This November, Write and Sell the HOT Script at Raindance

Discover the insider trade secrets that are designed to keep outsiders from breaking into the industry. Find out shortcuts to success, and how to map out a hugely rewarding career, learning from the success and failure of others. Learn how to maximise your personal resources in order to create an image and mystique about yourself and your work.

Do this and more at founder Elliot Grove's forthcoming Raindance workshop. On Day One, you’ll learn everything about the writing process, from creating memorable characters to building story structure. Day Two will move forward to a thorough breakdown of the industry as it relates to your script, ranging from techniques for garnering good coverage to the ultimate writer’s task: finding an agent.

Date/Time: 15/16 November, 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Price: £250 + VAT
Location: Central London

Full details @ Raindance.co.uk


Raindance Offers NEW Cinematography Course

This is the course for future Lighting Cameramen and Directors of Photography as well as for anyone else who wants to learn how to create the right visuals to emotionally solidify their screenplay.

What happens after extensive talks with Director about his project? Where to start technically? What is the best format for your film? How to choose right equipment? What do you need and how to prepare for the job? Filmmaking is about teamwork -- how do you become a team player? Here you can learn how to transfer the images in your head to film stock or a tape. You’ll learn about the psychology of framing, film stocks, light filtering and metering, variances in HD formats, exposure and coding for video, and much more.

Instructor Zoran Veljkovic was classically trained in Eastern Europe, where he studied the art and craft of cinematography with leading European film-makers. Continuously in demand as a DoP, he has worked with directors such as Peter Howitt (Sliding Doors).

Date/Time: available early December either evenings or 2-day weekend
Price: £375 + VAT
Location: Central London

Full details @ Raindance.co.uk


Raindance TV Writers’ Lab

This course looks at the essentials of story structure in television drama.

Students bring a project to the class, which will be workshopped in the group each session from its initial ‘idea stage’ down to the writing of individual scenes.

By the end of the course each student will have a proposal or treatment for their television drama idea. This can be an idea for a series, serial, single drama, two-parter, etc. The course will concentrate on series structure, but will be flexible depending on the class – sessions will include “the first episode”, a history of the changing nature of British television, how to thread your episodes into a coherent series, and how to write in treatment format.

We will use examples from a wide range of British and American television dramas (including Desperate Housewives, The Shield, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, City of Vice, Waking the Dead, The Tudors, etc.)

Tutor Clive Bradley has written extensively for television. Most recently he was the lead writer for City of Vice (Channel Four).

Date/Time: Nov 5/6,12.13,19,20,26th, 6:30 – 9:30 PM
Price: £195 + VAT
Location: Central London

Full details @ Raindance.co.uk