[Movie and Drama Storytelling in the AI Era: Designing Stories that Build Works and Careers] Chapter 1. Movie Planning

A class that transforms the ideas floating in your head into loglines ready for film and drama production!

Complete the first sentence of your work by using AI as an assistant writer!

A great work is not completed by a brilliant idea alone.
Planning is the process of organizing what kind of story that idea is, whose story it is, and why it must be created now. Planning is both the first sentence and the entire blueprint of a work. This stage must be solid so that the entire writing process—from synopsis to treatment and scriptwriting—does not falter.

Why aspiring K-video content creators need this lecture

With the dawn of the K-content and OTT era, the number of aspiring creators dreaming of becoming film screenwriters and drama writers is steadily increasing. However, once they actually start writing, they soon encounter realistic barriers.

Unless you major in film, playwriting, or creative writing, or attend a specialized educational institution, it is difficult to access systematic writing education, and offline classes carry a heavy burden in terms of cost, time, and location. Furthermore, since a career as a screenwriter does not guarantee an immediate stable income, there is also a psychological barrier that makes it difficult to readily invest significant time and money.

As a result, many aspiring writers attempt to teach themselves or start study groups with others who share the same dream. However, without knowing the proper sequence—from planning to structure, plot, character, genre, and scene writing—they often come to a standstill after only a few steps. For those who must balance their livelihood with writing, pushing through to complete a film or drama script alone after a day's work is by no means an easy feat.

This course was designed specifically to reflect that reality. It is structured so that you can take it online without any constraints of time or place, and the flow of writing techniques is organized step-by-step according to a film school's screenwriting curriculum. Furthermore, each chapter presents missions tailored to the actual writing process, and individual comments are provided through the bulletin board to help you check the points where you might get stuck while writing alone.

The entire curriculum follows the sequence of 'Film Planning → Structure → Plot & Character → Genre → Scene Techniques & Adaptation.' It is designed so that by following all the chapters, you can ultimately complete one feature film screenplay or, depending on your goal, a series proposal along with scripts for episodes 1 and 2.

Additionally, this course is operated on a chapter-by-chapter purchase basis. This reduces the burden of having to pay a large upfront cost and allows you to take the course step-by-step, starting from the stage you need. It is designed to lower the pressure of stopping midway and enable you to begin with the specific screenwriting stage you require right now.

This course is prepared for those who want to turn ideas they've been putting off with an "I'll write it someday" attitude into actual works, those who found it difficult to progress further through self-study alone, and those who do not want to give up their dreams of becoming a film or drama writer while balancing their livelihood with creation.

What you will learn in [Chapter 1: Movie Planning]

The goal of this chapter is simple:
To turn a vague idea into a one-sentence logline, the first blueprint of your work.

In Chapter 1, you will learn the following.

• Basic Concepts of Film Planning
  Learn why planning is the starting point of a project and what needs to be organized before writing a screenplay.

• How to develop themes and ideas into a work
  Discover questions, conflicts, and story possibilities that can pique the audience's interest from vague subject matter.

• How to Create a High Concept
  Check if your idea is instantly understandable and possesses genre appeal and differentiation.

• How to Write a Logline
  Summarize the protagonist, goal, obstacle, and irony into a single sentence, and complete the actual one-sentence logline for your work.

• How to Write a Planning Intent
  Summarize into persuasive sentences explaining why this work must be written, why it is needed now, and what kind of public appeal and differentiation it possesses.

• Planning Expansion Using References
  Learn how to use reference works not as mere objects of imitation, but as benchmarks to evaluate the direction and potential of your own work.

• How to use ChatGPT as an assistant writer
  We will conduct a prompt engineering class that can be used for discovering subject matter, organizing high concepts, generating logline candidates, and drafting planning intentions.

  
  

Deliverables after completing the course

Upon completing this course, you will be able to complete a one-sentence logline for your work based on the vague ideas that were only in your head.

It doesn't just end with the state of "having an idea"; you will be able to explain in a single sentence what kind of work this story is, whose story it is, and what genre and conflicts it involves. This logline will serve as the initial blueprint of your work, which can then be expanded into structure, plot, character, genre, and scenes.

Additionally, upon completing the course, you will have the following deliverables.

• A one-sentence logline for my work

• A planning flow that develops from Material → High Concept → Logline

• Basic framework for writing planning intentions

• How to check the direction of your work using references

• Planning prompts for using ChatGPT as an assistant writer

• Chapter 1 Review E-book PDF

The goal of Chapter 1 is not to write a finished screenplay all at once.
Rather, it is to determine if the work is something you can write until the end and to create a solid first sentence that can be expanded into the next stages.

