Screenwriting with Santiago Isla Part 1: Introduction to Screenplay Writing

🎬 Join Creative Writing Club and Film Club on this three-part series (happening every Thursday!) to learn the basics of screenwriting with Santiago Isla, screenplay editor, published book author, and musician.

This is the first session of the series, focused on learning the basic principles of screenwriting and the fundamental elements of a screenplay through short practical exercises.

📝 WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Screenwriting is a specific form of storytelling with its own rules, tools, and limitations. Unlike literary writing, a screenplay is not meant to be read as an end product, but to be transformed into images, sounds, actions, and performances. For this reason, screenwriters do not write thoughts or ideas, but decisions, conflicts, and visible behavior.

In this workshop, students will explore the fundamental elements of screenplay writing: action, character, conflict, time, space, dialogue, subtext, structure, and theme. Through the analysis of key scenes from both classic and contemporary films, students will learn how stories are built visually and dramatically, and how meaning arises from what characters do rather than from what they explain.

The course is conceived as an introduction to screenwriting. Throughout the workshop, students will work in small groups to develop and write the first draft of a short film screenplay, applying the tools and concepts discussed in class.

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Co-hosted with: IE Creativity Center , IE School of Humanities, IE Filmmaking Club SC

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