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KARL IGLESIAS DAY!!!

Kick-Off Special Event -- Karl Iglesias Day!
Wednesday 9:00am - 4:30pm (Lunch Break Noon - 1:30pm)

Karl's focus will be "Writing for Emotional Impact": It's not about plot points. It's not about structure. It's not about character. It's about emotion!

There are three kinds of feelings when reading a script: boredom, interest, and WOW! To become a successful writer you must create that WOW! feeling on as many pages as possible, and this requires writing that engages the reader emotionally. How to generate that experience will be the focus of this intensive one-day seminar.

Based on Karl Iglesias' popular classes at UCLA Extension, this seminar will go beyond the basics and argue that Hollywood is in the emotion-delivery business, selling emotional experiences packaged in movies and TV shows.

Karl will not only encourage you to deliver emotional impact on as many pages as possible, he will show you how - offering a smorgasbord of dramatic techniques to take your writing to the professional level. Topics will include:
     * How to rework your ideas to generate maximum emotional effect
     * The Build-Reveal-Connect process for humanizing characters
     * The five key visceral emotions of all successful stories
     * The three requirements for dramatic conflict
     * How to create a page turner through scene transitions
     * Crafting fascinating scenes with the Emotional Palette
     * How to energize your narrative description
     * Techniques to make your dialogue leap off the page
     * The psychology of subtext
     * Avoiding on the nose dialogue

* IMPORTANT NOTE: This event is an elective.
 Ticket fee is $150 for non-conference attendees and only $50 for those registered for either The Screenwriting Symposium or The Hollywood Connection.