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"Hooky Ideas "" Capturing The Big Fish - Download Edition - Mp4 Video" |
"The single most powerful thing in all of Hollywood is a great idea for a movie. It ™s the Big Fish all the industry is hunting for and the best possible way for an aspiring writer to break in. But not just any fish will do. Hollywood doesn ™t want fish with good taste. Hollywood wants fish that taste good. These great catches are captivating concepts or �Hooky Ideas. � Learn to target Hooky Ideas, lure in industry interest, and pitch like the pros."
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Writing The Tv Spec That Sells - Download Edition - Mp4 Video |
"Every aspiring television writer must have several excellent specs that showcase a talent for scriptwriting. This session will cover choosing the best shows to spec, learning to study episodes and format, and highlighting your own voice while staying true to the show are the skills that will get you hired as a writer. Study the secrets to writing television specs "" following format, staying on voice, avoiding the �cabin show, � and more "" that will make your script shine."
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Writing The Spec Script That Launches Your Career - Download Edition - |
"An extremely well-executed spec script is required to break into the business, yet too many writers waste valuable time and energy writing a script with little to no chance at success. In this class, UCLA professor and professional screenwriter Corey Mandell covers what agents and managers are looking for in today ™s marketplace, how to avoid the common mistakes most writers make when trying to break in, effective strategies for writing the spec script that can launch a career, and how to get that script read by the right people."
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"What I Really Want Is Representation "" The Agent And Manager Panel -" |
"For many aspiring writers gaining representation is their all-consuming goal. In this session, top agents and managers currently representing screenwriters share how and why they sign new clients and what their advice is for new writers trying to break into Hollywood."
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Tools Of The Trade - Download Edition - Mp4 Video |
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The Writer's Legal Guide: An Authors Guild Desk Reference - Softcover |
"In an increasingly digitized and complex publishing world, writers need to know how to protect themselves against copyright infringement, legal trouble, and unwise concessions to publishers. Still the author ™s foremost advocate for copyright protection, fair contracts, and free expression, the Authors Guild has once again partnered with Allworth Press to update this invaluable reference. Thoroughly revised to reflect the many changes in the publishing industry, the fourth edition offers plain-English explanations of legal and business aspects of the trade, from electronic rights and ebooks to contracts and accounting. Other topics include: Registering copyrights, including online Taxes and bookkeeping Following fair use guidelines Negotiating contracts with publishers and agents Obtaining permissions to use others ™ work Dealing with periodical, syndication, film, television, play, and audio rights agreements Handling business disputes Understanding libel, priv"
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Pitch Perfect - Download Edition - Mp4 Video |
"You have a pitch meeting, now what? A pitch is more than the chance to sell your idea to an executive. This all-important industry meeting is your opportunity to convey your passion for writing, professionalism, and skill all at once. Learn how to make the most of every meeting, establish relationships with executives, and pitch an idea that studios will want to buy."
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Cast Of Characters - Download Edition - Mp4 Video |
"The best screenplays have characters that seem to step off the page and come to life. Professional writers spend untold hours examining the backstory, motivations and relationships of protagonists, antagonists, and supporting cast alike. Learn the pros ™ methods for creating three-dimensional, unforgettable characters actors will want to play."
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The Reel Truth: Everything You Didn't Know You Need To Know About |
"Did you know that most of the biggest indie filmmakers, screenwriters, and producers working today each made the same avoidable mistakes early on in their careers? The Reel Truth details the pitfalls, snares, and roadblocks that aspiring filmmakers encounter. Reed Martin interviewed more than one hundred luminaries from the independent film world to discuss the near misses that almost derailed their first and second films and identify the close shaves that could have cut their careers short. Other books may tell you the best way to make your independent film or online short, but no other book describes so candidly how to spot and avoid such issues and obstacles as equipment problems, shooting-day snafus, postproduction myths, theatrical distribution deal breakers, and dozens of other commonly made missteps, including the top fifty mistakes every filmmaker makes. From personal experience and his years as a freelance reporter covering independent film for USA Today and Filmmaker magazi"
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How To Tell And Sell Your Spec Script - Download Edition - Mp4 Video |
"Using her experience in staffing over 15 primetime shows, Jen Grisanti will reveal secrets from the executive side and guide you to use your voice in your story as a way to help your TV spec/pilot scripts rise to the top of the stack. You will learn the tools needed both on the page and in the room to get your script sold. This session will give you the story and career tips that will guide you to your success. It all comes down to how you tell and sell your story!"
