Lesson 1: Introduction/Meet Wanggo

What makes a story perfect for the screen? Get-to-know writer and teacher Wanggo Gallaga as he shares his personal background and journey in screenwriting while providing the overview and importance of the course.

Wanggo Gallaga

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Course Description

The backbone of every movie is a screenplay. Cinema has grown from the youngest of all media-based art forms into one of the largest and most influential platforms for self-expression and, even at the height of the pandemic, film and television productions have been in motion and continues to prove that the artform is as popular as ever.

In this course, you will learn all the fundamentals of writing a screenplay. From translating your idea into a visual narrative to understanding the importance of the relationship between the characters and the story’s plot, this course will combine established theories with real-world experience in the art of screenwriting in the country.

Track: Film

Format: Video On Demand

Date: April 1, 2022

Duration: 2.5 hours

  1. 01

    • What makes a story perfect for the screen? Get-to-know writer and teacher Wanggo Gallaga as he shares his personal background and journey in screenwriting while providing the overview and importance of the course.
  2. 02

    • The students will familiarize themselves with the five elements of story and how to maximize these elements in storytelling.
  3. 03

    • Dialogue is a crutch. A true scriptwriter presents the story visually. In this video, the students will learn to shift into thinking about stories by what can be seen and captured on film - the language of cinema.
  4. 04

    • In this video, you will learn how to breakdown the visual storytelling of the film.
  5. 05

    • A character’s goal in the film defines who they are to the audience. In this video, you will understand the importance of creating your character fully and the story will write itself
  6. 06

    • In this video, we will see how the previous lesson applies to a particular film.
  7. 07

    • Conflict is the heart of the story. There is no story without conflict. This video will elaborate on the significance and effect of conflict in a story.
  8. 08

    • In this video, we will see how the previous lesson applies to a particular film.
  9. 09

    • All stories have a beginning, middle and end. But as a French filmmaker has said, understanding structure is the most essential part of scriptwriting. The order in which events play out in your story is the heart of storytelling.
  10. 10

    • Dialogue should not be used to tell the story, instead they should help build the scene. There are only two functions of dialogue: to reveal the character or push the story forward. Crafting strong, believable dialogue is harder than you think.
  11. 11

    • The screenplay has direct implications towards production: the final cost of the movie; technical requirements, casting, production design and running time. The screenplay dictates how the movie will be executed.
  12. 12

    • DESCRIPTION RECAP, ENCOURAGEMENT & WORDS OF INSPIRATION