APPEARANCES
Marilyn will present two workshops at this year's
Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe, NM
How To Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks Using the Horowitz System™
Seminar Description: Dreaming of finishing that draft? Now you can! Whether you're starting a new script, polishing a first draft ,or picking up a project thats been shelved, this seminar will teach you how to write your script fast. Based on renowned script coach and NYU Graduate Film professor Marilyn Horowitz's workbook How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks, learn advanced writing techniques that focus on character first, plot second. This seminar provides an overview of her trademarked writing technique in which 90% of her students have finished a screenplay in 10 weeks or less!
Thursday, May 29 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Writing the Treatment
Seminar Description: Jump start your professional career by learning the basics of writing a compelling treatment with veteran screenwriting coach and NYU Graduate Film professor Marilyn Horowitz. Writing a treatment can be the fast track to getting your work produced. In addition, this seminar teaches you how to tweak your logline and take your concept to the highest possible level.
Friday, May 30 3:15PM - 4:45PM
CLASSES
Finish Your Script!
Led By: Marilyn Horowitz
Get across the finish line. Whether you’ve got a polished first draft, a project that’s been “sitting on the shelf,” or you’re about to launch a query mailing, this class can help. In-class exercises delve into analyzing producer’s notes and coverage, solving long-term structure and character issues, and improving dialogue and pacing. After 9 weeks, Marilyn will read each student’s script and meet one-on-one for a detailed, 45-minute story conference.
WORKSHOPS
How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks
This intensive workshop will jumpstart your writing process using How to Write A Screenplay in 10 Weeks. The technique teaches you to go from concept to first draft of a feature-length screenplay in just 10 weeks! Using accelerated techniques that focus on character, you learn to develop plots naturally. Many of Marilyn’s students have completed first drafts of screenplays in 10 weeks or less! How to Re-Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks
This comprehensive workshop is for screenwriters who have completed a first draft and are ready to begin the crucial process of rewriting. Learn how to find and fix structure problems, bring characters to life, improve dialogue and strengthen scenes. The workshop helps students make significant changes in structure, plot and character! Writing the Treatment
Learn how to communicate your screenplay idea in a brief and compelling manner! This seminar gives you the basic information you need to write a treatment! Plus, guidance on how to market your own material writing a logline, synopsis, query letter and powerful treatment! Creative Business of Screenwriting; How to Sell Your Script
This informative seminar shows you how to accurately assess the market for your script, which production company is best suited for your project, and what you need to do to establish contacts and productive working relationships!
Topics covered include how to…
- write a great logline
- pitch effectively on the phone, in print and in person
- make effective industry contacts
- prepare your bio
- protect yourself legally, tax-wise and story-wise! Creating Great Scenes
The scene is the most basic unit of dramatic writing. Participants learn how to write an effective scene and how to take it to the next level! Students study the craft of scene writing and sequences. They write two short films using the learned techniques of set-up and pay-off, three -act structure, conflict, scene construction, dialogue and action! In Our Dreams: The writer’s journey, How to use dreams in films
Use your dreams to tap into an enormous reservoir of images, feelings, and characters! This workshop shows you how to use your dreams to enrich your writing.
You learn how to…
- remember and decode your dreams
- use your dream images to enhance a story that you’re developing
- use dream analysis techniques to get through writer’s block and self-censoring
- use a series of writing exercises to unlock your “dreaming mind” while you’re awake
You leave the workshop with a valuable “toolbox” of techniques that will enrich and enliven
your creations! How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks– The High School Edition
The Horowitz System is an original, visual writing system that teaches participants to create using their right and left brain! It easily enables students to synthesize their composition knowledge with powerful strategies for writing a screenplay! How to Write a Screenplay – From Concept to Outline (The One-Day Intensive)
Students bring their story concept and characters and leave with a complete outline for their first draft! We start with the foundations of the Horowitz System™ using the Mythic Journey Map and Archetype Chart. Once everyone has an idea of structure and characters, we then work on the individual concepts and discuss forward steps to the outline. We work in small groups, brainstorming, developing characters, working with charts and other visual aids. It's a fun, intense and creative afternoon! Everyone leaves inspired to write and has a clear vision of how to start writing the first draft! APPEARANCES
Marilyn will present two workshops at this year's
Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe, NM
How To Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks Using the Horowitz System™
Seminar Description: Dreaming of finishing that draft? Now you can! Whether you're starting a new script, polishing a first draft ,or picking up a project thats been shelved, this seminar will teach you how to write your script fast. Based on renowned script coach and NYU Graduate Film professor Marilyn Horowitz's workbook How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks, learn advanced writing techniques that focus on character first, plot second. This seminar provides an overview of her trademarked writing technique in which 90% of her students have finished a screenplay in 10 weeks or less!
Thursday, May 29 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Writing the Treatment
Seminar Description: Jump start your professional career by learning the basics of writing a compelling treatment with veteran screenwriting coach and NYU Graduate Film professor Marilyn Horowitz. Writing a treatment can be the fast track to getting your work produced. In addition, this seminar teaches you how to tweak your logline and take your concept to the highest possible level.
Friday, May 30 3:15PM - 4:45PM
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