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Writing The Ten Best Story Types - Ondemand Edition |
"ABOUT THE WEBINAR �Dude with a Problem. � �Fool Triumphant. � �Golden Fleece. � Have you heard such terms bandied about by screenwriter friends, as they describe and develop their screenplays? If you have, it ™s because Blake Snyder ™s Save the Cat books are arguably the most popular and helpful screenwriting tools to emerge in the last decade "" and some of his fun phraseology has seeped into the consciousness of writers around the world. And it ™s a good thing "" because along with his 15-point �Beat Sheet � structure paradigm, his ten �genres � (and fifty �subgenres �) have brought a new language and approach to the study of what makes movie stories work "" and what successful scripts seem to have in common. He came up with an original set of story types that account for virtually every successful movie one could name. And he showed how, for instance, Forrest Gump, Legally Blonde and The 40-Year-Old Virgin are all really the same kind of m"
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Getting Past The Reader - Download Edition - Mp4 Video |
"The gatekeepers of Hollywood are professional readers who provide coverage for the industry ™s agency, management and production companies. Their coverage determines if your script will be read by company decision-makers � or not. In this session, working script readers dish on what makes them give a screenplay the coveted �Recommend � and how to increase your odds of making the cut."
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A Screenwriters Guide To Interactive Books - Download Edition - Mp4 |
"Interactive Books are hot, and this is good news for screenwriters. iPads and eReaders now offer an unprecedented opportunity to have your work seen by thousands. You don ™t have to live in Los Angeles, don ™t have to suck-up to anyone ™s D-Person, and don ™t have to beg an agent to rep you. In this informative and inspirational session, screenwriter and producer Jeffrey Alan Schechter will describe how he created three iPad 'Apps of the Week' by combining a love of literature, writing, and filmmaking, and what the explosion of tablet devices means in terms of opportunities for writers and screenwriters."
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The A-B-Cs Of Television Script Structure - Download Edition - Mp4 |
"A, B and C plots, cliffhangers, commercial placement, and teasers "" television writing has a language all its own and a structure that can vary by show and by network. Whether you are writing a half-hour sitcom or a television drama with a series arc, you must know the principles that apply to television writing in general and the show you are specing in particular. Learn the rules, how to apply them, and when to break them in this informative session on structure."
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The Other Network Writer's Room: Volume 1 - Mp3 Download |
"The award-winning writers behind Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sex and the City, Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, Family Guy, Will & Grace, Politically Incorrect and The Simpsons tell you what it's really like to write for TV. This audio series gives you advice, inspiration, words of wisdom, stories of defeat and triumph from some of the most original, outspoken and successful TV writers in the business. Creative insights! Practical advice! The Writers' Room is essential listening if you want to... Learn to write comedy Get into the TV business Understand the creative process Go behind the scenes of groundbreaking shows Find out what it takes to put your vision on TV How they did it... How you can too! Volume 1 features nearly 5 hours of audio insight from some of the best in the business: Multiple Emmy-winner MICHAEL PATRICK KING is the passionate visionary behind Sex and the City and The Comeback. In this far-reaching interview he talks about what he looks for when "
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The Other Network Writer's Room: Volume 2 - Mp3 Download |
"The award-winning writers behind Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sex and the City, Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, Family Guy, Will & Grace, Politically Incorrect and The Simpsons tell you what it's really like to write for TV. This audio series gives you advice, inspiration, words of wisdom, stories of defeat and triumph from some of the most original, outspoken and successful TV writers in the business. Creative insights! Practical advice! The Writers' Room is essential listening if you want to... Learn to write comedy Get into the TV business Understand the creative process Go behind the scenes of groundbreaking shows Find out what it takes to put your vision on TV How they did it... How you can too! Volume 2 features nearly 5 hours of audio insight from some of the best in the business: Multiple Emmy-winner SETH MACFARLANE is the young mogul and hyper-hyphenate behind The Family Guy and American Dad. He's also many of their voices. Here he tells you how he became th"
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Complete Guide To Writing And Selling The Christian Novel - Softcover |
"Dr. Stokes takes you through every step of the creative process, from plot development and characterization to editing and revision. And, with her expert advice on the Christian literary market, you'll be able to submit your work. But what's more, you'll learn to craft beautiful, inspiring fiction that touches the hearts and imaginations of your readers."
