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Monday
March 3, 2025 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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Great Scenes: The Secret Sauce
We all remember them—iconic, earth-shattering, tense, visually unforgettable scenes that define a film, a TV show, or even an entire era. Here’s how to build unexpected, stunning scenes, derived organically from your story, your characters, and all the seeds you’ve planted earlier. Go for broke with scenes that no one will ever forget!
About Your Instructor
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 was purchased by Amazon and United Airlines. As a longtime member of the writers’ room for the Writers Guild Awards, he’s written monologue jokes and sketches for countless hosts and presenters.
He’s the writer-director of the short sci-fi comedy Knead, which continues to win awards at festivals around the country and the world, including Croatia, Japan, Mexico, and Spain. Plus, he’s the creator of 365 Short Stories, where he published a new high-concept short story every single day for a year.
Through his company, Blueprint Screenwriting Group, he’s coached hundreds of screenwriters, playwrights, and novelists to complete their projects and make them truly undeniable. His clients have won Emmys, Golden Globes, and Writers Guild Awards; sold their scripts to major studios; staffed on multiple networks, streaming, and cable shows; screened/won at SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, and Cannes; and had their movies and shows made across the globe.
Timothy is a proud member of the WGAE, the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, the Hollywood Radio & Television Society, and the WGAE Softball Team.
Watch the previous installments of the Fundamentals of Screenwriting series here.
