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FROM CONCEPT TO PITCH: CREATING YOUR TV SHOW
6 Week workshop Join us for six wild weeks building your TV show. From initial concept and characters to six season arcs and your series pitch! We will discover what makes successful show work while avoiding the most common and time-consuming mistakes that writers make when crafting a series. SYLLABUS Week I: The art and craft of serialized short-form storytelling. Week II: Concept, world, and character. Week III: Tackling up to six seasons. (modifications for limited series) Week IV: Specificity of season one. Week V: Origin story, pilot & episode one. Week VI: Pitch week! Each week you will get feedback on your work. Work will be posted through wet.ink platform each week. Class sessions will be live via zoom. Please prepare to spend at least five hours a week outside of class working on your show. This class is limited to a small number of writers and requires an application. You do not need to have written a pilot before. We are interested in working with writers who are hardworking and have passion. |
DATES & TIMES
Saturdays from 1pm - 2:30pm* ET
May 7th - June 25th 2022
(skips May 14th & June 11th)
*Occasionally class might run long please have until 3pm ET available on workshop days.
Saturdays from 1pm - 2:30pm* ET
May 7th - June 25th 2022
(skips May 14th & June 11th)
*Occasionally class might run long please have until 3pm ET available on workshop days.
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TV/FILM WORKSHOP 5 Week workshop Want to workshop your entire TV pilot? Want to workshop half of your feature screenplay? Interested to find out how readers will experience your work? Each week we will workshop one writers entire pilot/pitch bible or half a screenplay. Writers will get feedback on their script and will learn tools demonstrated in other writers' works. You will leave with a solid plan for rewriting or polishing your script. The week of your workshop you will get specific feedback on your script. All other weeks you will learn craft techniques, practice script analysis, and help support the read of your fellow writers. Feedback from other writers will be curated in a way that helps you move forward without any opinions or egos getting in the way. All notes will be delivered by instructor Jess Hinds. Jess has mentored writers working on dozens of shows including MINDHUNTER, WEST WORLD, MAD MEN, LEVERAGE, CONSTANTINE, BROAD CITY, SNL, THE GOLDBERGS, BLUE BLOODS, GAME OF THRONES, XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, OCTOBER FACTION, WATCHMEN, HIGH MAINTENANCE and more. One week is your workshop week, all other weeks you are a reader/feedback participant. PREREQ: You must have at least 15 pages of your half hour pilot or 40 pages of your hour long completed before the start date of the workshop. Or have the majority of your TV bible written. Or at least 25 pages of a feature. The week you workshop will be decided once the workshop begins please make sure you can attend all sessions. Don't have pages yet? Take the Meditative Writing Workshop. Not yet ready to workshop but want to learn more about pilot structure, outlining, and screenwriting techniques? Join us as a non-workshop participant. You will participate in the readings, script analysis, and feedback sessions without workshopping your own script. This will help prepare you to write your own pilot! And you get to be a part of an awesome tribe of writers. DATES & TIMES
May Class - Sold Out June Class - Sold Out NEXT CLASS 5 Week Workshop Saturdays from 1pm - 2:30pm ET starting July 16th 2022 |
DATES & TIMES
January Class - SOLD OUT April Class - SOLD OUT SUMMER CLASSES TBA Live Online Via Zoom,
All times are East Coast Time. Please double check your time zone. |
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"Do this, it will make you feel less afraid and like you can work again. Jess has gotten me through some very severe, severe blocks. So these tools are valuable throughout your entire career. they are professional tools. "
- Carly Wray, MADMEN, MINDHUNTER, WATCHMEN, WESTWORLD |
"This practice has applications even beyond writing, into directing, pitching, and just being in the world. This class and subsequent practice has been extremely helpful to me in my work.”
– Christine Boylan, Writer/Producer at MARVEL/NETFLIX |
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