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Lizz Bangura

Stand Out: How To Write the Perfect TV Script Sample | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop

$299.00

Did you know that you are just one script away from achieving your dream?

That’s right! Just one script away.

That’s all it could take to get that job in the coveted writers' room, receive that fellowship, or find representation. This script is likely called "a sample." Samples are different from pilots. They showcase the best of you as a writer through an engaging, authentic narrative.

In Stand Out: How To Write the Perfect TV Script Sample, you will learn unforgettable script writing tips while honing your voice as a writer so you can show up as you, uniquely, on the page. This class is open to anyone looking for the motivation to turn a budding idea or unfinished draft into a polished script, while gaining insight into how to position yourself and your work in the TV writing industry. We will move quickly, so be ready to work!

Open to intermediate writers (or writers with prior knowledge of script writing) to take their script to the next level. 

4 class sessions
Saturdays, March 28 - April 18
12p-2p ET
9a-11a PT
11a-1p CT

All class meetings will be held via Zoom. For more information on how to download or use Zoom, please click here.

    Course Takeaways

    • Learn the Difference: Know what writers are looking for when they read a sample versus a pilot and incorporate these key differences into your draft.
    • Leverage Your Work: Gain insight on how to use your sample to get a fellowship, general, writers' room job, etc.
    • Get It Done: Walk away with a completed draft (first or otherwise) of your TV writing sample!

    Course Expectations

    • Come with an original idea you are ready to put on the page.
    • Students are expected to read scripts and workshop their own between classes.
    • Students are expected to share work and give feedback to one another.
    • Students are allowed to have a preexisting draft of a script if their intention is to revise only.
    • Must have access to script writing software (Final Draft strongly recommended).

    Course Skeleton

    • Week 1: Who Are You and What is A Sample?
      Fundamental knowledge about ideation, outlines, and scriptwriting, as well as key industry insight.
    • Week 2: Honing Your Story (Dos and Don'ts When Writing A Sample)
      Revising outlines/first drafts of scripts
    • Week 3: Werk, Werk, Werkshop!
      In class in workshop of your scripts (review + class feedback)
    • Week 4: You on the Page
      More workshops and final insight into leveraging your sample/story into the industry!

    For Classes: We offer full refunds for cancellation with written notice up until 7 days before your class start date. From 6 days to more than 24 hours before class begins, we offer a 25% refund. If you drop a class less than 24 hours before the class begins or after it has started, you are ineligible for a refund.

    By signing up for a class, you agree to our refund policy and code of conduct here.

    For Editing packages: Refunds are not offered after your story or manuscript is submitted for review.

    Meet Your Instructor

    Lizz Bangura

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    Lizz Bangura (she/her) is a writer, director, actor, and stand-up from New York.

    She has worked in several writers' rooms on TV projects, such as PROBABILITY OF MIRACLES (AMAZON PRIME), SURVIVAL OF THE THICKEST (Netflix, A24), NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK (Hulu), and more.

    Through both a comedic and dramatic lens, Lizz writes multicultural, intergenerational, coming-of-age stories about deeply flawed characters seeking love and acceptance amid catastrophic circumstances.