with Peter Jinks on Friday 25th to Saturday 26th, November 2011
both days from 10:30 am until 5:30 pm

This workshop will introduce participants to the basic building blocks of a narrative: that of characterisation, setting and story premise. They will be encouraged to refine their own story ideas through a discussion about plot and genre, followed by exercises where students will be expected to pitch, that is verbally ‘sell’ their story ideas to one another.

Day Two will be spent exploring the principles of the classic three act story structure, which students will then apply to their idea, building towards a short document or ‘outline’ that describes the narrative as they see it. The day will conclude with a discussion about literary adaptation and how the mediums of book and film differ from a writer’s perspective.

The development of a narrative is a necessary skill in any area of media production and aquiring these skill will be an advantage in many areas of work where the communication with other people is an essential part of the job.

Peter Jinks is an award-winning author, screenwriter and journalist. He has written various screenplays for the UK film industry, including the BBC, and is currently working on a literary adaptation. But he is better known for one of his novels, Hallam Foe, which was turned into a successful movie with Jamie Bell (The Adventures of Tintin, King Kong, Jane Eyre, Billy Elliot) in the leading role. It went on to win a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and garnered widespread international acclaim.

Jinks started out as a newspaper reporter and an investigation he wrote for The Scotsman newspaper won him the UK Young Journalist of the Year Award in 1995.
He continues to submit articles from Sicily where he currently lives which have appeared in London newspapers including The Observer, The Sunday Times and Condé Nast Traveller magazine.