Event Details
Monday
April 4, 2022 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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Dialogue Master Class
All the tools you need to give your characters a voice! You’ll learn how to bring out your characters’ specific personalities, convey emotion, layer in subtext, clarify theme, and advance the story through compelling, snappy, powerful dialogue—while letting your own unique style shine through.
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- 7 simple secrets to writing unforgettable opening lines
- Convey deep emotion through what people say…AND what they leave out
- Create crackling dialogue that’s distinct for every character
- Disguise exposition with these 3 pro-level techniques
- Use powerfully opposing goals to create fireworks in every scene!
- The #1 mistake screenwriters make when writing subtext
- Why on-the-nose dialogue can be your best friend
…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.
