Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/25/2025
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Categories
Director: Vicki Baum
Length: 12-hour four-week workshop
Class Notes: This course includes a pre-class and weekly homework assignments. Students must have home recording capabilities.
When telling a story in a 30 or 60 second commercial script, you don’t have time to dilly-dally (it’s a legit word youngins… look it up). To be competitive, it’s crucial for you to understand the structure, rhythm and emotional shifts – called beats – within the story being told. Being a unit of action within a script that typically signals a shift in energy, mood or direction, beats help build tension, reveal character motivations and drive the story forward. Hone your abilities to expertly recognize when one beat ends and another begins, and the significance of these transitions. Additionally, you’ll learn how to create a “beat map”, a written outline that details the progression of beats within a script assisting you to track the emotional journey and making it easier to bring the words up off the page. A technique that makes your life easier? We’re here for that!
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