I have teamed up with our friends at Pipeline Artists to host and teach a symposium on Improving The Read this Wednesday night, July 29th,
We go live at 7 pm EDT.
This is two hours of nuts-and-bolts discussion of how to write better on the page so your screenplay is an easier, quicker, more emotional, and visual experience.
I talk about this a lot:
The best strategy to get to 'YES' is to evoke the emotional and visual experience of watching the movie on screen.
This symposium will give you the early steps to do just that.
This is also the topic of my next major course. Enroll in this seminar, and if you love it -- and I think you will -- you can roll over the cost into the full course later.
COOL FACT: The last symposium I held with Pipeline was their best attended and most highly rated symposium ever. Not bad, right?
Be a part of this one!
IMPROVING THE READ
It’s called “A good read.”
It’s when a reader’s eyes glide down the page of a screenplay in an easy, emotional flow.
It’s when a reader sits down to read a screenplay and doesn’t get up until they’re finished.
It’s when the screenplay focuses on the emotional experience rather than the technical one.
And it’s the difference between a good story being easier to identify and one that gets buried in an avalanche of text.
Every screenwriter makes two choices. First, what actually happens in the story. And next, how to transfer those sounds and images to the reader through text.
"Improving The Read" focuses on that second one.
This presentation will cover:
The actual goal of today’s spec screenplay.
How to evoke shots without ever mentioning the camera.
What writing “vertically” means and how to do it.
What bad habits are strangling your reader’s experience.
