Event Details
Monday
December 13, 2021 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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The Screenwriter's #1 Calling Card
A standout short film is THE best calling card—but it’s not easy to make a great one that breaks through to the masses. Excel in this one-of-a-kind format to exhibit your greatest strengths! We’ll focus on: standing out with a strong hook, creating indelible characters, demonstrating your proof of concept, grabbing the audience immediately, quickly heightening tension and comedy, and showing off your unique POV.
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- Show the world your vision and your voice—using filmmaking’s most efficient format
- Why shorts are the perfect medium to take a MAJOR artistic risk
- Snare the audience on page 1 with a brilliant hook
- Stun the viewer with an unexpected yet logical twist ending
- 5 tips to showcase your concept and style quickly and economically
- Instantly prove that your writing translates powerfully to the screen
- Don’t wait for permission—greenlight your own project!
…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.
