Killer Screenwriting
A Week-Long Interactive Workshop with Jim Mercurio (and Special Guests)

Los Angeles	New York
June 23–27, 2008	July 7 –11, 2008
Big Time Picture Company 12210-1/2 Nebraska Avenue West Los Angeles, CA 90025	Location TBA

Price
$999 by May 1st
$1200 thereafter
To register now, email jim@jamespmercurio.com. Supersize your writing today! Jim Mercurio's mile-a-minute approach jams a semester's worth of craft into just a week. As a filmmaker himself, Jim's standards for your material are high. Jim wants your material to be good enough to get an A-list actor excited to come out of his trailer to do your scene. Jim's attention to detail will make your jokes funnier, your dialogue sharper, your conflict more specific, your theme more coherent, and your script an overall better read. This is a rare chance for intensive personal interaction and instruction to accelerate your growth as a writer. At least one student's scene will be directed, shot and edited! All students will have their pages used as part of the text of the class and will have scenes workshopped with live actors. Jim produced the feature film Hard Scrambled and wrote and directed the hour of filmmaking tutorials, Making Hard Scrambled Movies. Creative Screenwriting ranked him as one of the top screenplay consultants in the country and he directed the original 41 DVDS in the Screenwriting Expo DVD series. He was a Star Speaker at Screenwriting Expos 2, 3, 4, and 5. Craft Topics
Concept, Structure, Dialogue, Genre, Scene Writing, Shurtleff's Guideposts, Action Description, Prose, Style, Character Orchestration, Dilemma, Character Arc, Theme, and Killer Endings. Career Topics
How to Get an Agent, Creative Professionalism, Managing Your Own Career, Succeeding Without Representation, Pitching.