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Conversations With The Great Moviemakers Of Hollywood's Golden Age At |
"The first book to bring together these interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners. Here are the incomparable directors interviewed in this title: Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang ( I learned only from bad films ), William Wyler, and George Stevens; renowned producers and cinematographers; celebrated screenwriters Ray Bradbury and Ernest Lehman; as well as the immortal Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini ( Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It s absolutely impossible to improvise ). Taken together, these conversations offer uniquely intimate access to the thinking, the wisdom, and the genius of cinema s most talented pioneers."
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"How To Publish, Promote, And Sell Your Own Book - Softcover Edition" |
"Robert Holt, himself the successful author of four self-published books, now shares his knowledge and savvy with other would-be author-publishers in this step-by-step guide to every aspect of self-publishing. If you yearn join the ranks of such self published authors as Henry Thoreau, Upton Sinclair, Anais Nin, and George Bernard Shaw, if you've ever thought of doing it yourself, then this is the book for you. How to Publish Promote and Sell Your Own Book provides you with everything you ever wanted to know about self-publishing--and never even thought to ask."
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How To Write A Movie Script: The Abc's Of Structuring Your Script The |
"ABOUT THE WEBINAR � It is possible to write a script made for Hollywood, one that is destined to succeed, but it takes hard work and a great deal of studying what is working now and why it works. This video will take some of the hard work out of figuring out the winning Hollywood structure. You will learn the specifications that Hollywood is looking for. You will go over the fundamentals of struture and genre conventions. you will learn to use your genre to determine the structure of your story. Writer and educator, Robert Piluso will give you a glimpse of the structures that are working in Hollywood and will break down why they work. He will give you step by step instructions for ensuring your screenplay is a success in Hollywood. WHAT YOU ™LL LEARN: How to use genre conventions to enhance your screenplay ™s effect on the audience How to build compelling protagonists How to get your script to catch a reader ™s attention How to employ the sequence meth"
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Adapting Sideways: How To Turn Your Screenplay Into A Publishable |
"Screenwriters are true writers, having proved their story, skills, and determination on the tight canvas of screenplays. Now, determined to find their audience and another way to the silver screen, some screenwriters are turning to novelization. One of the #1 ways to interest any agent or manager is by having a large library of completed work that demonstrates your range as a writer. That means not both a diverse selection of genres and a variety of mediums, too. Not to mention, countless screenwriters have gotten their start as novelists "" just ask William Goldman or Nick Hornby. Bringing your creative work to the film industry is a challenge, so why not give yourself the advantage by becoming a master of all trades? The key transitions for screenwriter-to-novelist are: How to showcase your story-telling strengths How to translate screenwriting skills to novelist craft How to jump-start your novel-writing career Adapting Sideways is the brainchild of Charlotte Cook, publ"
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The Secret Strategy For A Successful Pilot: Engineering The Machine |
"ABOUT THE WEBINAR When you look at the astonishing architectural masterpieces by Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, what you see is an impossible artistic achievement brought to life "" pillows of steel and glass floating on the ground. What you don ™t see is the hugely complex engineering that was necessary to let these buildings stand. The same is true with television pilots "" what you see is brilliant stories, fantastic characters and compelling situations that demand you come back episode after episode. What you don ™t see is the engineering underlying the artistic achievement "" you don ™t see the machine that allows the art to work. This webinar is going to teach you how to build that machine "" how to see what lies beneath those great stories and characters, and to engineer one that will allow you to write your own brilliant pilot. Revisiting the great pilots of the last ten years you will learn to see them in a completely new way, and to understand the secr"
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The Dreaded 2Nd Act: How To Tame It - Ondemand Edition |
