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An introduction to Week 1

Michael Lengsfield introduces the course and gives an overview for Week 1.

Michael Lengsfield, Lead Educator, welcomes you and introduces the course.

In the first week, we’ll take a broad look at story and what makes a screen story, developing our own stories and then consider plots and story structure.

We hope that you enjoy this brief two-week look into the thinking behind the construction of a screenplay.

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