Description
This intensive four-week bootcamp meets weekly on Sundays from 11am – 1pm PDT. Bring your movie and pilot ideas! Each student should expect to answer follow-up clarifying questions, and be coached on both your story and your presentation technique. This bootcamp helps you develop the skills and organization techniques you need to get “good in a room” and deliver compelling pitches. If your script needs a rewrite, you may benefit more from Conor’s Rewrite Bootcamp.
No documents are required, but if you are going to pitch be sure to have the following ready:
- Title
- Genre (comps or clarification of tone if needed)
- Logline
- 1-2 minutes verbal pitch of your story. (You won’t have time to describe every single scene, just the key moments that convey why this specific journey will be so fun and interesting.)
Week 1: Organization (April 10)
Join Conor and guest instructor Scott Barkan for a two-hour live class on pitching technique and organization. Think of your story as a big box. Within that big box is a smaller box that represents a less complicated version of the story. Inside that box is an even smaller box, representing an even more uncomplicated version of the story and so on. Instead of diving right in and presenting the story as a whole, we begin with the smallest box, the simplest version of the story. Long and intricate details bring about a quick and painful death to a pitch. Learn how to organize your pitch to hold the listener’s interest, as your story slowly blossoms from the most fundamental expression to more granular details.
How to enroll in the 4-week Pitch Bootcamp:
• You can either purchase this course “a la carte”
• Or start your free trial Unlimited Script Camp membership (includes access to all classes and bootcamps, plus the weekly Writers Lab and an extensive video library, over 70 hours of live classes per month): https://scriptcamp.net/membership/
• Then join us on discord, meet Conor and your fellow students: https://discord.gg/Qy3E35DZna
About the Instructors:
Conor Kyle received the Humanitas Prize for playwriting in 2020. She has premiered over a dozen shorts in the DC area, and her first full-length play “Good Dogs” was produced by the Class Act Players in 2018. In addition to conducting workshops for longform improv, she has taught improv and theater skills to students with a school called Acting for Young People. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she plans to continue to explore the theater industry and dedicatedly build her portfolio of scripts.
Scott Barkan is a professional screenwriter based in Los Angeles. He and his writing partner, Gregg Zehentner, have two produced features to their name, in addition to having sold and optioned numerous original feature screenplays. Their psychological horror feature, “I’m Just F*cking With You”, was produced by Blumhouse and Hulu, and premiered at SXSW in 2019 as a Narrative Spotlight Feature Selection. Their most recent spec, “The Sun Always Sets in the West”, is currently set up at Lionsgate, with Danny McBride attached to produce and direct. Barkan is a member of the WGA and was repped by Mainstay Entertainment and CAA. Until he fired them.
Connor Rohan is a Los Angeles-based comedy television writer. He was formerly a writers’ assistant on ABC’s American Housewife, and now serves as a writers assistant on the ABC comedy Everything’s Trash. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram at @FlawlessMorals..
Course Schedule:
Week 1: Organization (April 10)
Join Conor and guest instructor Scott Barkan for a two-hour live class on pitching technique and organization. Think of your story as a big box. Within that big box is a smaller box that represents a less complicated version of the story. Inside that box is an even smaller box, representing an even more uncomplicated version of the story and so on. Instead of diving right in and presenting the story as a whole, we begin with the smallest box, the simplest version of the story. Long and intricate details bring about a quick and painful death to a pitch. Learn how to organize your pitch to hold the listener’s interest, as your story slowly blossoms from the most fundamental expression to more granular details.
Week 2: Performance (April 17)
Remember that verbal storytelling is different from a screenplay. The pitch lives or dies with your performance in the room. You’ve likely spent years writing scripts and honing your writing skills, and now you must develop a new skillset in order to hold a listener’s interest during a pitch. This might seem intimidating, but with proper preparation and practice, you will be able to hold your own in a room.
Week 3: Advanced Techniques (April 24)
Learn how to incorporate essential details about your setting or characters without killing the pitch. If certain background information is really necessary, it needs to be handled with clarity and brevity. Some scripts might require a brief and simplistic presentation of the world, a monster or a special presentation of the main character, in order for the listener to understand the hook in the context of the story.
Week 4: Final Pitch
In this final class Conor Kyle and special guest instructor Connor Rohan will coach you on your final pitch presentation and your writing career goals. Connor R. will also take you inside the TV writers room
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