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Need your input -- What time's work best for you?
I've been gearing everything for around 10 a.m. Pacific Time. But we have people all over the world. So I'd love for you to let me know if there are times that work better for you and I'll try to make them work for coaching sessions. And if anybody is up for night sessions, lmk, I think there are probably a lot of people who work during the day, this might work for. All times below are based on my time in Los Angeles, Pacific Time. What works best for you for Seminars and Coaching Calls?
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Need your input -- What time's work best for you?
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@David Stem Hey David, I usually can but thought there was a second call scheduled for tonight so I was just gonna catch the zoom rec. of the first one since I had a scheduling conflict. I don’t see it on the calendar anymore so I may have just mistaked it
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@David Stem yeah I must’ve misread it, thanks for clarifying!
Let's talk favorite movies and why. I want to make a list for coaching purposes.
I just got off a call that was supposed to be coaching me on how to make great YouTube content, but the call was way too vague and sales-y for my taste. And reminded me of what I DON'T want to be doing here. This call was basically "Make great content" and you eventually, somehow the algorithm will reward you! But no examples of great content were provided and I found the whole thing fairly useless. Then when the presenter told us we'd need 10 MILLION watch hours on YouTube shorts to be able to monetize, it was apparent they had no real idea what they were talking about. The whole thing made me feel this: If you're going to preach how to do something, SHOW ME SPECIFICALLY how you did it yourself. And SHOW ME SPECIFIC examples of how other people did it. Period. I have plenty of movies I wrote that I'm happy to give examples from in future sessions. How characters were set up, why the audience tied into them emotionally, and the thought process I and my partner used to do that. I want to have kind of a MUST KNOW library of movies to teach from here. I refer to Signs and Toy Story 2 often, because they are masterfully crafted, but I want us to have a community list of movies we are pretty much all familiar with ... and then I will search out the ones I can find scripts for, so we can see SPECIFICALLY what the writers did in creating the characters and scenes we love. This will be part of the classroom/community/coaching philosophy going forward. If you want to be involved and grow as a writer, you'll abolutely need to show up and do the work required - including knowing specific movies and reading the scripts! If you want to be a writer, this should be FUN homework and will really allow us to grow as a community going forward since we'll have a common film language. With that in mind, what are 5 movies you absolutely love and why. I'll create a master list of films and scripts and coaching sessions built around these! So, let's hear it!
Let's talk favorite movies and why. I want to make a list for coaching purposes.
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mmm what’s your yt channel? @David Stem I used to work on the strategy side for creators and can probably help you out (well, at least more than that call did 💀)
New Members... drop the first 7 pages of your script here if you want to get coached up Monday Morning at 10 a.m. PST
We're changing this New Member call up. (Here's the link for the Zoom.)Instead of just getting to know each other, I want to put a couple of you in the Hot Seat and go through the first few pages of your script. Why? Because NOTHING kills a read faster than your first scenes not jumping off the page! It's the #1 Rule in my 10 Iron Clad Rules for a Writing Life. Make me love you by page 2, or gtfo. The truth is, agents/managers/producers will stop reading immediately if you don't nail the opening. And my way of teaching is... I don't believe in simply telling you what to do, since we all have blind spots. The best form of coaching is when I take YOUR work and put you on the Hot Seat and you get real time feedback on how your material plays live. @Godfrey Virgile has already waded into deep end with his script. I need a few more and will be choosing 2 or 3 to work with. Now, who's in? Drop your first 7 pages below. And I'll see you Monday morning. Oh, and make sure to read everyone's work between now and then so you (and they) get the most out of Hot Seat coaching.
New Members... drop the first 7 pages of your script here if you want to get coached up Monday Morning at 10 a.m. PST
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i know this structure is problematic so i apologize before hand. (bright side: there’s only 3 written pages left to read after this) They say this next generation coming up [can’t read] like their wildin… but my generation [can’t write]. my parents generation [won’t write] and my grandma well she never got the chance to be good at either [married straight out of primary school, young young] so aye man, we out here trying…. publicly 💀 and publicly trying is tough as hell [as an adult, at least] . at least writing is dope but I found out late because school was quite literally beating the creativity out of me juuusttt like they did steve. who’s steve? yk apple, pixar, steve, steve. … which steve? ahh yeah it’s just steve now. ask the writers you’ll see, all the [jobs] are gone. yeah all the creative types just kinda go by steve now (like the women all being named julia’s back in the the time of julius ceasar) hella lore, i know. so, the present year is 1984. PEAK for “dystopian” super bowl ads, there’s one with Keanu Reeves this year. dystopian big brother ahhh type ad then Keanu Reeves busts in and has the opportunity of his career to pass down his life changing matrix moment. practices his lines over and over in the mirror to get them down. and lin … man, well Lin takes both pills before Keanu could even finish his lines, and boop pops em. complete dismay. You see… we’re presently living… and the present year is 1984… … … so Lin juuuusstt turned 4. and well Keanus matrix moment was like giving candy to a baby … so you can see how this 3 day past 3 year old Lin Manuel has just completely misinterpreted the biggest matrix moment of all of our lives right … … … but this baby this newly 4 y/o baby genius is actually still our best chance at making sure 1984 stays in 1984. … … … so … can this confused (and now crossed) creative baby genius help us figure out who lives, who dies, and who saves steve’s story? queue part i: [pre-ptsd]
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