Speaker Change for March 25th!

CHANGE OF PLANS!

The manager scheduled will not be appearing this Sunday due to circumstances beyond our control. We hope to reschedule him to speak next month.

If you've already RSVPed but won't be coming tomorrow please send me a note to let me know. The substitute main speaker will be me, Robin Rowe. As previously announced, I'm leading the workshop too.

Sunday, March 25th, 2007, 3pm to 6pm
Mingle starting at 2:30
Free with RSVP!
Go to www.ScreenplayLab.com to sign up

Robin Rowe speaking at ScreenplayLab March 25th...

4:15pm-5:30pm: Screenwriter Robin Rowe [IMDB] will reveal how he's done what sounds impossible, get a major studio to ask for a treatment from him as an unknown writer, sign with an agent before he'd finished writing his first feature screenplay, and then get that script read at major production companies by cold-calling execs (and with vital but limited assistance from his agent). How to nurture and motivate your agent. How to write screenplays that agents, studios and networks want to read.

Robin Rowe writes as a journalist for the Motion Picture Editors Guild Magazine and for High Definition magazine in the UK. He's an executive producer at the fledgling Comic Strip Network. He was a studio technologist at DreamWorks Animation and a technical director of news at a mid-market NBC-TV station.

Pitch and Story Clinic - Workshop with Robin Rowe

3pm-4pm: Bring in your pitch or story idea to practice pitching in front of a live audience. Robin will find something to like and give suggestions for improvement. Robin's approach of Teaser, Genre, Archetypes not Stereotypes, Hero, Inciting Incident, and Quest can help you develop your story ideas into cinematic pitches faster and better. Due to time constraints, not everyone will get to pitch. There will be writers, actors and filmmakers in the audience. If you volunteer to pitch it's your responsibility to have whatever safeguards you need (e.g., copyright or WGA registration) to feel comfortable discussing your ideas in public.

Raleigh Studios
Enter at Van Ness Gate
5300 Melrose Avenue (across from Paramount)
Hollywood, California
Free parking available on the street
Parking on the lot, if available, costs $5