Ellen Sandler's Developing an Original TV Pilot One-Day Intensive

If you want to make TV $$ as a staff writer or sell original ideas take this class!

Details

Presented by: The Writers Store

Start date: Sep 26, 2009 10:00 AM

End date: Sep 26, 2009 6:00 PM

Location:
The Writers Store
2040 Westwood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
United States
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Phone: 310-441-5151

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Description

"I am ONLY interested in reading original material. Feature scripts are okay but since time is a factor... it is better to have a spec pilot."
-- Bruce Brown, Veteran Agent and Manager

If you want to make TV $$ as a staff writer or sell original ideas - an original spec pilot is the current must have sample script!

Whether your pilot is a one hour, a half hour, or a three minute webisode, there's a whole lot of development that is crucial before you sit down to write your pilot script.

Under Ellen's guidance you'll learn her proven tactics for transforming your ideas into a great original pilot. It won't all be easy but it's guaranteed to be creative, surprising and fun!

Your idea doesn't have to be worked out yet. That's what this development workshop is designed to help you do. But it's not a beginner's class; you'll get the most out of the class if you've had some kind of previous training or experience.

ELLEN HAS TAKEN HER FOUR-DAY WORKSHOP AND CONDENSED IT INTO A ONE-DAY INTENSIVE. HERE'S WHAT SHE'LL COVER IN THIS NEW ONE DAY FORMAT:

-Your Premise - the key to your pilot's development--how to find it, focus it and pitch it.

-Your Central Character - how to add strength and dimension to the single most important element of your pilot.

-Your Supporting Characters - how to create an interconnected "family" for your pilot - the foundation of every successful TV show.

-The World of your Show - Locations, Rituals, Tone, Style - everything that makes it a show.

-Story Lines - you'll find out how to develop pitchable story lines and use them to discover how your show works.

-You'll gain insider secrets on how you can use your finished pilot to advance your career.

COURSE DETAILS:

Where:
The Writers Store
2040 Westwood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310-441-5151

When:
Saturday, September 26, 2009
10 am to 6 pm

Tuition: $150

ELLEN SANDLER received an Emmy nomination as Co-Executive Producer for the CBS hit series Everybody Loves Raymond. Prior to that, she was a writer/producer for ABC's long running comedy, Coach, and many other prime time network television series. Her play How'd It Go, starring Megan Mullally, premiered at The Warner Bros./HBO Workspace and was picked up for pilot development by Oxygen Network. Additionally, she has created pilots for ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox Family, the Disney Channel, and has consulted on pilots internationally for the ABC Australia, the CBC Canada, Media Marketing Dubai, UAE, and MediaCorp, Singapore. She has also supervised development with producers in Germany and Japan. Currently she is the Executive Producer and Director of Marisa Rules, an original comedy webisode series; and she is the author of The TV Writer's Workbook: A Creative Approach to Television Scripts (Bantam/Dell).

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