A Four-Week Scriptwriting Boot Camp for Middle School Students

In the next four weeks, this Boot Camp will teach you everything you'll need to know to tackle the great Script Frenzy challenge this April. Over the next month, we'll invent heroes and villains, hatch plots, practice writing moving dialogue, and even learn a thing or two about the mysterious art of script formatting. Get started by clicking on Week One.

Week One: Choosing the Right Script for You and Casting Your Characters
In the first week, we'll help you decide what kind of script to write and introduce a surefire way to create a crew of amazing characters.

Week Two: Creating Conflict and Outlining Your Plot
Get your characters off the page and into action in Week Two.

Week Three: What Makes a Script a Script
Learn how to get your characters from Page 1 to "The End" using dialogue, action, and description.

Week Four: Putting It All Together—Formatting Your Script
In your final week of the Boot Camp, we'll show you how to format your script like a pro. We promise it won't be as hard as you might think!