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Ronnie
Robinson

teaches screenwriting

Turn your imagination into a movie or television series. Learn story structure, character development and more, from fade in: to fade out:

Ronnie Robinson, screenwriter and teacher
Screenwriter

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Sc. 01 Int. What you will learn — day

A script is built, not found.

Ext. the world

Create the world of your script

Turn a simple city into a dream land, an underwater realm, a jungle of weird creatures, or a worse nightmare filled with chaos.

Int. the people

Create characters

Every script needs characters that draw in the reader and the viewer. Build people an audience will follow.

Int. the shape

Bring it to life in three acts

Step by step story structure, so the world and the people you built hold together from the first page to the last.

Sc. 02 Int. The course ladder — continuous

Six courses.
Four are free.

Start with formatting, which costs nothing. Work up to the three act structure, where you get a read of your own draft. Every course is video, taught in order, and you can stop wherever you like.

01

Basic format structure

How to format a screenplay. One video. Start here if you have never written one.

1 videoStart here
Free
02

Character and scene development

Every script needs the characters to draw in the reader and the viewers.

6 videos
$9.99 – $19.99
03

Three act structure

Step by step story structure, plus live chat and a read of your script’s draft.

3 videosLive chatDraft read
$49.99 – $99.99
04

Rewrite and draft writing

Editing your script’s draft into a finished script.

Video
Free
05

Copyrighting and protection

Copyrighting and protecting your work.

Video
Free
06

Getting your script noticed, then sold

Getting your scripts seen so they can be sold.

Video
Free
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Sc. 03 Int. The workshop — day

Some things
you cannot
learn alone.

A video will teach you the rules. Reading your pages out loud to someone who writes for a living is what shows you whether they work.

Workshops

  • Bring pages you are stuck on and work them through
  • Daily exercises that prevent writer’s block
  • Storyboarding, made simple
  • Pitch your script to a producer or an agent in a few easy steps
Needs Ronnie: dates, format, location or online, price, group size Ask about the next one

Sc. 04 Int. Who is teaching — night

Ronnie

(to camera)

I’m a professional screenwriter with over 12 years of writing experience, writing dozens of completed scripts. From drama, action and science fiction to fantasy, I provide students with the writing development tools needed from fade in: to fade out:

12 years writing · dozens of completed scripts · drama, action, science fiction, fantasy

Needs Ronnie: credits, produced or optioned work, festivals, where he is based

The work itself

A correctly formatted screenplay page showing scene headings, action and dialogue
Correct format. Slug line, action, dialogue, transition. Course 01.
A screenplay page marked up in red pen correcting formatting mistakes
The same page, marked up. Every note is a rule you only learn by breaking it.
A produced screenplay page annotated with study notes in the margins
Reading produced pages closely is how structure stops being theory.
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Sc. 05 Int. Get in touch — day

Start with
the free one.

Formatting costs nothing and takes one video. If it is useful, the rest is there. If you would rather just ask him something first, the form does that.

Ask Ronnie

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Six courses · four of them cost nothing

Start the free course