As a writer you have the power to make your audience laugh whenever it pleases you, cause grown men to cry shamelessly, keep millions on the edge of reason, prevent couch junkies to switch channels, and grip people with fear.
The storyteller is the puppet master of emotions, the dictator of reason, and can make anything happen in a fictional reality where everything is possible and extreme gratification is your only goal, and the audience’s ultimate payoff and reward.
If you want to write your story, The Writing Studio is offering a 50% discount on The Write Journey course, which is done via email correspondence.
The Write Journey is an interactive, intimate and introspective journey into the world of story, empowering writers to take ownership of the creative journey, and creative expression.
Every Thursday throughout May, a new play from the Nation Theatre in London will premiere on YouTube at 8pm SA time, available to watch for free, for a week. You can watch the thrilling Anthony & Cleopatra until 14 May, withInua Ellams’ smash-hit play Barber Shop Chronicles from 14 May. Read more
Opera lovers can indulge on a fantastic season of free streamings from the Met Opera:From the mythic isles of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, featuring Jessye Norman (pictured) and Kathleen Battle, and the stormy landscape of Thomas Adès’s The Tempest, to the neon lights of Michael Mayer’s Las Vegas Rigoletto and the biblical setting of Verdi’s Nabucco, this week’s lineup offers passage to several of opera’s most distinctive destinations. Another highlight is this Friday’s Viewers’ Choice stream, a 1982 telecast of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor starring the legendary Joan Sutherland. Read more
Learn how to tell stories and make films from the world’s master filmmakers and screenwriters
If you want to learn how to be screenwriter and filmmaker, why not learn from the best.
The Writing Studio’s exclusive in depth articles on filmmaking and screenwriting show how inspiration instills passion, how ideas are born, nurtured and realised, how the conventions of genre are challenged, themes explored to its fullest, and characters brought to life.
These personal notes from producers reveal to what extent filmmakers and screenwriters will go to realise their dreams and make the most of each story they tell.
Develop the Write Attitude with The Writing Studio
During the last 20 Years The Writing Studio has taken many leading filmmakers in South Africa from first idea to success on the big screen locally and internationally.
If you want to sign up for one of our courses in creative writing or screenwriting, or want to have your screenplay / manuscript evaluated or edited, send us an email.
