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3 Class sessions, Open Q&A, Feedback on loglines and ideas. A recording of a weekend of pitch education with two executives who pitch for a living.

Three 1.5 hour sessions designed to give you the tools and to walk you through how to create your pitch materials. You will receive a blueprint on how to create this material for any and all of your projects. Co-VP's of Development with Creative Screenwriter Prods, and 9-year ISA executives, Felicity Wren and Max Timm spend 3 class sessions on Zoom discussing and giving feedback on loglines, pitches, pitch decks on features and Series. All of the elements of putting together the best pitch for you and your project will be discussed and any/all questions you have about the industry in general will be answered! Purchase the recordings of this class and keep it forever!

Class - 9:30am PT to 11:00am PT: Friday, March 31, Saturday, April 1, and Sunday, April 2

    1. Your Class Schedule and Important Info

    2. Voice and Pressure Points Discussion

    3. Audio: Voice - Finding It, Evolving It, Embracing It

    4. The Hook: What is it? How Do I Find It? What Do I Do With It?

    5. Audio for The Hook: What Is It? How Do I Find It? What Do I Do With It?

    6. Recording of the Day 1 Live Session

    1. Essential Elements that Create Your Pitch

    2. Your Logline

    3. Breaking Down Your Logline

    4. Audio: Breaking Down Your Logline

    5. Hook Statements, The Recurring Moment, and The Heart of Your Pitch

    6. Recording of Day 2 Session

    1. Pitch Examples, Breakdowns, and Summaries

    2. The Pitch - Yourself, Your Project, Your Career

    3. Goals - Changing Your Perspective

    4. A Note on Motivation

    5. Audio for A Note on Motivation

    6. Recording of Day 3 Session

About this course

  • $59.00
  • Learn how to Pitch Like A Pro with ISA's Max Timm & Felicity Wren

Benefits

Prepare yourself and your project by learning from two ISA executives who are in the mix of regularly pitching to studios and production companies

  • Logline development and feedback

  • Verbal pitch planning for TV or Features

  • What goes into your pitch decks and how they're structured

  • A look behind the industry curtain with open Q&A discussion

Reviews of ISA Craft Courses

5 star rating

Excellent advice and training!

Lindsay Waite

Although I've been writing for, well, forever, and have several screenplays under my belt, this class provided me with great insight into writing a marketabl...

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Although I've been writing for, well, forever, and have several screenplays under my belt, this class provided me with great insight into writing a marketable product. It also gives me information on the industry as a whole and points to other avenues of learning and networking. I started the class without knowing that a goal was a completed first draft. I'm not yet through with my research on my new screenplay idea, so I was pleased to learn that when I am ready in a few months to draft the new screenplay, I can review the class again. Thanks Max and all at ISA who contributed to this material!

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4 star rating

Great course

Melissa Birks

Using relevant examples and in-depth knowledge of the form and function of a screenplay, Max Timm takes a writer from the germ of an idea to a full script. E...

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Using relevant examples and in-depth knowledge of the form and function of a screenplay, Max Timm takes a writer from the germ of an idea to a full script. Especially powerful is the way he breaks down a screenplay into organizational sequences. Overall, the course is accessible, understandable, and practical. I would encourage writers to try it.

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5 star rating

Next Level Development

David Baugnon

I've been a screenwriter for 20 years (and a teacher of screenwriting for 10 of those years), and who you choose to share your screenplay with for notes is a...

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I've been a screenwriter for 20 years (and a teacher of screenwriting for 10 of those years), and who you choose to share your screenplay with for notes is a crucial decision, one I don't take lightly. In the wrong hands, your ideas can get crushed or worse, praised. What every writer needs is that talented person who can help take your work to the next level, no matter how far it's been developed. I've only been working with Max and The Story Farm for a few months, but I already feel like I have a champion in Max - someone who believes in my work and knows how to push me, and the work, forward.

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Instructors

Lead Mentor and Instructor Max Timm

Max Timm is the Director of Education with International Screenwriters’ Association, and the President of The Story Farm Development and Coaching service, with 17 years of experience in developing written material and writers’ careers. His focus with the ISA is to shepherd writers to industry professionals, offering exposure alongside career-long education. His personal coaching, consulting, and development service, The Story Farm, develops writers and their material much like a studio executive or literary manager would, walking a writer through the development process one draft at a time. His online class, The Craft Course in Screenwriting, offers writers an in-depth yet easy to understand approach to professional full development. In order to connect with as many aspiring writers as possible, he also helped create and launch the ISA’s popular podcast network - an interview-focused podcast, as well as his solo podcast, The Craft. Aside from focusing on education, Max has joined forces with his ISA cohorts to launch a production and development shingle called Creative Screenwriter where they develop and produce low to mid-range budgeted films written by ISA’s top members. Max is also a screenwriter and author. His debut novel, a young adult fantasy adventure titled The WishKeeper, about a teenage fairy with broken wings, won the YA category of the 2015 Los Angeles Book Festival and released nationwide in the Summer of 2016. Max has also served as a part-time instructor at UCLA, and travels nationally speaking at various industry events such as the Sundance Film Festival, Nashville Writers Conference, and the Napa Valley Film Festival. Most recently Max released his debut book on screenwriting titled, "(Not Just) Another Book on The Craft of Screenwriting."

VP of Development Felicity Wren

Felicity is the VP of Development at the ISA and Co-VP of Development for Creative Screenwriter Productions. An award-winning actor, originally from London, she studied all areas of Performance for her Honors and then Master’s Degrees. She then formed her own Production Company, Unrestricted View, which runs a theatre in London and curates three film festivals annually. Since moving to Los Angeles over a decade ago, Felicity has continued acting and producing, winning five performance awards and producing sixteen film projects to date. She splits her time between Creative Screenwriter Productions and the management of the ISA Development Team, working directly with the Development Slate Writers, ISA Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch, and the ISA community. The Development Team has fostered enduring relationships with many of the industry’s finest, ensuring their writers' projects get in front of eminent producers, managers and agents in Hollywood. Through Felicity and her team’s efforts, they have successfully paired several writer/director partnerships with productions underway, introduced writers to their managers, and have been instrumental in facilitating screenplay options with their contacts at C2 Motion Pictures, Fear Not Productions, Ethea Entertainment, Endless Media and Adam Krentzman Films. Felicity has been pitching CSP’s slate of projects to Hulu, Doozer Productions, DreamWorks, Groundswell and Fuzzy Door, to name a few. Felicity regularly appears on panels for the ISA and others, most recently for Vancouver Women in Film.

3 Sessions of Pitch Development, Education, and Community