Five Fast Fixes
Five Fast Fixes for Your Feature Film
The Keys to Developing Viable Movies
Monday, October 28th, 5-6pm (PST)
by Founder Jeffrey Gordon (JG)
Event access via zoom only–once you RSVP, zoom will control your access.
Please join JG for a short discussion of the main ingredients of storytelling that comprise the most effective and engaging movies–that along with key distinctions may also apply to TV pilots, as well as books and novels adapted for the big and small screen.
Writers Boot Camp’s unique tools have helped thousands of writers achieve their goals. Recently, JG’s review of TV Pilot writing emphasized our alumni credits in television. The above partial list of movies represent highlights of the hundreds of produced movies–from indie-style to studio fare–that were written by our alumni who did not have any credits prior to writing with us.
For perspective, it’s very difficult to enhance a project idea from the inside out, so these Five Fast Fixes for Your Feature Film are priority focal points to unify the work and the effort you’ve expended in your early draft. In addition to crucial Conceptual Questions and Distinctions, JG will share insight into the layers and connections within Character-Driven Story Structure and projects that find the intersection between the intricacy of events and the intimacy of relationship.
Writers Boot Camp’s overriding philosophy and unique set of creative tools emphasize the importance of rewriting. Yet the success of rewriting is contingent on creating a more complete idea to engage the inherent layers of your story–if you’re aware of its layers at the outset.
In other words, a prerequisite of creating a complete story is knowing how to structure an idea, including making decisions about how it works and how the principal characters are connected and interact.
Major Writers Boot Camp alumni credits include the feature films 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND, A SIMPLE FAVOR, THE BACK-UP PLAN, BLADES OF GLORY, CADILLAC RECORDS, CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER, CODA, DRUMLINE, DUE DATE, ENCINO MAN, THE FAREWELL, FIRST MAN, FREAKY FRIDAY, FRIGHT NIGHT, LONGLEGS, MAESTRO, MERCHANT IVORY, PROM, QUEEN & SLIM, ROUNDERS, RUNAWAY JURY, SEX TAPE, SON-IN-LAW, SPOTLIGHT, STEP-MOM, TILL, WONDERLAND…just to name a few.
Feel free to invite your most clever and creative friend looking for support as a writer or filmmaker, or an actor creating a platform or vehicle for success.
If you RSVP and your plans change, please let us know. Otherwise, we will be expecting you. All RSVPs will be confirmed.