"ABOUT THE WEBINAR Let ™s be honest "" nobody ™s favorite part of screenwriting is the second act. Our inspirations begin with great ideas and can take us to amazing conclusions, but our creative juices seldom get turned on by all that cumbersome story development found in the vast, dark, empty regions that lie somewhere between the beginning and the end of a story. This part of the writing process is just plain hard work "" for both you and your protagonist. But quite frankly, there ™s no way around it. However, if you learn to work with the transformational arc you will discover that the 2nd act is not a barren wilderness, but a place of remarkable potential. The transformational arc is, in effect, the interior line of structure. Whereas the plot guides the external conflict and action, the arc guides the inner, emotional development of the characters as they are forced to deal with the conflict of the plot. Using the arc makes the story more human and relatab"
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Amp Up The Stakes: Create A Ticking Clock - Ondemand |
"ABOUT THIS WEBINAR Urgency, tension and conflict are all essential ingredients in a script that will keep readers up all night, but it can be difficult to be sure that your script has those elements turned up in their script. The easiest way to ensure that you never fall into the trap of writing a boring script: create a ticking clock or a ticking time bomb. The most memorable scripts are those that include a time dependent crisis. Timothy Cooper will guide you through creating the ticking clock in your own story and show you how you can dial up the urgency and tension by making small changes to your script. It ™s possible that your script is just a few tweaks away from being the game changing script that will grab and hold your readers. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Tighten your film's time frame to ratchet up tension Give your protagonist the biggest challenge he/she has ever faced Steadily ramp up conflict throughout the script Construct the vital but underutilized midpoin"
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12 Top Tips To Write A Screenplay That Gets Noticed By Agents And |
"ABOUT THE WEBINAR Executives and agents receive THOUSANDS of scripts a year. Most of them are not at a high quality in terms of plot set up, character engagement and dialogue, and most of them are passed over. This seminar will provide tips and practical applications to elevate the quality of your writing so you can stand out and increase your chances of becoming a million dollar writer. Wendy Kram has been an executive for production companies at Disney, Sony and Universal, and has developed and produced projects for ABC, CBS, NBC, Lifetime, Showtime and HBO. Having read thousands of writers over the years, and interacting with Hollywood buyers, executives and talent agents on a daily basis, she brings valuable insights about what makes executives respond to certain scripts over others. You will benefit from insider knowledge about what sells, what you can do to distinguish yourself, and develop a reputation as a writer executives want to hire. WHAT YOU ™LL LEARN: How "
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Playwriting 101: Everything You Need To Know To Write A Play - |
"ABOUT THE WEBINAR There's nothing like sitting in the back of a dark theater as an audience reacts to actors performing your work. But finding that first (and second and third...) production means not only understanding such basic elements as character, play structure, setting, dialogue and stage directions, but also learning what actually works on stage. Jonathan Dorf's plays have been produced worldwide, and as a teacher and script consultant, he's been guiding writers from Arizona to Australia toward production and publication for two decades. He'll share some of the techniques, tips and tricks he's gathered to accelerate your learning curve ""whether you're a newly minted aspiring playwright, have experience and are just looking for that refresher, or want to use playwriting to take your screenwriting or fiction to the next level. Learn how to develop your germ of an idea into a full-fledged script, the big picture concepts that will help you structure your play and keep it on "
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The Top Ten Classic Films That Are Bad Templates For Beginning Writers |
"ABOUT THE WEBINAR It seems natural that a screenwriter would gain inspiration from the films that they love and re-purpose that for their own screenplays. According to Michael Lee, that is a mistake. In his webinar Michael Lee will explain why it can be dangerous for beginning writers to use popular films as a template for their own script. Using 10 popular film examples, he breaks down the pitfalls that accompany each film, why it worked for the film, and why it wont work for yours. With years of experience as a contest judge, Michael Lee has an insider's glimpse at what it takes to write a winning screenplay. In this hour long webinar he will show you how to avoid common mistakes made by beginning writers. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Why using popular films as a template is a trap Why beginning writers should use caution when using even classic screenplays What kind of flaws can exist in some of the best screenplays and how to avoid them"
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