Writers submit a 2-4 page scene in PDF format which can include up to half a page of set up if necessary and email it to this address.

Sign up now and take until Monday, April 18, to get your scene in.  By sending your scene, you are giving me permission to send the scenes and notes to others in the class. I will provide feedback by embedding notes into the PDF.  

I will send links to YouTube scenes that writers can watch at their convenience. I will let you know how each video is relevant to a craft principle and will even reference the videos in the individual scene notes.

Every writer will have their scene or a craft principle referenced in a clip. I will often mention more than one writers' scenes in the intro to the YouTube scenes.

I will try to pick a time for the group wrap-up to be convenient for the majority of the writers and will take a vote on the best service to use.  Am leaning toward Gotomeeting.com.

The random/interactive part of the class is that I won't pre-pick scenes or lessons till I read the scenes.  I will tailor the notes and clips to be specifically relevant to the current group.

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Jim Mercurio is a filmmaker and writer.  He is finishing up his second feature as a director.

As a story analyst, his clients include, A-List filmmakers who make tens of millions of dollars per film, international rock stars, aspiring amateurs and high school students. His clients have sold scripts to or made movies with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Robert Rodriguez and Morgan Freeman. He is ranked as one of the top screenplay consultants in the country and recently signed with Linden Publishing for the first-ever scene writing book for screenwriters: The Craft of Scene Writing: 14 Steps to a Better Screenplay. 

He runs monthly specials on his consulting at his blog and he hosts 100 hours of classes near the end of the year in Los Angeles for the top 20 feature writers of the Champion Screenwriting Competition.

SHORT DISCLAIMER 

Any and all ideas I have that are specific to the scene are 100% yours to keep but I will retain the rights to general lecture and scene writing advice. For instance, I may use  an excerpt from my book to explain something but I retain the rights to that material.