ScreenwritingU is proud to sponsor the
2010 Expo Screenplay Competition.
The 2010 Expo Screenplay Competition provides some amazing prizes, including $20,000 in CASH for the Grand Prize winner. The Genre Prize winners receive $2,500 in cash. All five of them include a media campaign, industry access, trips to Los Angeles for the Screenwriting Expo and many other prizes.
It's a great contest and well worth entering.
Additionally, ScreenwritingU is providing submitting the following prizes for the winners:
Grand Prize Winner
The Grand Prize winner will receive entry into the six-month long ProSeries class. (Value: $1100)
The ProSeries helps you build a script from the foundation up. Every 'brick' is laid on the preceding 'brick' in a logical, compelling sequence that – when finished – results in a knockout script.
So what are these 'bricks'?
Stage One: Create the foundation of a Marketable screenplay.
1. Create a Marketable Concept in the High Concept class.
2. Plotting and Outlining an amazing story.
3. Create Characters for A-list Actors.Stage Two: Build in scenes and pages that keep readers engaged.
4. Write Fascinating Scenes.
5. Create Anticipation, Expectation, and Compelling Description. Turn your script into a page-turner.Stage Three: Elevate your writing to a Professional Level.
6. Revealing Subtext Class.
7. Advanced Dialogue.
8. Make your First Ten Pages Shine.
9. Write a Great Ending.Stage Four: Get yourself and your script ready for the market.
10. Create a Complete Marketing Campaign for your script.
The course also includes two one-on-one phone calls with Hal at various critical stages, to ensure everyone is on track.
Genre Prize Winners
The Genre Prize Winners will receive the "Marketing Your Screenplay" course.
An 11-day course (divided into two parts) that will give you an overall understanding of how to take your script through the marketing process with as little frustration and as much success as possible. By the end of this program, you'll have well written marketing materials for your screenplay and the knowledge of what to do to get your script into the hands of buyers out there.
Class includes a one-on-one consultation with Hal Croasmun about your marketing materials and pitch. (Value: $250)
Grand Prize Runner-Ups
The Grand Prize Runner-ups will receive your choice of one of ScreenwritingU 10-day classes or a $90 discount toward any of our other classes. (Value $90)
Pushing the Envelope
This class is all about one thing -- having your writing be extra- ordinary. It assumes that you already understand screenwriting and now the job is to make your writing captivating. This class includes examples from the show, "LOST".
Revealing Subtext
What is one of the main keys that identifies your writing as professional or not? -- Subtext. In this class, you'll learn to design subtext into your plots, scenes, characters, action and dialogue including the famous subtext pointers.
Advanced Dialogue
ADVANCED DIALOGUE is about taking the best dialogue you've ever written and making it so much better that people who read it just love it. In the course, we'll work with high-level dialogue techniques that give you the power to write unique dialogue that feels natural, but delivers on multiple levels, get a set of techniques for rewriting the dialogue of any script and improving it dramatically and new techniques for drawing out the best dialogue from your characters.
Fresh & Edgy
In this class, we'll demystify the process of writing both fresh and edgy scripts. This could be the class that takes your writing to a whole new level...and help you discover a side to your writing you never considered before.
Comedy Writing For Screenplays
Advertisers say "sex sells," but in the movie business, many readers, producers, actors enjoy good comedy more than sex in screenplays. No matter what genre you write, it can benefit by writing better humor. In this class, we analyze successful comedy movies and work with proven techniques to create comedy concepts, humorous characters, physical humor, and funny lines.
Writing Great Endings
Your ending is the second most important part of your script, so it needs to be great! In this class you'll learn what makes a great ending, how to structure your third act so that every page increases the emotion, and how to write final pages and parting words that will create the buzz you need to get your script sold and make your movie a box office success.
