From Idea to Completed Script:
An Interactive Screenwriting Workshop

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Sponsored by Central Coast Writers
StoryEdge and ESE Film Workshops Online

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Date:	June 7, 2008
Time:	11am - 5pm
Location:	Casa Munras , Monterey, CA
Cost:	Public: $125  Members of CCW, StoryEdge or ESE  Lunch Included for all Participants

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Veteran producers/studio executives Monika Skerbelis and Cari-Esta Albert lead a one-day interactive workshop to give writers the tools to overcome procrastination, writer’s block and general insecurity in order to successfully create and complete a screenplay. During each session of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to reference beats of their individual projects. 

Topics include:

·    Loglines – description, examples of loglines and their function in conception and execution of a successful draft.

·    Theme – You need to know what you want to say if you want someone to pay you to say it.

·    Major Turning Points - Building Blocks are your friends. How to create the inciting incident, first and second act breaks and how to keep your story on track.

·    Creating Characters – Write roles that actors want to play.  Guide to character development and use of dialogue to create character arc.

·    Everything in the middle – How to brainstorm plot beats so you never get stuck along the way.

Finding And Developing New Ideas: 

This session will involve how to look for ideas in everyday life, articles, advertising, newspapers and magazines and how to get these ideas out of your head and on paper.  Valuable tips and resources will be discussed for writers, producers and directors to organize their ideas in order to jump-start the process of writing the screenplay.

Navigating Hollywood: 

Get Ready For Success. You’ve finally written your screenplay… now what happens?  Cari-Esta and Monika have participated in the filmmaking experience on both sides of the table and can provide a crash course in what happens to a screenplay when it is submitted to a studio. Learn the techniques to triumph in your interactions with agents, managers, producers, executives, publishers and editors, along with the dynamics of these relationships.    

Cari-Esta Albert is the producer of The Truth About Cats and Dogs (20^th Century Fox), executive producer of Heart and Souls (Universal Studios) and Love Is Strange (Lifetime Network). As an executive at Geffen Pictures, Universal Pictures, Alphaville and USA Network, she worked on the development and production of an extensive slate of pictures including, Defending Your Life, Interview With The Vampire, Gorillas In The Mist, The Last Boy Scout, Executive Decision, The Mummy, Parenthood, and Men Don’t Leave. Ms. Albert is the principal of StoryEdge which offers in depth review and personal consultation on film or television scripts and treatments, manuscripts or book proposals, along with advice regarding industry practice, marketing strategy, query letters, and pursuing agents/managers, producers, financiers etc.

Monika Skerbelis is the co-author of I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out and co-founder of ESE Film Workshops Online, an online film school helping writers and filmmakers improve their knowledge in 4 to 6 weeks without leaving their home – Just “Click, Type, Download & Read.” Ms. Skerbelis is a former Vice President of Creative and Executive Story Editor for Universal Pictures’ story department where she spent ten years overseeing the story development and developing a number of screenplays including Black Dog starring Patrick Swayze. Prior to Universal, she was Story Editor for 20^th Century Fox and began her career as an assistant in the Story Department for Paramount Pictures. She is on her ninth year as the artistic and programming director for the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival & Screenplay Competition and teaches feature film development at UCLA Extension, Riverside Community College and taught a Basic Screenwriting course at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts. ESE also provides consultations and is actively producing projects for film & television.  
 
To register, send your check payable to CCW Branch CWC to:

CCW June 7th Workshop
735 Bayview Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950

Questions? Call (831) 678-0632 or 333-1989 or visit centralcoastwriters.org.