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Storytelling I: Story Time
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Performance essays are all the rage. In this five-week Los Angeles storytelling class, solo performer, Moth Host and master storyteller Lauren Weedman will teach you how to be a storytelling pro. You’ll do fun, improvised storytelling drills, learn about the structure of performance essays, and explore ways to use your stories to boost your writing career. Lauren will show you how to transform relationships gone bad, family feuds, adventures, and...
TV II: A TV Drama Draft Writing Workshop
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
You have a killer beat sheet for your TV Pilot, but when you sit down to write, everything turns to mush: vague characters, huge data dumps, clunky dialogue, and scenes that go nowhere. If this sounds familiar, successful writing partners John Herrera and Nina Fiore (The Handmaid’s Tale) can help. In this ten-week Online TV Draft Writing Workshop, you’ll get John and Nina’s help crafting an amazing outline and writing scenes that have...
Introduction to Portraiture for Teens (ages 12-18)
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Do you enjoy photographing your friends and family, or have you wanted to start? Do you want to take compelling photos of people? Do you like taking pictures and want to step up your skills to make beautiful images? Then this class is for you. Together in this hands-on workshop, we will explore different approaches to photographing people. We’ll study composition, light, style, and technique. Students will develop their artistic styles and technical...
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Grand Slam Story: A Storytelling Workshop (5 WK)
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Want to tell powerful true stories without schmaltz to a packed audience of adoring fans? Let essayist and three time Moth Grand Slam Winner Cole Kazdin share her tips for turning heartbreak, humiliation, and tragedy into a riveting five-minute piece that is the perfect mix of vulnerability and comedic vavoom. In this four week class, you’ll learn how to find what’s funny in your foibles, structure a compelling story and connect solidly...
Podcasting 2: Finish Your Podcast Episode 1
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Is it your dream to create the next Serial, This American Life, or Startup? If so, this is the class for you! In this five-week San Francisco Podcasting 2 Class, “The Intersection” Podcast host and producer David Boyer will teach you how to take your pilot outline and ideas for your podcast to the next level, using the tools of this engaging new storytelling form. Through informative craft lectures, targeted in-class feedback, deconstructing...
TV Comedy Pitching
You’ve worked hard to hone that super-fly pilot premise with hysterical characters, a compelling world, and an amazing pilot episode. So what’s next? A pitch meeting with a network exec, perhaps? Enter Natalie Gergely, Director of Development for Abominable Pictures and Former Manager of Development at Comedy Central and Nathan Varni, current Director Development, ABC. In this three week Los Angeles comedy pitching class, Natalie will...
TV Writer’s Assistant: Writer's Room Survival Bootcamp
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Is it your dream to write the next Game of Thrones or Girls? If you are like most people, the first step on your road to executive producer is getting your foot in the door. Enter TV Writer Tyler Dinucci (American Gods, Drop Dead Diva), who will guide you on that journey to getting that first assistant gig and begin your paid journey to executive producer. In this three-week Online Writers’ Assistant Class, Tyler takes you through the paces by...
Novel II: Intermediate Novel Writing Workshop
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Are you working on a novel and looking for guidance? In this intermediate novel writing class, successful novelist Gretchen McNeil (9 Novels Published) will help you nudge your book to the finish line! This is a workshop-only class for experienced novelists. Gretchen will also give students custom homework exercises to address the specific difficulties that they’re having as well provide a technical understanding of how to solve these problems....
Get Your Webisode On
Writing Pad @ 688 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Got a cell phone, a laptop, and the desire to create the next Broad City? Or maybe you are looking for a way to show off your acting chops? Then this Webisode Workshop in Los Angeles is for you! Successful actor and writer, Lou Perez will show you how to develop the next breakout web series. Through fun, in-class writing prompts, you’ll tease out a killer idea and brainstorm the perfect first episode for your pilot and develop compelling characters...
$100
Intermediate Digital Photography for Teens (12-18)
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
In this sequential class to Basic Digital Photography for Teens, students will receive reinforcement in the concepts from the previous class and push toward the next level of photographic expression. Using the camera to interpret the world around them, students will work toward mastering technical skills while engaging in creative and thought-provoking assignments. Participants will explore the major genres of photography, including but not...
