Series Writing
TV series writing workshop Bologna, 1 - 29 March 2025
The workshop is intended as a creative writing course focusing on TV series, now considered a staple feature of our culture. Starting from the analysis of the current television landscape and its evolution, the course outlines a few key points of series writing: time management, character construction, the hero’s journey. The participants will thus acquire the basic tools required to analyse, write and produce a television series, and at the end of the course they put themselves to the test by trying to create their own concept for a TV series.
In collaboration with Stefania Carini.
What is Seriality?
- Saturday 1 March 2025 at 10:30 - 12:30
What is the difference between a series and a serial? And between a sitcom and a drama? And how has television storytelling changed over the years? The brief history of TV production, analysing current narrative forms and genres.
Who is the Hero/Heroine?
- Saturday 8 March 2025 at 10:30 - 12:30
No story exists without a leading character: how do you invent a great hero or heroine? Should they already be a hero, or is it a narrator's job to show how one becomes a hero or heroine? Theory and practice in the construction of the leading and supporting characters. First surprise writing exercise!
What Journey Awaits Us?
- Saturday 15 March 2025 at 10:30 - 12:30
There is no story without a path, a quest, a journey. How is a story structured, what are the elements we need to keep in mind, what structure can we use? An outline of the fundamental aspects of the hero/heroine's journey and its possible variations.
Mettersi alla prova
- Saturday 29 March 2025 at 10:30 - 12:30
Giornata finale di laboratorio: discussione insieme dell'elaborato finale (scritto nelle due settimane precedenti) assegnato in precedenza. Si tratta di un breve soggetto di una pagina, che viene discusso con l'insegnante per capire debolezze e potenzialità.
