Event Details
Monday
November 1, 2021 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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Stop Playing It Safe
Some of the topics and techniques we’ll cover include:
- Make a seriously bold choice that purposely divides your audience—earning you fans for life
- 3 innovative brainstorming exercises to help you exploit your premise to the max
- Embrace your inner devil: Truly put your characters through the ringer!
- Top 10 techniques to follow your story to its extreme and logical end
- Surprise even yourself with the strength of your voice
- Embrace a MAJOR twist that blows everyone away
- Take huge risks with your structure…and reap equally huge rewards
…and a whole lot more. I hope to see you there!
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 development as a sitcom. Plus, he’s been part of the writers’ room for the Writers Guild Awards for the past six years, writing monologue jokes and sketches for numerous hosts/presenters.
Through his company, Blueprint Screenwriting Group, he’s taught hundreds of writers. His clients and students have sold their scripts to major studios; staffed on multiple network and cable TV shows; screened/won at SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, etc.; and got their movies and shows made across the globe.
Timothy is a proud member of the WGAE, the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective Writers’ Workshop, 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.
