Course details
This masterclass workshop addresses these questions from both the creative and business side of the industry, thus aiming to help participants to understand what ideas stand a stronger chance at selling outside one’s own market, and how to sell them.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Treatment, beat sheet, one-paragraph synopsis, logline: different ways to describe your project
- What, when and how to pitch ideas: finding the core of the story
- Writing for the international market: what to include and what to avoid
- Genre: what sells in the US, what doesn't sell abroad that sells in the US, and what sells in most markets
- How today's international co-productions outside the US are set up to fully finance "Hollywood" films and how that has affected the creative process
- Understanding how sales agents and international treaties work as a way to understand what stories have a better chance at getting financed
- Class discussion with students pitching their own projects
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Filmmakers, Screenwriters, Producers
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At Singapore Media Academy, we aim to create a lifelong learning culture that continuously seek new innovation and challenges to the methods and ways of doing things: to cultivate our participants’ ability for lateral thinking in a conducive environment for fruitful exchange of ideas and applications, to provide opportunities for critical studies that will prepare participants with relevant applied knowledge in their engagement with their professional practice, and to instill in our participants with a global and multi-cultural perspective.
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