NYCscreenwriter Events
2010 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
NYU PROF JOE GILFORD
ONE DAY INTENSIVE
GET YOUR SCRIPT “INDUSTRY READY”
SATURDAY
February 6th, 2010
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Topics include:
§ Where’s the DRAMA?
§ Do you have enough to worry about?
§ “The 7 Principles of Dramatic Storytelling”
§ Write 8 Good Scenes—and you can make a movie
§ Writing for actors
§ Knowing Your Audience
§ Act II: “The Beast”
§ Getting to Work
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§ Getting your Script “Industry Ready.”
…and much more.
FULL Q & A - DISCUSSION - TALK-BACK
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EVENT #2
ACHIEVING YOUR
SCREENWRITING GOALS
WORKSHOP
TAUGHT BY
AWARD WINNING SCREENWRITER
STEVEN ARVANITES
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STOP PROCRASTINATING & START WRITING NOW! 2010 WRITING GOAL WORKSHOP ~~~~~~ No matter what the financial markets portend your dreams, hopes and aspirations must not be not be tied to your pensions, 401(k) or your credit card balance. Creative dreams are the equity that keeps your creative existence vital. January 16th's workshop will tackle that very complex subject. Setting goals is always the best way to achieve $ucce$$. In this Writing Goal Workshop we will discuss, in the first part, three steps to achieving that very result -- Action Step When you master these three simple principles you can put your professional screenwriting goals in focus and move forward. But -- there's always a but -- There are challenges and obstacles for each actionable plan. To leap over obstacles you must address them, acknowledge them and plan past them. That will be the SECOND PART of our workshop. Finally, in the THIRD PART of our workshop we'll acknowledge your creative career and re imagine it in reverse -- think Memento-- and help you achieve your ultimate goal by biting off small benchmarks that are easily achievable. And the best part about this workshop is that it includes our 2st annual Holiday Party. We'll celebrate the season, your creative triumphs, and new friends. If you choose, please bring your favorite munchies -- soda, chips, dip, chocolate chip cookies (please avoid peanuts for our anaphylaxis friends), nonalcoholic beverage, an important organic something, an MSG sloppy snack -- you get the idea and together, with this potluck mini-feast, we'll WRITE a happy beginning to the year.
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EVENT #3
Supposedly, George Lucas had been consulting with Joseph Campbell when he created Star Wars. Whether true or not, what remains is Lucas’ mythic Star Wars trilogy that in fact follows the “Heroes Journey” as described in
In “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” published in 1948,
Nearly 50 years later, Christopher Vogler published the wildly successful “The Writer’s Journey, Mythic Structures for Storytellers and Screenwriters.” Openly attributing his findings based on
After teaching screenwriting and Script Analysis for the last 15 years at Columbia University, Tisch and The New School, I’ve come to believe that the “unifying structural elements” are not necessarily applicable to all stories – but, learning the basic phases of the Heroes Journey in what Campbell called the “Monomyth” can be a very valuable tool for screenwriters as well as in the writing and understanding of all narratives.
During my workshop I will cover the basic 12 steps of the “Monomyth” and how it applies to filmic stories. I will also break it down as how “The Heroes Journey” applies to the film The Fisher King.
There will also be a Q&A.
Screenwriter, director, playwright, composer-lyricist. Prof. Caplin teaches screenwriting at Columbia University, The Tisch Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU and The New School.
Feature Film: The Lucky Ones (Writer/Director), Tribeca Film Festival; History of the World in 8 Minutes (Writer/Director), New Directors/New Films Festival, MOMA, NYC; Lost Angels (Original Story), Orion Pictures; Battle in the Erogenous Zone, (Co-Wrote and Co-Produced) Showtime; The Forbidden Zone (Music Producer), Samuel Goldwyn; Has written film scripts for: Paramount, Columbia, Orion, TriStar and numerous independents.
Theater: The Presidents (Co-playwright with Ron Nessen), PBS, U.S. National Tour (2002-2003); Sunday's Child and Men in the Kitchen (playwright), Long Wharf Theater, CT; A Subject of Childhood (playwright), W.P.A. Theater, NYC; City Muzik (Book, Music, Lyrics) Huntington Theater, Boston; Gangs (Book, Music, Lyrics), produced by David Merrick and Joe Roth.
Numerous poems published including in The Paris Review and Rolling Stone. . He lives in NYC with his wife, a painter and illustrator, Jenne van Eeghen.
MARCH 20, 2010
SATURDAY/3PM SHARP
WHERE:
400 west 43 Street
ELLINGTON ROOM
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Idea to the Page to the Screen: Fearless Writing for the Passionate Screenwriter
Screenwriting Workshop
Feb. 27 & 28
Julie is the author of the popular screenwriting blog Just Effing Entertain Me, recently named as one of the 50 Best Blogs for Filmmaker by MovieMaker Magazine. -- more below
This fun, participatory and packed two-day workshop is designed to help aspiring screenwriters learn the tools necessary to not only test ideas for originality but also to outline effectively and write unforgettable characters. Writers will participate in brainstorming exercises, learn about writing cinematically, and come away recharged, inspired and armed to write awesome pages.
