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This Is The Website In Support of Mark Sevi's Scriptwriting Classes.
REGISTRATION FOR ALL CLASSES OPENS IN JANUARY 2021
INTRO CLASS is for those who have limited or no experience with scriptwriting.
Even if you've written a script or two you wil benefit from this class since it covers not just scriptwriting, but all aspects of writing and story. It's a programmed course to take you from zero to working on your original idea in eight weeks.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED CLASS is a workshop primarily.
Your ongoing work is submitted for peer critique each week. Those who have taken the Intro Class move into a more extended-type of workshop that has some terrific fellow students who are also working on their original material.
We also break down a film each week in both classes and discuss plot, theme, character, etc.
Need More Info? Please use the contact form on this home page.
WINTER 2021 SEMESTER
INTRO CLASS
February 4th - April 1st
No Classes Spring Break, Week of March 22nd
You don't have to know anything about scriptwriting to take this class.
In eight, short weeks you will go from zero to working on your own script pages.
The class is formatted to help the student create pages immediately and then build on previous work to continue that growth in a fun, dynamic lecture and peer-driven workshop.
Students are given all the tools they need to understand and implement scriptwriting techniques each week.
<p><em>Due to pandemic and college closure, temporarily being offered privately</em></p>
INTERMEDIATE CLASS
January 26th - April 6th
No Classes Spring Break, Week of March 22nd
Students in this class have continued from the Intro class, are continuing students from a previous semester of Intermediate Class, or possibly are new and have a finished script or some work in progress. In any case, the class focuses on workshopping material.
Join a terrific group of writers in a peer-review workshop directed by Mark in order to chisel your work each week into rock hard perfection.
Script pages are presented and reviewed EACH WEEK! Up to ten pages per session per student allows for a student to put through an entire script for review PER SEMESTER!
If you need specific information on:
- How to finish your script
- How to fix your script
- How to do anything script- or film-oriented This class is for you
Due to pandemic and college closure, temporarily being offered privately
SPRING 2021 SEMESTER
INTRO CLASS
Dates TBD
You don't have to know anything about scriptwriting to take this class.
In eight, short weeks you will go from zero to working on your own script pages.
The class is formatted to help the student create pages immediately and then build on previous work to continue that growth in a fun, dynamic lecture and peer-driven workshop.
Students are given all the tools they need to understand and implement scriptwriting techniques each week.
INTERMEDIATE CLASS
Dates TBD
Students in this class have continued from the Intro class, are continuing students from a previous semester of Intermediate Class, or possibly are new and have a finished script or some work in progress. In any case, the class focuses on workshopping material.
Join a terrific group of writers in a peer-review workshop directed by Mark in order to chisel your work each week into rock hard perfection.
Script pages are presented and reviewed EACH WEEK! Up to ten pages per session per student allows for a student to put through an entire script for review PER SEMESTER!
If you need specific information on:
- How to finish your script
- How to fix your script
- How to do anything script- or film-oriented This class is for you
Unleash the Inner You!
Writing is a journey, an exploration, like when you first went to college or got married or started a new job. The difference is that writing is also a deep, inner journey to self-discovery; to places you couldn't touch but you always knew were there, hidden, just waiting to be expressed.
Orange Coast College and Irvine Valley College Department of Community Education offer a unique, not-for-credit and hands-on practical screenwriting course from professional screenwriter Mark Sevi (credits here) where students learn scriptwriting techniques and student work is evaluated in a dynamic workshop on the basis of both its artistic and commercial merit.
The courses are guided, the workshops fun, the learning exponential!
Stop thinking about writing that movie or TV series in your head and actually do it!
Mark Sevi is a professional screenwriter who has sold 34 scripts, 19 of which have been produced into film. One of this films, "Devil's Knot", is based on true events in West Memphis, Arkansas in the early nineties. It was released in 2014 starring Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. (IMDB)
He has been teaching for 15+ years and his classes have been featured in articles and seminars.
He is also the founder and president of the Orange County Screenwriters Association, a not-for-profit organziation that organizes film events and speakers and brings resources to all filmmakers in Orange County and beyond.
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