Selling Your Screenplay Select Gold

Note: The class is currently filled. We will be running another rotation of classes in a few months. Join our email list to learn when the new classes will begin.

Selling Your Screenplay Select Gold is a twelve month intensive screenwriting workshop intended to help writers become professional screenwriters. The goal of SYS Select Gold is clear: to help screenwriters option, sell, and obtain writing assignments from producers and production companies.

By joining SYS Select Gold you will get access to all the live and recorded online classes, detailed development notes from me, Ashley Scott Meyers, as well as numerous email and fax blasts to help promote your screenplay. I will guide you through the entire screenwriting process from choosing a marketable concept to writing it into a professional screenplay to successfully bringing it to market and finding a producer for it.

Specifically here is what you get by joining Selling Your Screenplay Select Gold:

• 1 year membership to Selling Your Screenplay Select ($ value)
• Membership includes access to all past and future online classes.
• Membership includes access to our members only screenwriting forum.
• Membership includes notes on all your log lines and query letters.
• 1 agents and managers email / fax blast ($ value)
• 3 producers blast ($ x 3 = $477 value) – In the event you option or sell your screenplay before the second or third blasts you can use them to promote another screenplay of your choice.
• Notes on your screenplay by Ashley Scott Meyers ($400 value)
• Notes on your revised screenplay by Ashley Scott Meyers ($200 value)

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Pay Monthly	Pay Yearly
Total value: $1386 Savings: $198 (14%) Cost: $ / month for 12 months	Total value: $1386 Savings: $387 (28% savings) Cost: $

Curriculum

Dates: September 2014 – September 2015
Instructor: Ashley Scott Meyers

• September 2014
  • Begin coming up with lots of potential story ideas for a marketable screenplay.
  • Online Class (September 27th): Choosing a marketable concept (How to avoid the single biggest mistake made by new screenwriters)
• October 2014
  • Formulate at least two dozen original screenplay concepts that you would like to write into a full screenplay.
  • Work with the instructor to figure out which concepts are the most marketable.
    • By the end of October you must decide which concept you are going to write into a full screenplay during this workshop.
  • Online class: Before You Begin To Write Your Screenplay (Outlining your screenplay)
• November 2014
  • Create a solid outline for your screenplay.
    • Outlines are due by the end of the month.
  • Online class: How To Make The Opening Pages Of Your Screenplay Awesome
• December 2014
  • Revise your outline based on instructor’s notes.
  • Write the opening pages of your screenplay.
    • Opening pages are due by the end of the month.
  • Online Class: How To Write A Killer First Act For Your Screenplay
• January 2015
  • Revise your opening pages based on instructor’s notes.
  • Write the first act of your screenplay.
    • First act due at the end of the month.
  • Online Class: Writing A Great Second Act For Your Screenplay
• February 2015
  • Revise the first act based on instructor’s notes.
  • Write the second act of your screenplay.
  • No scheduled class.
• March 2015
  • Continue writing the second act of your screenplay.
    • Second act due at the end of the of month.
  • Online Class: Writing a Great Ending To Your Screenplay
• April 2015
  • Revise second act based on instructor’s notes.
  • Write the third act of your screenplay.
  • First draft of screenplay due at the end of May.
• May 2015
  • Instructor will provide notes by mid-month.
  • Revise screenplay based on instructor’s notes.
• June 2015
  • Continue to revise screenplay.
    • Full, first draft of screenplay is due by June 15th so we can begin to market the screenplay.
  • Agent email / fax blast
  • Producer email / fax blast
• July 2015
  • Market the screenplay.
  • 2nd Producer email / fax blast
• August 2015
  • Continue to market the screenplay.
  • 3rd Producer email / fax blast

Who is an ideal candidate for Selling Your Screenplay Select Gold?

Someone who has written several screenplays.

This course is not for beginners. If you’ve never written a full feature length screenplay before, you should sit down and write a few scripts before you enroll in this program.

Absolute beginners will not get enough value out of this program to justify the expense. So please do NOT sign up if you haven’t written at least a screenplay or two already.

Someone who has at least 5-7 hours per week to devout to their writing.

No amount of coaching and mentoring can substitute for hard work. If you can’t commit at least five to seven hours per week to screenwriting, this program is probably not a good fit for you.

People who are ready to write a new script.

I know there will be people who want to polish their current script, and I’m open to that. However, I think the people who will get the most value out of this program will be people who are ready to work on something new so that I can guide them through the process of formulating a solid marketable concept. Too often screenwriters choose concepts that simply don’t have any real potential in the market place. No amount of notes and coaching can overcome this.

So… if you have a script you want to work on in this workshop, you can, however you’re encouraged to use the concept portion of the workshop to come up with new story ideas that might work better as a professional marketable screenplay.

People who need help with accountability.

One of the biggest things that schools and colleges provide is simple accountability. By enrolling in this workshop you will be expected to keep up with the curriculum. And the instructor will be checking in with you regularly to make sure that you do! Deadlines will be set and you will be gently prodded to keep up with them. So if you need additional accountability to keep your writing and being productive, this might be a great way to get that.

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Pay Monthly	Pay Yearly
Total value: $1386 Savings: $198 (14%) Cost: $ / month for 12 months	Total value: $1386 Savings: $387 (28% savings) Cost: $