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29 Distinctions of Writers Boot Camp
- Our alumni work at the highest levels of the industry.
- Writers Boot Camp employs full-time staff to support you during your coursework, and afterwards as an alumnus and working writer.
- Though your commitment does not require quitting your day job or investing in school full-time, you need ten hours for writing outside of class, and we recommend that for at least 40 weeks out of the 52-week calendar year to scale the true learning curve and sustain a professional pace.
- Professional Membership in LA and NY includes 48 sessions over 22 months, four script evaluations and conferences, monthly events and web-accessible streaming, weekly instructor office hours and online support.
- You have the option of writing three feature scripts or five television series spec scripts, or a variety of either.
- The script deadlines, every twelfth session, hold you accountable to your goals.
- A 60-day hiatus, if necessary and with advance approval, is built into your coursework for creative breaks (and unforeseen breakups and breakdowns) that may occur.
- Your script is eligible for cast readings during your initial coursework.
- You have access to our web site writer dashboard for ease of communication, including submission templates for interaction with your fellow writers and alumni in the national Writers Boot Camp community.
- Instead of rules or formula, the program gives you tools to coherently develop your material and organize your own vision without anyone imposing on your story.
- There’s no bias toward certain material but rather toward conceptual inventiveness and the full development of the potential of your ideas.
- The Twelve Checkpoints, learned through the first twelve weeks of Think Tank, take you through the many orbits required to fully test and develop a professional-level script.
- After this first stage, your Project Group sessions reiterate the set of Checkpoints three more times to provide accountability and to make the tools a natural part of your writing process.
- The Checkpoints reinforce an empowered rewriting process that both divides the rewriting process into more manageable stages and tasks and focuses you on refining your concept.
- Upon entering the Project Group phase, the Checkpoints become flexible tools to apply at various stages of writing and rewriting.
- The specific Checkpoints, like the renowned one-page story map called the 3-6-3, actually build your script and are layered versions of your developing project, not just exercises done in a vacuum.
- All story instruction at Writers Boot Camp is inherently character-driven until you make a conscious and entertaining choice otherwise.
- You learn Four-Segment structure as it applies to all script forms, including television, and you learn to cross over and make distinctions fluidly from one form to the other.
- Our creative relationship with you is treated individually, as is your progress, so we don’t expect everyone to be at the same place at the same time.
- By simply reaching out if you choose to, you will find countless chances to get direct feedback from your instructor, members of the staff and from your fellow writers.
- The common language of Checkpoints makes your interaction in class with your peers highly productive, without the burden of required participation outside of class.
- Script evaluation is taught from a top-down approach so that scene work and page notes are given only at the appropriate rewriting stage and after conceptual, structural and character development issues are addressed.
- Since each of your scripts is written at its own pace, the continuing Project Group environment is not as much a group of equals as an opportunity to learn more quickly by analogy from the group.
- The teaching method and environment make you a better authority of your own work by reinforcing the nature of the tools and the nuances of the writing process.
- Instead of giving in to your desire for approval, the class environment focuses you on giving your peers feedback and applying the insight you gain toward making your own script more compelling.
- Industry speaker events are intended to put you in touch with how the business truly works and to turn you back inward to the one thing you can control as a writer, the work you do.
- Recapping of in-class discussion of your material, conference notes and industry meetings is required for the creation of a log of your progress and to instill habits that may protect you professionally.
- In the service of affording writers opportunity, Writers Boot Camp offers many payment-plan options, though the program requires your full commitment to your financial obligation once you are accepted.
- You earn automatic Think Tank alumni benefits if you remain in good standing as of completion of your coursework.
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