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KARL IGLESIAS teaches at UCLA Extension’s Writer’s Program and Writers University. He is the best-selling author of The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, and Writing for Emotional Impact. He also writes the regular column on the craft for Creative Screenwriting magazine. As a script consultant passionate about great storytelling, he specializes in the reader’s emotional response to the written page. He is a STAR Speaker of the Screenwriting Expo.

ROB TOBIN is a former development exec and VP of the country’s largest screenwriting school, script consultant, writing coach, and award-winning who read more than 5,000 screenplays before writing How to Write High-Structure, High-Concept Screenplays. He now shares that experience at film festivals and writing conferences around the country and applies those principles to his own award-winning screenplays and to the work of his clients, helping them write structurally foolproof, fast-moving scripts. He was a STAR Speaker of Screenwriting Expo 2 and Screenwriting Expo 3.

MICHAEL RAY BROWN is a veteran story analyst with more than 25 years’ experience at 7 major studios and one of Hollywood’s top script doctors. His contributions have led to a “green light” for such films as Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, Red Corner, Contact, and Hart’s War. Now a freelance writer, story editor, and consultant, Michael has more than 35 hours of produced screenplay credits.

DAVID J. FREEDMAN designed the original software for Moviefone. After retiring from Moviefone, David started writing feature scripts but soon realized that he was much better at shopping his scripts than getting people to actually like them, so David started his own agency dedicated to screenwriters and the art of great writing for features and television. His Motto: "I would rather make ten percent on someone else than zero percent on me." Words to live by. He was a STAR Speaker of Screenwriting Expo 3.

RICHARD WALTER has been professor and chairman of UCLA’s screenwriting program for 25 years. His students have written Tears of the Sun, Jurassic Park I, II, III, A View from the Top, Spider-Man, Real Women Have Curves, About Schmidt, Road to Perdition, Kangaroo Jack, The Sum of All Fears, Men in Black, Face/Off, Charlie’s Angels, Mission Impossible, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Terminal, and many more. He was a STAR Speaker of Screenwriting Expo 2.

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Screenwriting for Beginners

(5 DVD Set)

“Really solid (and a bit sobering)… Gave me a very realistic view of the business… Wonderfully revealing! Insightful to profound, encouraging while remaining realistic.”

–Attendees of Karl Iglesias’s Essential Habits seminar at Screenwriting Expo 3.

“Rob Tobin is blessed with unique skills both literary and cinematic. His creative instincts are first-rate.”

—Paul Levine, best-selling novelist

“Michael Ray Brown gives you the most direct path to writing a marketable screenplay. His 18-step plan takes you from the beginning to the end of your writing experience.”

–Angela M. Cranon, publisher of Hollywood Scriptwriter magazine

"David Freedman is the ONLY one teaching this stuff! Everyone else is focused on the story and the script. David talks about everything else you need to make it as a screenwriter in the Biz. I have gotten so many more requests for my scripts after following the course's guidelines for writing a great logline!"

—Rob Samborn

“I recommend Richard Walter’s seminar as a great tool for anyone interested in becoming a professional screenwriter.”

—Jeff Robinov, Senior Vice President, Warner Bros.

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Screenwriting for Beginners is a 5-DVD set designed to present all the information you need to become a professional screenwriter. Master the discipline of a pro, create a winning logline, structure your writing for success, and build your career.

DVD 1: Karl Iglesias’s Mastering the Essential Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters (Trailer)

Most screenwriting books and seminars attempt to teach the screenwriter what to do, this DVD outlines how to do it. Author Karl Iglesias discusses the essential habits of highly-successful, A-list screenwriters, such as Ron Bass, Akiva Goldsman, Eric Roth, and more. This DVD includes an insider’s perspective on how the pros:

Discipline themselves.
Create original material.
Evoke emotion on the page.
Conquer writer's block.
Persevere in Hollywood.

DVD 2: Robert Tobin’s The Seven Essential Elements of a Successful Screenplay (Trailer)

This user-friendly, cutting edge workshop teaches the seven essential elements of successful screenplays: the hero, hero’s flaw, hero’s ally, opponent, lifechanging event, enabling circumstances and jeopardy.

Rob uses his highly informative and entertaining style to explore and explain terms and concepts not discussed in even the most celebrated screenwriting workshops.

It is essential to not just use these essential elements in your screenplays, but to create the correct relationship between them. Just as walls, floors and ceilings must be in correct relationship to each other to form a house, these essential elements must be in correct relationship to each other to create an exciting, structurally sound, and commercially viable story.

“The difference between a waiter and a writer is a single letter and a million words,” Rob often says. “But simply writing a million words will do you no good unless you know how to structure your story, how to identify the building blocks and how to use them. Otherwise you might as well be writing a telephone book.”

Having read more than 5,000 screenplays, Rob’s encountered more than his share of “telephone books” and is anxious to help you make your screenplay the best it can be.

DVD 3: Michael Ray Brown’s A Structure Checklist: How to Plug the Holes in Your Script (Trailer)

Screenwriting has been described as a craft, not an art. Structure is arguably the most important factor in a script’s success. Learn how to quickly analyze your screenplay in 18 crucial areas. Discover what it takes to make your script fire on all cylinders.

This DVD will arm you with all the tools you need to write an effective screenplay that is salable.
An entire screenwriting course on one disk, this DVD is a must-have guide for both novices and professionals.

DVD 4: David Freedman’s Screenwriter’s Guide to Making Money

The seminar that transforms the screenwriter from a rookie to a professional: Understanding The Industry: Terms, Agent vs. Manager, What's Hot/Not; Packaging Yourself and Your Script: Logline and Synopsis; Selling the Package: Query Letter and Pitch; and Getting A Literary Agent.

Got the next "Home Alone"? How About the next "Galaxy Quest"? Maybe the next "Schindler's List"? Perhaps a combo of all three (wouldn't that be interesting)? Get your unique voice heard by presenting yourself and your script in a way that buyers will fight each other to pay you for it.

DVD 5: Richard Walter’s Screenwriting: The Whole Picture (Trailer)

A fool-proof, shock-proof, water-tight, guarenteed formula for success! In 90 minutes Prof. Walter presents the entire UCLA Master of Arts in Screenwriting formula encompassing story, character, dialog, and description. Just add discipline, talent, and most importantly, patience, for enduring success.


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