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Creative Writing Workshops with children’s author Susan Brownrigg

Date: 30 Sep 2023
Location: Aunty Social, 28 Topping Street
community | family | literature

Storyboarding is a method used by film directors to plan out their movies using visual images. In this interactive workshop will focus on breaking down your story idea into big scene moments. Look at storyboard examples used by Alfred Hitchcock and animators before creating your own version. Art skills aren’t important – you can use stick characters if you are not confident at drawing! Learn about the Winter Gardens and look at old postcards and other images that depict the entertainment complex through time. Brownrigg is the author of the Gracie Fairshaw Mystery Series (Uclan Publishing) which is set in 1930s Blackpool. Her forthcoming third book is set in the Winter Gardens and is based around a film crew coming to the resort. The book was inspired by the real-life filming of Sing as We Go in Blackpool in 1934.
There are two sessions: 11am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3pm.

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