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Ksh. 17,246/hr
1st lesson free
- Script Writing for Film
BAFTA winning screenwriter available for online lessons in the craft and feedback on your works in progress.
- Script Writing for Film
Lesson location
Recommended
Hope is a respected member of our tutor community. She is highly recommended for her commitment and the quality of her lessons. An excellent choice to progress with confidence.
About Hope
I am a writer-director driven by cinematic storytelling. I love all kinds of films, from the ephemeral artistic visions to multiplex popcorn movies and anything and everything in between. I believe in principles of on screen storytelling, how to use them, and when to break them. I believe we learn how to further the art form by analysing what has gone before, and I understand that analysing produced work is not a roadmap to creating something original. I believe ideas are our currency, and anyone who writes is a writer.
About the lesson
- All Levels
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
My lessons are 60 minutes long, and can be tailored to the needs of the student. I can provide lessons on formatting, short screenplays, feature film development, 3 act and 8 sequence structures and am also happy to work with writers specifically on developing their works in progress. My focus is to nurture the writer and to help them find a way to tell their stories, rather than to impose external templates on their work. However I am also attentive to the industry expectations and will challenge writers to consider where their scripts are likely to find homes right from the early stages of development. I received my MFA from Columbia University's prestigious filmmaking programme and have worked as a screenwriter and director since graduation in 2007. I have taught in multiple institutions as both a visiting lecturer and a part time instructor and have a good oversight of the courses available to UK students. I have been commissioned to write many feature length screenplays, as well as some TV pilots. I won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Screenwriter for my debut feature film, The Levelling, and was recently nominated for Best Director for my hybrid theatre/film version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde which I created for the National Theatre of Scotland. Working as a director as well as a writer means I am always thinking about the cinematic potential for stories and how the words on the page can best translate to create the vision of the creators.
Recommendations
Recommendations come from relatives, friends and acquaintances of the teacher
Hope is a hugely talented screenwriter and filmmaker. She’s also worked with me as a mentor and tutor to our international and UK postgraduate students at Screen Academy Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University over a number of years. She’s smart, focussed, direct and encouraging. An excellent support if you are serious about taking your script to a professional level.
Brilliant, caring and inspiring.
Hope is an amazing filmmaker and a fantastic teacher with a gift for helping others understand her work artistically and technically. I am a professor at the University of Colorado Cinema Studies department and teach a course in Edinburgh every year. I have been lucky enough to bring Hope in as a guest lecturer for the course multiple times, and it is always a highlight of the students’ experience.
Hope is friendly, clear and inspiring. He work itself is personal and draws from the locality and she really helps the students understand how she translates her ideas to the screen- which in turn helps them understand how to translate their own ideas to their projects. She does so in an encouraging and approachable manner as well.
I give Hope my highest recommendation possible.
Geoff (Associate Professor of Film Production)I am a Professor of Film at Exeter University, and know Hope in her capacity as a filmmaker and as an occasional tutor for us. Hope brings a lot of experience to this role, and is a fantastic communicator who combines expertise, focus and encouragement to this work. When teaching on my modules at Exeter University the students have benefitted hugely from her skills, smart and sympathetic guidance, understanding of the film industry, interest in creative practice, and knowledge of what makes a great script and ultimately a film that will excite and entertain audiences. She is full of energy, funny and kind, and genuinely interested in people’s creative work. I recommend her wholeheartedly.
Hope has been crucial to my development as a screenwriter, and it's thanks to her brilliantly constructive criticism, approachable and collaborative nature, and keen instinct for what makes a script leap off the page that I now have two projects in development. I couldn't recommend her more.
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Rates
Rate
- Ksh. 17,246
Pack prices
- 5h: Ksh. 86,232
- 10h: Ksh. 172,464
free lessons
The first free lesson with Hope will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 30mins
online
- Ksh. 17,246/h
Details
If you would like feedback on a script, you will be charged for an hour of prep time as well as the hour we spend together talking.
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