Script Screenwriting Analysis - Tutorials for Film and Theatre

For the professional screenwriter or producer and for first time writers and producers, everyone needs a script consultant at some stage. Until you have mastered the ability to question your own skills you need someone experienced to give you a dispassionate “read”. Most scripts are really only ideas for scripts or backgrounds with related incidents. Often screenwriters do not employ the logic inherent to the visual form; playwrights do not know how to use the stage. You will receive a written evaluation with specific insights and suggestions and and a follow up to clarify any questions.

Fees Upon Request

Script writing Screenwriting Consultant - Tutorials for Film and Theatre

The flexibility and privacy of the One-on-One Tutorials is preferable for some people. Whether you are a professional screenwriter or a beginning writer, mastering narrative for the screen story is a challenge. Developing a character for film requires different responsibilities as does dialogue, as does story and the plotting of story. Every story has it’s own logic and only by gaining control of the tools of the craft will you become proficient enough to handle their different demands. Organizing your material is often the stumbling block to successful scriptwriting. Telling a story depends very much on how the events in your story unfold, the choices you make and why.

Irv Bauer’s tutorials at both the professional level and at the beginning stage are about the core of the screenwriting process as well how the industry works from the writer’s POV.

Tutorial Fee Upon Request - Flexible 10 session schedule and payment plan.
Group Workshop - Spring/Fall (See New York Basic page)

The development of other people's writing skills has been central to Irv Bauer’s philosophy of striving for good work. The Development Stage is a sympathetic, professional non-performance environment in which the use of the elements of craft and logic, support and motivate writers to focus on their intention and rewrite their own work. Within two weeks in five sessions, Irv walks the writer through a continual process of questioning, with insights and stimulus, that allow the writer to make his or her own adjustments. The "non-performance workshop", is an invaluable part of the development period and is a process started by Irv Bauer at the Minneapolis Playwrights Lab in the early '80's.

"Non-Performance" is at the service of the writer as the last stage of work, pre-production. "Non-Performance" works for the writer and for the producer and is the missing link in the generally accepted approach to producing.

Fee for Development Stage Non-Performance Workshop: Upon Request