Recommended for these people

This course is prepared for those who want to write movie screenplays and drama scripts but feel overwhelmed about where to begin.

• Those who dream of becoming a film or drama writer but have not yet received systematic training in screenwriting.

• Video producers from other fields who wish to enter the film and drama industry

• Writers of other genres, such as webtoons, web novels, or pure literature, who wish to adapt their own works into screenplays or series

• Those who have ideas in their head but are unable to organize them into a logline or a proposal

• Those who feel it is difficult to move forward any further through self-study or study groups alone

• Those who want to create the first sentence of their work for contests, production company submissions, or portfolios

• Those who want to experience an online screenwriting class at the level of a film major course

• Those who want to complete their work step-by-step while balancing their creative pursuits with their livelihood.

• Those who want to use ChatGPT not as a simple ghostwriting tool, but as an assistant writer that helps with planning and ideation

• Those who plan story-based content such as web novels, webtoons, and video content

This course is a class that helps you organize the vague feeling of "wanting to write someday" into the first sentence of a plan that can actually move you to the next step.

This may not be suitable for the following people

This course is not about AI writing the work for you or creating a finished scenario in a short period of time. It is based on the premise that the writer personally judges, selects, and goes through the process of rewriting.

• Those who lack the fundamentals of writing

• Those who only want the core essence or standardized formulas

• Those who expect to complete an entire feature-length screenplay after listening only to Chapter 1

• Those who want to start writing the script immediately without a planning process

• Those who dream of a side hustle or short-term monetization through this class

  
  

Chapter 1 is a planning class that determines the direction of the work before writing the completed scenario. Therefore, rather than a "lecture on churning out a piece quickly," it is closer to a lecture on building a solid initial blueprint for a work that can be written through to the end.

Full 5-Chapter Roadmap

This course is not simply a lecture that lists writing theories.
It follows the actual sequence in which a work is completed.

It is designed as a 5-chapter roadmap: Film Planning → Structure → Plot & Characters → Genre → Scene Techniques & Adaptation.

Chapter 1: Film Planning, which you are currently taking, is the starting point.
By organizing vague ideas into subject matter, high concepts, loglines, and planning intentions, you will create the first blueprint of a work that can later be expanded into structure and plot. Additionally, missions tailored to each writing stage are provided for every chapter, allowing students to go beyond just listening to lectures and actively develop their own work step by step.

Chapter 1. Film Planning

Organize vague ideas into the first sentence of your work.
Learn how to write subject matter, high concepts, loglines, and planning intentions, and master how to brainstorm, select, and refine ideas using ChatGPT as an assistant writer.

Mission: Complete a one-sentence logline for the work you want to write.

Chapter 2. Structure

Expand the idea summarized in the logline into the overall flow of the story.
Learn Hollywood's structural theories, which beginners often find difficult, in a practical way, and conduct case studies through actual work analysis. Understand the three-act structure, major plot points, the midpoint, and the direction of the ending to establish the basic framework for a feature film or series.

Mission: Write a one-page A4 synopsis for my work.

Chapter 3. Plot and Characters

Flesh out the events and characters that drive the story.
While learning how to create the characters and plots you desire, you will examine in detail how to analyze characters and plots from reference works and adapt them for your own project. By designing the protagonist's goals and deficiencies, antagonists and allies, and the causal relationships of major events, you will organize the plot and characters so that the work can progress to the end without stalling.

Mission: Expand your work into a 3-page A4 synopsis.

Chapter 4. Genre

Check what kind of entertainment your work promises to the audience.
Focusing on genres loved by Koreans such as romance, comedy, thriller, action, and apocalypse, you will understand genre conventions and formats while strengthening your work's distinctiveness and public appeal. You will learn to understand genre not just as a simple mood, but as a promise made to the audience, and how to fulfill and vary that promise.

Mission: Write a treatment of approximately 20 A4 pages for your work.

Chapter 5. Scene · Adaptation

Learn how to translate planning and structure into actual scenes.
Master the techniques of scenes, dialogue and stage directions, scene sequencing, and the basic principles of adaptation to bring your ongoing screenplay writing to completion.

Mission: Complete one feature-length screenplay or episodes 1 and 2 of a series script for your work.

If you steadily follow this 5-chapter roadmap, you won't just stop at the "I have an idea" stage, but can expand to completing one feature-length film screenplay or, depending on your goal, a series proposal and scripts for episodes 1 and 2.

Please note that this course is operated on a per-chapter individual sale basis.
The current lecture is the first step, Chapter 1: Movie Planning, and subsequent chapters will be opened sequentially as they are prepared.