HOW TO WRITE THE NEW AMERICAN SCREENPLAY AND GET IT SOLD
In association with The Learning Annex
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Call (800) 755-2785 or email leslie@lesliekallen.com for registration and additional info.
A one-day seminar/workshop for new and experienced writers, taught by literary manager and entertainment industry seminar leader.
- Do your ideas have movie-ability?
- Does your script underestimate the film literacy quotient of today's audience?
- How can you pack more story into your script?
- Are you including the 5 essential scenes that wake up a busy studio executive?
Every writer wants to write his or her own story that's a unique and original vision. Simultaneously, writers want to sell their scripts and get them made into movies. Sometimes these two goals intertwine, but many times they collide. If you're writing only to sell, you're sunk, and if you're writing your own ironclad, intransigent "vision", you're also sunk. So how do you integrate your vision with the business of screenwriting?
Spend the day with LESLIE KALLEN, nationally-renowned speaker and literary manager, and find out how to do exactly what you – the writer – needs to do to get your script written and put together a motivated selling team that makes your writing career "happen".
In this class, you'll learn:
- How the new American screenplay has evolved and reconfiguered itself, and how you can implement this consciousness into your own scripts.
- How to find ideas to write, and how to internally "work" them.
- How to know if your story ideas are "movie" ideas.
- How and where to pack more good information into your scripts.
- How to mold your story – "revealing" vs. "bending".
- How to push through cliches.
- How to kill your unnecessary characters.
- Why a seller must think like a buyer.
- How to get your selling team in place.
- How to make the cycle of genres work for you.
- How to get and stay motivated, and how to get connected.
Leslie Kallen is a highly respected screenwriting educator known throughout North America for her popular seminars. Additionally, she works as a literary manager, creating opportunities and designing career strategies for her writer clients. Her sure eye for writing talent has helped undiscovered writers break into the industry and succeed. Her wealth of knowledge, combined with no-nonsense, hands-on teaching techniques have made her a hugely popular instructor with an eye towards the market.
Call (310) 478-6677 or visit The Learning Annex to register. Checks and credit cards welcome, including Visa, Mastercard, and Amex.