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Seminars & Workshops
Nailing the Great Story
Come with your ideas or script — go home with your logline, characters, and storyboard.
Part 1
Part 1, students learn about loglines, genre, and characters, and how to develop them. The class participates in a creative session to help everyone develop their logs and character lists. Homework: fine tune. Yes, you'll walk out with your logline!
CREATING THE POWERFUL STORY PREMISE
High Concept, Logline,
Genre,
Theme
CONFLICT AND CHARACTER
Primary and secondary characters
Heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists
Avoiding stereotypes
Character motivation and growth
Part 2
Part 2, students learn how to apply loglines, genre, and characters to storyboard. How to use turning points to create surprise and tension. How to use the logline to keep on track. You'll go home with your beat outline!
STRUCTURE FOR
SURPRISE
15 Beats
Plot and subplots
Turning points and action points
Outlines and treatments
STORYBOARD OUTLINE
Flick Chick Pictures Beat
Meeting, where all the students help each other to develop their
storyboards using necessary beat structure.
REWRITING - MAKING YOUR GOOD SCRIPT GREAT
Never ever send it out until it's perfect
Complimentary Follow-up
Complete your outline. Work through your storyline. email it to nailit@flickscripts.com. Request a complimentary email evaluation and comments or a phone consultation.
Next Workshop: May 16-17, 2009. 9:30a-12:30p. The Lakes, 18200 NW Cornell Rd @ 185th. The Meeting Room. Beaverton, OR.
Seating is extremely limited to assure personal attention. Sign up right away.
Price: $135/$99 in advance.
Script Analysis
THE SCRIPT ANALYST
What is a script analyst, and how script analysis improve
your writing.
COVERAGE
What it is, what it's for, who uses it, how, why. Benefits to
writers.
A SCRIPT'S JOURNEY
The script's path through the studio/agency from log-in to green
light, and how the reader's coverage leads the way. You'll know what
happens to your script once you let go of it.
ON-SITE VS. OFF-SITE SCRIPT ANALYST
Staff assistants who read, staff readers, and freelance analysts.
Connections.
THE CAREER LADDER
Every aspect of film production benefits from deeper understanding
of story analysis, creative solutions to story problems, and ability
to diplomatically communicate story, elements, and qualities. Want
to be a Development Exec?
THE REPORT
The Form
Logline, Genre, Grids, Comments, Eval, Synopsis
What they're looking for.
Different strokes for different folks.
Your writing skills will be noticed and appreciated.
GETTING THE JOB
Industry lists, Online lists, Marketing packages.
Sample coverage and the "audition."
Getting hired, keeping the job, getting fired, getting rehired.
ANALYZING THE SCRIPT
A discussion of all the elements: concept, genre, theme, structure,
dialogue, writing, budget, attached elements.
What to look for, how to communicate it. Useful quotables.
ANALYZE THIS
Creative Meeting at Flick Chick Pictures to discuss the script you'll
cover for YOUR SAMPLE COVERAGE ASSIGNMENT.
Your coverage becomes your calling card.
Contact Flick Scripts for locations, dates, and times, or to schedule a workshop for your group.
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