Description
The Hallmark holiday movie has a reputation of being simple and deeply formulaic. And to some degree, yes. However, the craft of writing a holiday movie that feels good and satisfies is deceptively tricky. In this class, we’ll ask how to make something enormously complicated look easy. We’ll explore how to shape romance for the screen, and how to create holiday joy in the form of a movie—the kind that rivals an audience’s fondest childhood memories. Led by screen and TV writer Zac Hug, discussion and exercises will use students’ own holiday experiences and idealize them for a scripted audience, cover the ins and outs of a 9-act structure, and perhaps even include a family eggnog recipe that absolutely slaps.
About Zac Hug
Zac Hug is a television writer, screenwriter, and owner of Story Hug, a script consulting and teaching service for writers. TV includes Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime), and Shadowhunters (Freeform), The Twelve Dates of Christmas (Hallmark). Zac has written nearly 20 movies for Hallmark, including Road to Christmas, Matching Hearts, The Ghosts of Christmas Always and the Sister Swap and Christmas in Evergreen series. His plays have been produced by the New York Fringe Festival and the Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop. His web series These People won Best Writing in a Comedy at the Indie Series Awards. Zac holds a BFA in Theatre from NYU, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, where is a Lecturer in TV and Screenwriting. He splits his time between Vancouver and Los Angeles with his husband Dan and an old man dog named Pickles.
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