Event Details
Monday
October 7, 2024 5:00 pm
via Zoom
RSVP
The Climax: Write an Unforgettable Part 3
It all leads to this: the final act of your pilot or feature. Your climactic endgame needs to feel both surprising and inevitable—which is why it can feel so difficult to master. We’ll go over some of the best Act 3s ever written, including all of their shocking twists, showdowns, devastating losses, and uplifting triumphs—to better understand how to design your own surprising, satisfying final act. Make your finale the talk of the town!
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 TV development. As a longtime member of the writers’ room for the Writers Guild Awards, he’s written monologue jokes, desk pieces, and sketches for countless hosts and presenters.
He’s also the writer-director of the short sci-fi comedy Knead, which just started its festival run at two Academy Award-qualifying festivals: Indy Shorts and HollyShorts. And he’s the creator of 365 Short Stories, where he published a new high-concept short story every single day last year.
Through his company, Blueprint Screenwriting Group, he’s taught hundreds of screenwriters and novelists. His clients have sold their scripts to major studios; staffed on multiple network, streaming, and cable shows; screened/won at SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, etc.; 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.
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.
