
10 Tips For a Winning “Elevator” Pitch
Learn the secrets of a winning pitch for contests and festivals, and prepare your pitch for our upcoming Pitch Festivus! event.
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Talk to Me Part 1: The Vital Role of Your First 10 Pages
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Learn the vital importance of your screenplay’s first 10 pages, and what it takes to make them successful on both a commercial and creative level.
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The Bear, Season 2: Overcoming Self Doubt As a Screenwriter
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Learn to escape the “refrigerator” of doubt and negativity that gets in the way of your screenwriting through Jake’s analysis of The Bear, Season 2.
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Barbenheimer: The Art of Adaptation
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Learn from Barbie and Oppenheimer the vital role of theme in writing a screenplay adaptation.
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3: How to Write Flashbacks and Exposition
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Learn how to write flashbacks that work and how to handle exposition in your screenplay from Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3.
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Shrinking Part 2: Five Tips For Writing Better Dialogue and Exploding Cliché
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Jake compares the famous “adventure book” scene from Pixar’s Up! and the photo-album scene from Shrinking to show you how to turn a familiar scene into something fresh and new.
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Shrinking Part 1: Is Writing Like Therapy?
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Learn from Shrinking about therapeutic and anti-therapeutic writing structures, the challenges of writing therapy scenes, and the links between writing and therapy.
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