Swimming wit the Sharks: A Hollywood Career
Want to score that staff writer gig on a top TV Show, work as a creative exec for a major studio, or get representation so you can sell some screenplays? If you’re not already connected, breaking into Hollywood is nearly impossible. Development Executive Nikki Levy (Imagine Entertainment) can help you ace that first interview for an assistant or staff writer gig, nail that “general” meeting with an agent, and hit the ground running. In this...
Sunday Morning Pages: A Creative Writing Workshop
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
You can craft an awesome email and your party stories are a hoot. But every time you sit down to write, nothing comes out. Have no fear! Writer of a thousand talents, Brett Paesel can help. Her four week creative writing workshop will unlock the great stories inside of you and get them on the page. Through fun in-class exercises, you’ll craft characters that pop off the page, create scenes packed with scandalous conflict and descriptions so vivid...
Literary Novel 101
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Note: This is primarily a lecture class with some in-class exercises but not everyone will get to share their writing for feedback due to the seminar format. Is it your dream to write the great American novel? In this 1 day Online lecture format Intro Novel Intensive, successful novelist Katherine Taylor will teach you the fundamentals of long form fiction! She’ll also teach you techniques for creating a thrilling story arc, irresistible dialogue,...
$95
Creating Powerful Travel Images
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Learn the concepts and techniques to consistently create powerful and compelling travel images. Whether you enjoy shooting wildlife, landscape, people or any other kind of travel photography, instructor Mark Edward Harris will explain what goes into making great travel pictures – from a complete digital workflow solution to finding and shaping your personal artistic voice. The workshop will place heavy emphasis on creating images with “purpose”....
$295
The Crash Street: A One-Day Adventure
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Join photographer Michelle Groskopf in a new one-day class designed to provide students with the basics of street photography in just eight hours. Taught by a different street photographer each season, the class is intended to teach students how to shoot candidly while learning some valuable technical information about photographing on the street. The day will be divided among lectures, a field session, and group critique. The class begins...
$295
TV Drama Pitching: Sell It In the Room
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
You’ve worked hard to hone that super-fly Drama or Dramedy pilot premise with great characters, a compelling world, and an amazing pilot episode. So what’s next, a pitch meeting with a network exec, perhaps? How about a huge opportunity to learn pitching, branding techniques and pitch your show in front of an executive who develops shows for ABC? Enter Nathan Varni Director of Current Programming, Disney-ABC Television Group. In this two-day...
From the Page to the Stage: A One-Person Show Workshop
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Are you an actor or a comedian yearning for your 15 minutes of fame? A solo-show could help launch your career and get you the attention that you deserve. Or maybe you have a solo show but want to take it to the next level? In this intensive one-day Los Angeles Solo Show Workshop, actress and writer Lauren Weedman (The Kominsky Method, 10 award-winning solo shows) will show you how to make your solo-show so hysterical and moving, the audience will...
$225
Coverage Madness: A Script Coverage Workshop
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
Dreaming of being a director, screenwriter, producer, or even landing a writer’s assistant gig? Your calling card into this brutally competitive field is your “coverage skills,” the ability to evaluate written material for actors, directors, showrunners, producers, and studio execs. In this one-day class, veteran development exec Nikki Levy (“Frost/Nixon”, “Epic”) will teach you the ABC’s of this invaluable skill, as well as the studio...
$90
Screenwriting Representation
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
This class will prepare you to write a feature length movie Do you have that killer pilot or movie script that’s dying to be sold but you have no idea how to get it to the right person? The best way to get a manager is to know one. Enter Chad Snopek, manager of Mark Friedman (Executive Producer, Fox’s “Wayward Pines”) and producer, to take you through the process of finding literary representation. In this Los Angeles TV and Screenwriter...
$225
What's Happening: A Scene Writing Clinic
Screenwriting is scene writing. Your story comes to life through well crafted moments, authentic dialog, rising and falling conflict, and strong emotional beats. In this one day scene writing workshop, veteran screenwriter Wayne Powers (The Italian Job) will show you how to build your story from the inside out, making each scene a microcosm of your larger story. Through an engaging lecture, he’ll share his secrets to writing the perfect scene....
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