John Yorke's Story for screenwriting: advanced structure

Discover the essential elements every story needs to transfix an audience on this online professional development course from BAFTA-winning storyteller John Yorke – and how to apply the principles to your own drama scripts.

This practical industry-led training is based on John Yorke’s bestselling book on story structure, Into the Woods.

John has trained some of the industry's most successful screenwriters (working on shows from The Crown to Killing Eve). They have nominations and wins for a range of awards, including an Emmy, Oscar, and BAFTA.

Who it's for

This course is suitable if you:

• Are involved in developing drama, including producers, directors, writers, editors, technicians and executives
• Are new to writing drama and want to learn how to plan and structure your stories
• Would like to sharpen your screenwriting skills and master story structure
• Want to learn how to see the underlying framework behind all stories everywhere
• Need to discover why your stories aren’t working – and how to fix them
• Want to gain the confidence to create your own stories
• Would like to find out how to write a professional treatment
• Are looking for a CPD (Continuing Professional Development) course

What it covers

Over four months you’ll:

• Sharpen your screenwriting skills in a small group of like-minded writers
• Explore the principles of five-act structure, learn to spot why stories aren’t working and how to fix them
• Develop an industry-standard treatment for your original TV, film or stage drama, which you'll pitch to John and his team. 

Bursary applicable

There are ScreenSkills bursaries available to cover some or all of the costs of this training course - including travel, accommodation, subsistence, care or disability access support to attend this course. To find out more about the support you may be eligible for, click the button below:

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About this listing

This training course is not funded or commissioned by ScreenSkills, but has been reviewed to ensure it is meeting agreed standards such as industry-led diversity targets, appropriate business insurance, and evidence of previous quality training provision.