Event Details
Tuesday
September 6, 2022 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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Discover & Develop Your Unique Voice
What exactly is “voice”? How do you find it, develop it, and use it to your advantage?
Using prime examples from the most memorable screenwriters and scripts of our time, we’ll help you identify, embrace, and enhance your voice to write a story only you could tell.
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- Why a standout voice often supersedes EVERY other screenwriting skill
- Top 10 traits executives are subconsciously seeking in every script
- Tips & tricks to incorporate your life experiences into all aspects of your story
- How to select an idea that NO ONE else could execute the way you do
- Breaking down 5 of the most memorable opening pages in TV/film history
- Games & techniques to help you truly embrace your own powerful writing style
- Gain confidence via bold choices—leave us feeling something real
…and a whole lot more. 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.
