If you have something you’re working on, or even just an idea of a script you’d like to write this workshop is for you.

Writer and freelance script-editor Darren Rapier will take you through the process of screenwriting: how to develop your idea/outline or script into a workable professional screenplay. 

This one day session will cover all aspects of story development, formatting, structure, character and plot; as well as how to pitch your finished screenplay. 

There will be a 45 minute lunch break. Attendees are asked to bring their own lunch. 

Ticket price is £80 and £65 for people in full time education and Bafta Crew members. To obtain this discount, email [email protected].

About the Session Leader

Darren trained at Rose Bruford College and has written for film, television, radio and theatre. 

Companies he has worked for include the BBC, National Youth Theatre, The Royal Albert Hall, Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre, The London Bubble, the Half Moon and Film London. 

He has written a number of short films, as well as small and large scale theatre pieces, some of which he has also directed. He is a writer on Doctors and EastEnders for BBC1 and was a writer on the BBC Asian Network radio soap Silver Street. 

In 2010 he visited India with Sci-Fi London to run writing workshops in Mumbai and Ahmadabad on writing Science-Fiction films. 

Darren currently teaches for various companies, including Film and TV at Rose Bruford College, screenwriting at the BFI and is a visiting lecturer on the MA writing course at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.’