Are you interested in working in the industry and need to know how to write coverage? Or have you written a script and wonder how a distributor or production company reader might evaluate your material? Join AIVF's two-night seminar on May 17 and 31 from 6-10 p.m. in New York City and learn the elements of story analysis and how to write standard industry coverage from professional story analyst Maureen Nolan. For more information, please visit the AIVF website.
In the first session learn the elements of story analysis including main plot, sub-plot, structure, style, character and dialogue, and how to use these elements in writing coverage. You are required to write coverage on a script before the second workshop.
The next session will be a working session that will discuss the sample coverage completed and the strengths and weaknesses of the completed written coverage. Each participant is required to bring a sample script to be used as the basis for a coverage sample. Original scripts are preferred but any sample script will work for the class.
Two-Night Seminar Cost: $90 AIVF/$110 General
Additional Private Tutorial (Open to Workshop Participants Only): Maureen Nolan will do private tutorial to help coverage writers sharpen their skills. For the tutorial, participant will write coverage of a screenplay draft. Maureen will read the script, evaluate the participants coverage and give the participant additional feedback on their analysis skills.
Private Tutorial Cost: $75 AIVF/$100 General
INSTRUCTOR: Maureen Nolan is a script/story/creative consultant for screenwriters and filmmakers wishing to develop professional script and film projects. Nolan worked for eight years as a story analyst for Miramax Films. During this time, she read, evaluated, and gave critical responses to thousands of script and book properties. She has served as analyst for some of the company's most notable projects, including "Chicago," "The Ciderhouse Rules," "The Human Stain" and "Cold Mountain." She was educated at Barnard and Columbia before earning an MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU¹s Tisch School of the Arts.
AIVF is located at 304 Hudson St. between Spring and Vandam Streets in TriBeCa, downtown Manhattan.