Day two focuses on strategies for breaking into Hollywood: Learn how to sell both your writing and yourself. We’ll discuss agents, managers, competitions, queries and the art of pitching. Role-playing and practice pitching in a supportive environment will help you gain the confidence you need to build your career AND the professionalism, playfulness and fresh perspective you need to stay sane and happy while doing so.
The Details: February 27th & 28th- 9:30a-5:30p both days. (with lunchbreak) NYCastings Office - 243 W. 30th St., 3rd Floor. (Close to Penn Station between 7th & 8th Avenues) Admission: $279 - Early Bird (by 2/12), $329 Regular Admission (After 2/13) & $249 Student Discount (w/ ID) NYCscreenwriter Members: enter coupon code - "NYCscreenwriting.org" and sign up for only $249 To sign up send an email to classes@justeffing.com OR visit Julie's blog for more info - www.justeffing.com Julie Gray is the founder of The Script Department, one of Hollywood’s premier script coverage services. She also directs the Silver Screenwriting Competition and authors the popular screenwriting blog, Just Effing Entertain Me. Julie consults privately with a wide variety of writers and teaches classes atWarner Bros., The Great American PitchFest, The Creative Screenwriting Expo and San Francisco University in Quito, Ecuador. Julie lives in Los Angeles, California; her book Just Effing Entertain Me is slated for release in late 2010.
Attendees should bring along a current project that they are working on as there will hopefully be one-on-one time to brainstorm with Julie.
--Basho
EVENT #4
Creating the Feel of Real Events in your Screenplay
In this lecture I will reveal a range of techniques professional screenwriters use to give their interesting stories the impact of reality – including a new structural form called “process,” and specific ways to reconstruct plot twists that might otherwise come off as bad melodrama.
These techniques may just make the difference between mildly piquing a producer’s interest, and finally being taken seriously as a screenwriter who can deliver an unforgettable script.
GORDON FARRELL BIO:
Faculty:Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, TSOA, New York University
M.F.A., Yale School of Drama,
B.F.A., United States International University.
As a playwright, Prof. Farrell’s plays have been produced in San Francisco, at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, at Yale School of Drama in New Haven, and at Primary Stages in New York. He is the author of The Power of the Playwright’s Vision, published by Heinemann Press, and a series of children’s plays, published by Scholastic Press.
A screenwriter for many years, Prof. Farrell is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East. He has written for hire and sold screenplays to producers Robert Simonds (producer, Big Daddy, The Wedding Singer); Neil Moritz (producer, Cruel Intentions, XXX); Bruce Berman (producer, Matrix, Three Kings); and Norman Twain (producer, Lean on Me, Curve Balls Along the Way).
An award-winning computer game designer, he wrote and designed single player campaigns for the multi-million selling Empire Earth and its expansion, Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest from Sierra On-Line. For Activision’s critically successful Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, he designed single player scenarios and wrote scripts. He is also Lead Writer for Reverie World Studios’ upcoming new game, Dawn of Fantasy.
WHEN:
APRIL 17, 2010
SATURDAY - 3PM
WHERE:
400 west 43 Street
ELLINGTON ROOM /2nd floor
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Looking at Your Script from the Executive Perspective
MAY 29th - SATURDAY
Writers always ask, ‘What is an executive looking for? How come they don’t see what I see?’ This class will teach writers how to think, read and write from the executive perspective.
Topics Covered include:
How a Development Exec reads a script – what they’re looking for and the difference between how a writer reads and an executive reads.
The 3 questions executives think of while reading
The Top 10 Notes an executive gives and how to avoid them
How an exec hears/interprets a pitch
The three different types of projects execs read
What it takes to get a “recommend” from a script consultant/reader
The development process – giving and getting notes - what to expect and how to survive it with flying colors
Q&A session follows
DANIEL MANUS BIO:
Daniel Manus is an in-demand script consultant and founder of No BullScript Consulting, which can be found at www.nobullscript.net and is the author of the E-Book “No B.S. for Screenwriters: Advice from the Executive Perspective.”
He has previously worked as a script consultant at ScriptShark and Script Coach. He is also the Director of Development for Clifford Werber Productions (Cinderella Story, Sydney White) and is attached to produce several projects independently.
Daniel was previously a Development Consultant for Eclectic Pictures and the DOD at Sandstorm Films, which had a first look deal at Screen Gems and a development deal with Top Cow Comics. He is also a columnist for The Business of Show Institute and teaches seminars to writers all across the country.
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WHEN:
MAY 29th - SATURDAY 3PM sharp
WHERE:
400 west 43 Street
ELLINGTON ROOM
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