A two-day practical and professional development workshop for screenwriters wanting to break into TV, get noticed, represented, commissioned and produced.
Writing is an art form to master, a craft to hone, but it’s a business too. Step into the professional world of film and TV with Eleanor, where the crossroads of story and commerce meet, demystify how and why it all works, and fast track your career and projects.
Eleanor Greene is a Drama Exec Producer with over 25 years experience working with writers creating ideas from scratch and bringing them to screen.
When: April 25th and 26th (Weekend)
Where: Ealing Studios, London W5 5EP
Tickets: £147 (earlybird then £177)
What happens over the two days?
Dive in at the deep end of scripted TV and film and build YOUR pathway to success.
A practical, interactive series of workshops that will help you distinguish good ideas from GREAT ones, and then show you how to spin them into TV gold.
We will exercise YOUR ideation muscle so that you can rapidly evolve industry-friendly pitches. Producers don’t want just one killer project. They want to invest in you and multiple killer projects, building meaningful long-term professional relationships.
Eleanor will help you hone your skills to evolve original projects and pivot confidently on existing ones for an ever-shifting, hungry creative landscape.
Experience the real-world production process with Eleanor from concept and pitch to script and screen, for the BAFTA nominated The Windermere Children. You will be given access to never-before-seen documents, edits, and privy to the whole process so that you will FEEL like you were one of the team making the film.
Key Elements Include:
- WHO makes the decisions about what gets made, and how?
- WHERE YOUR best ideas come from, and how to turn them into TV gold. The distinction between an idea that sells, one that doesn’t, and why.
- WHAT genre is your show? Understanding how industry sees genres, and why failing to pitch correctly could kill your project.
- WHY budget impacts greenlight decisions, and how story type impacts budget.
- HOW to pitch. Turning your story into a sellable pitch.
- WHEN not to say no! Meaningful collaboration: how not to get fired.
The Plot Thickens with Eleanor Greene is for those who have a killer script that just needs that extra nudge, or an idea they that need help with to craft into a industry catnip
What is included?
- Overview of the drama business and deep analysis of current Commissioning trends so that YOU can write for the market.
- Insight into the relationship between budget and the greenlightability of a project so that YOU can write to get produced.
- Deep understanding of the distinctions between TV centric genres, and types of stories, so that YOU can pitch into existing formats, slots and established convention.
- Packaging: learning how to refine your pitch into a few simple sellable words, so that YOUR pitch hooks in seconds.
- Eleanor is a creative producer with 25 years of producing experience and will show you what a producer is looking for (and why).
- Live pitching session. Eleanor will help you turn your idea into a pitch, LIVE.
- Experience the production process from concept to screen using BAFTA nominated, award winning The Windermere Children as a working example so that YOU can better think like a producer.
