Event Details
Monday
May 2, 2022 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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I’ve Finished My Draft—Now What?
Congratulations on finishing the first draft! Now, follow these vital steps to take your script—and your career—to the next level. Learn how to interpret and incorporate feedback, focus your rewrites, polish your prose, network, and get your script into the right hands.
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- Top 10 differences between scripts that break through and those
that don’t
- Step-by-step tools to ensure your screenplay is ready for the world
to judge
- Use “high concept” principles to make your story an absolute page-turner, no matter what the budget/genre
- Why the way you introduce your lead is THE most critical scene
- Where to get great feedback—and how to filter it
- Give readers exactly what they want (but what they never expected)
- When and how to use The Black List and related contests/fellowships/sites
…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.
