Event Details
Tuesday
July 6, 2021 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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Sell Yourself as a Screenwriter
A significant part of screenwriting is selling yourself—authentically, artistically, and truthfully.
Make your writing and your pitches into calling cards by highlighting your unique voice, background, style, topics of interest, themes, and so much more. Get your scripts to stand out from the crowd and build your own exclusive brand!
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- 5 key differences between ALL scripts that sell and ALL scripts that don’t
- Find the “universal theme” in your unique circumstances, background, and interests
- Write a screenplay no one can put down—starting with the title itself
- Understand the “10% different” rule and use it to your advantage
- 8 vital tips to compel every reader to keep on reading
- Why Hollywood loves to hire specialists, not generalists
- Get the confidence you need to fully commit to your own voice
…and a whole lot more. I hope to see you there!
Timothy Michael Cooper is an award-winning filmmaker, comedy writer, and script consultant. He wrote and directed the Writers Guild Award-nominated Concierge: The Series, starring Kate McKinnon. His short comedy Lemon premiered at Tribeca, played at dozens of international festivals and on United Airlines, and is currently in development as a sitcom. Plus, he’s been part of the writers’ room for the Writers Guild Awards for the past six years, writing monologue jokes and sketches for numerous hosts/presenters.
Through his company, Blueprint Screenwriting Group, he’s taught hundreds of writers. His clients and students have sold their scripts to major studios; staffed on multiple network and cable TV shows; screened/won at SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, etc.; and got their movies and shows made across the globe.
Timothy is a proud member of the WGAE, the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective Writers’ Workshop, the Hollywood Radio & Television Society, and the WGAE Softball Team.
About The Fundamentals of Screenwriting Series
The Fundamentals of Screenwriting with Timothy Michael Cooper is a WGA East seminar series that aims to live up to its name – to teach the fundamentals for screenwriters that need a refresher or journalists and other screenwriting novices looking to learn for the first time.
Watch the previous installments of the Fundamentals of Screenwriting series here.
