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General Assembly @ Online Classroom, Los Angeles, CA
WordPress is the premier content management system for those seeking an easy, user-friendly way to set up and maintain a website. In this class, you’ll walk through the basics of getting your site live quickly and discover various free templates as well as premium resources that require little to no coding skills and will have your site looking polished and professional. Once your site has gone live, you’ll learn how to update and maintain it...
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
The spec script market is hot right now, but to play the game, you have to have a finished movie script. In this five-week screenwriting bootcamp in Los Angeles, veteran screenwriter Wayne Powers (“The Italian Job”) will help you shepherd your amazing screenplay from concept to outline and teach you how to sell it. We’ll explore your ideas, beat out your story and solidify your theme. Wayne will share his personal techniques for crafting an...
Learn to speak about what you know, how to become a trainer with seminar companies, book paid engagements, work with bureaus and agents, create profitable support products like books and audio products.
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Explore Communications Private Group EventsLos Angeles City College @ 855 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Learn how to get a book or writing published, using copyright and trademark law, e-publishing and electronic commerce. With new services promising to help writers self-publish or distribute their e-books even better than before, it’s imperative that writers educate themselves about how these services typically operate.
Whether you have experience in social media or are looking to get started for the first time, this workshop will put you on the fast track to honing your social media skills. In this bootcamp, students will be introduced to the current social media landscape and explore how it can be used for maximum results for brands. Are you ready to learn the tricks, tips and techniques businesses are using to build brands and sell more on social? Topics to...
Makers Mess @ 602 N Hoover St, Los Angeles, CA
In this workshop with David Crabb, students will learn advanced mining exercises to help find the meaningful stories from their lives. Through exercises & brief lectures about structure, details and truth, each student will leave class with a compelling 6-10 minute story. Learn advanced techniques to mine for stories from your past experiences. Find out how to craft your story in a way that will keep your audience engaged. Explore performance...
Training Connection @ 915 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
If you’re suffering from “same old PowerPoint” syndrome, this course could be the perfect cure! Prezi is a dynamic presentation platform that forgoes traditional slides in favor of an open canvas concept—allowing presenters to communicate their messages in exciting new ways. This course will teach users how to setup a Prezi account, create a presentation via the online editor and output their presentations for playback on computers, iPads...
headTrix, Inc | Adobe Certified Training @ 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA
WordPress Level 1 training will teach you the knowledge and practical experience necessary to begin creating your website or blog. Learn to select the right WordPress theme for your objectives, organize web content in an intuitive way, add images and video to your site and manage a growing community of commenters and visitors. WordPress Level 1 is a powerful, open-source blogging tool, & has a powerful set of content management features and...
headTrix, Inc | Adobe Certified Training @ 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA
You have a basic understanding of how your social network, now it’s time to put it all together to make it really work for you. This Level 2 Master Class helps you refine and target your audience, develop a long-term marketing strategy, and put it into action. Our Social Media Expert will do an analysis of your current website and network, then help you make adjustments to increase leads. Audience: Social Media Marketing | Level 2 is for...
headTrix, Inc | Adobe Certified Training @ 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA
This course will cover the basics of social media marketing, explore techniques for employing social media as a marketing tool and present ways to develop strategy. Designing your Facebook landing page, creating a YouTube channel, setting up a Twitter account, and how to update them all together and use them to promote your business or film! Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, You Tube, Blogs.... these social platforms are doing more than driving buzz...
headTrix, Inc | Adobe Certified Training @ 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA
You have a basic understanding of how your social network, now it’s time to put it all together to make it really work for you. This Level 2 Master Class helps you refine and target your audience, develop a long-term marketing strategy, and put it into action. Our Social Media Expert will do an analysis of your current website and network, then help you make adjustments to increase leads. Audience: Social Media Marketing | Level 2 is for...
Los Angeles Center of Photography
This course is designed for those who would like their work to make a difference and to improve their visual storytelling skills in the process. We will meet six times over a six-month period, both in-person as well as virtually, with a field work session where we will explore some of the techniques and tools together on location.
The Story Source @ 555 W 5th St, Los Angeles, CA
Storytelling for Business People: Presentations to Elevator Pitches Not all pitches are created equal. You may think you’ve got a unique product, service or business idea but if you can’t tell a compelling story, your message will get lost in translation. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use stories and narrative techniques to capture the attention and interest of your audience. In this workshop, you'll gain knowledge of the different...
The Story Source @ 555 W 5th St, Los Angeles, CA
The thought of speaking in front of an audience can throw normally calm and confident people into a frenzy. In this workshop, participants will get expert coaching and feedback on ways to strengthen their public speaking skills, from techniques to ease frayed nerves to exercises designed to build confidence and improve focus. We’ll start the workshop with improvisational games designed to build self-confidence and sharpen listening skills before...
Writing Pad @ 1132 Van Pelt Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Want to have an engaging short story to pitch yourself on the fly when running into a creative exec, showrunner or agent at a party, networking event or in a meeting? How do you use your stories to pitch in a room or get staffed? Let 2x Moth GrandSLAM winner, Moth Host and successful screenwriter Matteson Perry share his tips for turning moments of your life into riveting elevator pitches that will leave listeners begging for more. You’ll practice...
General Assembly @ Online Classroom, Los Angeles, CA
Course Name: Resume & Linkedin Fundamentals:Telling Your Professional Story The average time recruiters spend reviewing your resume is 6 seconds. Yes, 6 seconds. And LinkedIn? 94% (maybe more) of recruiters vet candidates using LinkedIn. So, what does this mean for you? You need your Resume and your LinkedIn Profile to be strategically crafted when you’re job hunting or even just networking. Maybe you’re trying to make a transition, explore...
Do you have a great idea for HBO's next hit series? Let successful TV writer Jason Grote (“Mad Men”, “Smash”) help you transform your brilliant premise into a page-turning script! You’ll sample the different genres of TV dramas, plan a season arc that keeps the audience hooked, and break your pilot story just like they do in the writer’s room. Jason will show you how to dramatize your life’s details, create realistic dialogue, and...
Learn about collaboration, making demos, copyright and publishing rights contracts. Learn how to make money through your talent and how to avoid classic scams and rip-offs common in the industry. This seminar teaches songwriters, musicians, and anyone interested in music, effective ways to establish a career in the world of professional songwriting.
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Have you ever wanted to have your story aired on “This American Life”? In this class, KCRW “Unfictional” Producer Bob Carlson will show you how. Through fun, in-class exercises, you’ll learn the differences between performed and broadcast storytelling. By the end of the class, you’ll have produced and recorded a story for the air waves that you can send out. Pretty soon, you just might get a call from Ira Glass. Price includes snacks...
Los Angeles City College @ 855 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA
If you want to develop a bulletproof presentation, come learn the right way to pitch your project, get people interested in you, and make a deal instead of a mess. Find out how to approach, and what to expect in/from a pitch meeting, whether scheduled or impromptu. You only get one chance to make a first impression - don’t blow it!
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