Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- Implement the ultimate page-one checklist to engage every reader
- 5 techniques to make people beg to read your script (not the other way around)
- Amplify each scene by preloading it with increased tension
- Build in ultra-clear goals and urgency throughout
- Use smart page layout, verb choice, and even punctuation to make a world of difference
- Maximize each character’s flaw for a stronger empathetic connection
- Give yourself 3 gifts to create a powerful engine that pulls us through the story
- Implement the Action Pass, the Dialogue Pass, the Goals Pass, and others so that the pages fly by
- Demonstration of live rewrite passes on actual screenplay pages
…and a whole lot more. I hope to see you there!
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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.
