Improve Your Screenwriting With Artificial Intelligence (Ai)

Learn to use AI to spark ideas, improve plotlines, enhance characters, and optimize your writing, editing and pitching.

What you'll learn

Learn how to use AI to generate new ideas, expand existing ideas, and bring characters to life.

Acquire the skills to use AI to identify potential flaws and make improvements to stories.

Develop the ability to write instructions and questions that maximize the potential of AI

Understand how AI can be used to create more engaging stories, and how to use it to deliver them to the industry.

Requirements

A basic understanding of the screenwriting process and the fundamentals of storytelling.

An openness to exploring and experimenting with AI, although no prior experience or knowledge of AI is needed.

Description

This course is designed to help you understand how to use AI to improve your writing process. From idea generation to presenting ideas to the industry, you’ll learn how to use AI to test ideas, give notes, bring characters to life, challenge assumptions, suggest alternatives, keep your writing fresh, and remove the hassle of pitches and emails. With practical tips and real-world examples, you’ll understand how to use AI to write better scripts and improve your chances of success in the industry. Your tutor, Stephen Follows, is a highly-regarded film industry analyst, screenwriter and expert in using AI to help screenwriters. He has a development deal (on WGA terms) with a working producer and is the co-host of the 'Authored by AI' podcast.No experience is needed – we’ll take you right from “What is AI?” through to empowering you to use it in your writing the same day. Spark ideas. AI can help generate an endless supply of ideas for you to evaluate and develop, allowing you to stay in control and find the perfect seed of an idea for your project.Give notes. AIs are much better at providing insightful feedback than they are at actually screenwriting. So take advantage of this first-pass script editor to give you notes on your work and suggest areas for redrafting.Bring to life. You can imbue the AI with the features of your characters and engage them in conversation. The AI won’t write them as well as you, but they will add a dimension of reality as you chat with your creations.Challenge assumptions. AIs can provide new points of view, highlight plot holes and free you from pigeonholes you didn't even know you’re in.Suggest alternatives. AIs can generate a range of options for a given scene, so you can pick the best one and move on - no more spending hours in the writer’s room trying to come up with a better idea.Keep it fresh. AIs can suggest ways of subverting expectations and providing new aspects to well told stories. These notes and ideas will help speed up the process of ensuring your writing is always unique and fresh.Remove hassle. Many writers struggle with writing pithy pitches, tasty taglines or even enthusiastic emails to industry executives. Whatever parts of the process you don’t enjoy can be offloaded to AI for a first draft.The course includes ready-made AI instructions that you can copy and paste in order to use straight away.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Module 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Meet your instructor

Lecture 3 How to get the most out of the course

Lecture 4 About you

Section 2: Module 2 - Introduction to AI

Lecture 5 Module 2 Introduction

Lecture 6 What is Artificial Intelligence?

Lecture 7 How to access AI as a writer

Lecture 8 Meet GPT-3

Lecture 9 Meet ChatGPT

Lecture 10 What is it physically like to "co-write" with an AI?

Lecture 11 A useful metaphor to think about AI

Lecture 12 The power of the prompt

Section 3: Module 3 - Creation and Ideation

Lecture 13 Module 3 Introduction

Lecture 14 Past / present tense

Lecture 15 Give it a perspective

Lecture 16 Set the guidelines

Lecture 17 Define success

Section 4: Module 4 - Expansion and Worldbuilding

Lecture 18 Module 4 Introduction

Lecture 19 Loop, loop, loop

Lecture 20 Key elements

Lecture 21 It's bullshitting

Lecture 22 Memory issues

Lecture 23 Fighting with the AI

Section 5: Module 5 - Notes and Feedback

Lecture 24 Module 5 Introduction

Lecture 25 Ask for notes

Lecture 26 See different points of view

Lecture 27 Identify problems

Lecture 28 Pick between ideas

Lecture 29 Comparing your notes to that of an AI

Section 6: Module 6 - Re-writing and Transforming

Lecture 30 Module 6 Introduction

Lecture 31 Incorporating notes

Lecture 32 Subversion

Lecture 33 Diversity and inclusion

Lecture 34 Cleaning up

Section 7: Module 7 - The Industry

Lecture 35 Module 7 Introduction

Lecture 36 Summing up

Lecture 37 Taglines

Lecture 38 Tailoring the pitch

Lecture 39 Mispitching

Lecture 40 Communication

Professional screenwriters looking improve their writing process, and to understand how their jobs may evolve.,Aspiring screenwriters looking to get ahead of the curve and speed up their career trajectory.,Anyone who want to write a script and wants support in turning their ideas into screenplays.,Script editors looking to improve their notes giving process.,Producers and directors wanting to explore how AI can help them to find new stories