20 - North Shore News - Sunday, February 20, 2000 Polishing up that great idea for a movie shape? Or do you have ately needs a rewrite? Television workshop helps craft as a sereenwriter. film industry, the market for UBC continuing studies’ to take vour project to dhe Aimed at aspiring screen: Canadian screenwriters, and Writing tor Film and next devel and develop vour writers as well as individuals ways te *hreak in” as a seri- ARE you wrestling with a movie idea that an existing draft of a hasn’t quite taken screenplay that desper- Valentine’s harvest with experience as writers in ous screenwriter. other media, this eight-week course provides an intensive study of the vocabulary or the cinema, dramatic struc- ture, character development, dialogue and subtext. “This course gives writers the tools to shape their ideas into scripts,” explains Ramona Montagnes, coord: nator of the UBC Writing Centre. Classes focus en study of short films and segments of longer works, as well as round-table discussions of student writing and in-class EXETCSEN, The course also addresses the role of the writer in the Marlene Rodgers, the instructor for this special course, has extensive experi- ence teaching screenwriting and has written scripts for television and feature-length films, She has worked for the Ontario Film Board and CBC in evaluating scripts and has produced and directed her own work. Open to the general pub- lic, Writing for Film and Television takes place at UBC on Thursday evenings, from 7 to 10 p.m. beginning in mid-March. The fee is $245. For more informa- tien, call 822-9564. W. Van’s library books are online WEST Vancouver Memorial Library, which was one of the first auto- mated library systems in the area, introduced a new system on Jan. 3. The system, provided by Innovative Interfaces Inc., is also used by Capilano College, Douglas College, port by the Library Foundation and the Friends of the Library. The new system features a Web-based catalogue for the public, and is available on the Internet at . and Simon Fraser University. HEJONITHFINE To HARVEST Project founder David Foster accepts a donation of groceries from Brooksbank Grade 4 student The system has) been % Laura Chan. The North Vancouver students donated $90 in food to the Iccal self-nelp crganization Instead of funded by the District of buying Vatentine’s cards. West Vancouver with sup- oe a be FEBRUARY 25, 26 & 27 . 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