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This course is designed as a two-term program that develops skills for both live performance (term one) and screen/digital media (term two).
Examine techniques best used in contemporary story-making. Receive guidance and direction in a supportive studio environment and collaborate with actors to test your ideas for stage and screen.
Stage: Explore the principles of effective storytelling for a range of live performance contexts. Activate stories by developing action and dialogue. Hone your craft through redrafting, editing and collaborative peer review.
Screen: Examine small and large screen formats. Investigate style and genre, understand how to transform your ideas to create an effective plot, premise, protagonist and dramatic problem. Build your story into a narrative structure specific for your chosen format.
Stage: Explore the principles of effective storytelling for a range of live performance contexts. Activate stories by developing action and dialogue. Hone your craft through redrafting, editing and collaborative peer review.
Screen: Examine small and large screen formats. Investigate style and genre, understand how to transform your ideas to create an effective plot, premise, protagonist and dramatic problem. Build your story into a narrative structure specific for your chosen format.
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The course fee is $2,800. This is payable in two instalments across the course or upfront with a 10% discount ($2,520).
Entry to the Writers Studio is by interview only. Detailed interview information will be sent via downloadable link upon enrolment.
For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions.
NIDA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal, Gadigal, Dharawal and Dharug peoples, and we pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.
1300 450 417
215 Anzac Parade
Kensington NSW 2033
Australia
NIDA is supported by the Australian Government
