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  • Proposed syllabus for Qalam

    Proposed syllabus for Qalam

    Module 1

    1. Concept/story idea: – what makes a good concept/idea for television? What are the elements necessary for an idea/concept to become a winning story? What is a concept/idea? How is it different from a full-fledged story? High-end concepts. Examples of recent television successes of good concepts/ideas.
    2. Concept to story (The process): – how is a concept/idea developed into a full-fledged story? What elements are required in creating a good story? Define story in two lines. Create characters for your story; create obstacles, dramatic points in the story. The plot: – Its importance, twists in plots. Eg’s of plots twists from current and old successful soaps. Television stories end? If they do then how to end a story?
    Different kinds of story: – The daily soap story, the series story, the comedy, the thriller story, Tv mini series stories and stories for TV films. How are they different?
    3. Story Elements: – Characters: – How to create interesting characters? What
    Makes characters tick? Different kinds of characters, the protagonist (hero/heroine) the antagonist, subsidiary characters, relief characters. Character stories/biographies. Polarisation of characters in a story, changing equation among characters.

    Module – 2

    1. Teleplay: – elements of teleplay: – How to weave story into an interesting teleplay? What is teleplay? How is it different from story? What elements constitute interesting teleplay? Eg’s of recent episodes from hit serials? Examining the reason for their success. What is a sub plot? How is it important to the story and teleplay? How to weave subplots into main story and teleplay.
    2. Graphing of story for teleplay: – Creation of mile stones/Plot points in the story. Running parallel tracks of subplots along with main story. Interweaving of subplots with milestones of main story and plot points.
    3. Difference in teleplay of various kinds of stories: – how to write teleplay for comedy, daily soap, weekly soap, mini series, one hour episode, Tv film.
    4. Teleplay of an episode: – what constitutes episodic teleplay? Creating of parallel tracks and its importance in weaving teleplay of episodes.
    5. Cliffhanger end/The hook: – how to create cliff hangar ends to episodes? Its importance.

    Module – 3

    1. The importance of scene: – what is a scene? How to create scenes for teleplay? Breaking of individual tracks into scenes. How do scenes lead to story forward? The opening scene, the end scene, the filler scene. The Dana dalna scene. Its importance. The recurring theme scene, its importance. Character exposition scene. What is character exposition? Its importance! Plot exposition scene, its importance. Examples of all the above concepts.
    2. The dialogue: – what is dialogue? Importance of dialogues. What elements constitute good dialogue? Dialogues in character exposition. Dialogues for different genres like comedy, soap, thriller and Tv film.

    Module – 4

    1. Assignments: – create a story from an idea/concept, create characters, develop its plot points and overall graph. Write an episodic teleplay. Write dialogues for an episode.

    The entire course should be of 12 weeks with twice a week to thrice a week lectures. Each module will take up 3 weeks and 6 to 9 sessions.

  • Qalam – the scriptwriting course

    Qalam – the scriptwriting course

    After a series of successful scriptwriting workshops, Indiantelevision Dot Com now offers aspiring writers a much needed full fledged, well rounded and complete script writing course.

    Qalam, a three month course, scheduled to begin on 2 August 2003 will be guided by a governing board that comprises Nimbus Communications CEO Dr Akash Khurana, Siddhant Cinevision creative director Vinod Ranganath, Indian Television Dot Com CEO Anil Wanvari, television creative professional Aditya Seth and writer-director Vijay Victor Acharya.

    The course will boast a faculty that includes television luminaries like noted scriptwriters and directors including Sanjay Upadhyay, Ishan Trivedi, BM Vyas, Ashwani Dhir and many more. Aditya Seth will be the course co-ordinator for Qalam.

    The television scriptwriting course has been born of the belief that the industry needs to absorb trained writers, just as scribes too, need to be tutored in the science and art of scriptwriting for television.

    The Qalam syllabus has been broken down into three modules, crafted specially to cater to different skill sets that need to be mastered by the students. In the first module, trainers will initiate students in the rudiments of story ideas that are relevant to television, the different kinds of concepts that work for the medium and the creation of the characters that go to make up a complete story. The second module will deal with how to weave a story into an interesting teleplay, the graphing of a story for the teleplay, the difference in the teleplay for different kinds of stories and on how to create the cliff hangers that define a teleplay.

     

    The third module will deal with the construction of the scene and dialogue. The fourth module will have students creating a story from an idea/concept, creating the characters, developing plot points and overall graph. They will be required to write an episodic teleplay and dialogues for an episode.

    The course will run for 12 weeks with three interactive sessions per week. The weekend sessions will be longer, and the focus will be to illustrate the educational experience with the help of video sessions. Additionally, participants will be urged to take part in the discussions, ideation and analyses. Interactivity will be the keyword for the entire course.

    Each module of the course will take up to three weeks and six to nine sessions. Admission to the course will be decided on the basis of an entrance test aspirants will have to answer, that will test their language, perception and ideation skills. The questionnaire will shortly be put up on www.indiantelevision.com along with eligibility criteria, course content and other details.

     

    The course fees have been set at Rs 10,000. Indian Television Dot Com is also looking for partners to offer scholarships/fellowships for deserving candidates who may not be able to afford the fees.