AAtelier

Curriculum

Real lessons

Methods from Iowa workshops, screen sequences, and dual-genre practice — each with a timed exercise.

Lesson texts stay in English. The desk, margin, and readers follow your language.

Iowa

Literary workshop

  • Silent author
  • Book-length thesis
  • Voice over market

USC / UCLA / AFI

Screen sequence

  • Feature, spec, pilot
  • Forced rewrites
  • Industry literacy

Michener

Dual-genre

  • Primary plus secondary
  • Three funded years
  • Two machines, one writer

UEA / Arvon

British tutorial

  • One compressed year
  • Tutor and a house
  • Literary citizenship

La Fémis / Denmark

Conservatory rewrite

  • Concours under jury
  • Department isolation
  • Writer beside the director

EICTV / Maisha

Another politics of want

  • Whose desire is on camera
  • Documentary plus fiction
  • Tell it or no one will

Foundation

A scene is a change in power

12 minutes

The rule

If nobody wants anything that another person can refuse, you have atmosphere, not a scene. Literary programs hide this inside tension. Screen programs write it on the board: want versus obstacle.

Do this

Write eight lines. Character A wants an object, a confession, or a door. Character B will not give it. End one beat later than you want to.

Test

Cover the last line. Can a stranger still say what changed? If not, the scene is still a sketch.