Course Outlines

Many of our authors teach at film schools around the world. Here are some course outlines that they have graciously provided.
Feel free to use them them in designing your classes.

• WRITING :: GENERAL
  • Between the Scenes (Jeffrey Michael Bays)
  • The Writer's Advantage: A Toolkit for Mastering Your Genre (Laurie Scheer)
  • Riding the Alligator (Pen Densham)
  • Inner Drives: How to Create and Write Characters (Pamela Jaye Smith)
  • Story Line (Jen Grisanti)
  • Stealing Fire From the Gods (James Bonnet)
  • Talk the Talk: A Dialogue Workshop for Scriptwriters (Penny Penniston)
  • Psychology for Screenwriters (William Indick, Ph.D.)
  • The Story Solution (Eric Edson)
  • Dan O'Bannon's Dynamic Structure: A Course Outline for Instructors
• WRITING :: SPECIFIC
  • The Virgin's Promise (Kim Hudson)
  • Symbols • Images • Codes (Pamela Jaye Smith)
  • The Power of the Dark Side (Pamela Jaye Smith)
  • Writing for Prime Time Dramatic TV (Pamela Douglas)
  • Reality TV Basics (Troy DeVolld)
  • Story Line: How to Add Fiction to your Truth (Jen Grisanti)
  • Writing the Killer Crime Story (Jennifer Dornbush)
• SCREENWRITING
  • The Three Wells of Screenwriting (Matthew Kalil)
• SELLING
  • The Script Selling Game (Kathie Fong Yoneda)
• PRODUCING
  • Syllabus-Film and Video Budgets (Deke Simon)
• DIRECTING
  • Directing Feature Films and The Film Director's Bag of Tricks (Mark Travis)
  • Casting for Directors (Hester Schell)
• PRE-PRODUCTION
  • Word to Image (Marcie Begleiter)
  • Storyboarding (Marcie Begleiter)
• PRODUCTION
  • Setting Up Your Scenes (Richard D. Pepperman)
• PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
  • Film Production Management 101, 2nd Ed. (Deborah Patz)
• POST-PRODUCTION
  • Great Cuts (Gael Chandler)
  • Cut by Cut Editing (Gael Chandler)
  • Sound Design (David Sonnenschein)
• CAREER
  • Hollywood Game Plan (Carole Kirschner)
• NICHE
  • Byte-Sized Television (Ross Brown)
  • Conquering YouTube (Jay Miles)
  • Contemporary American Film (Jennifer Van Sijll)