(5day Master class - Facilitated by Michael Gozzard)

<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">DAY 1</span>: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Feature Film Screenplay</strong>
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	<li>Students will first watch my Lionsgate Studios’ movie PRIDE, staring Oscar nominee Terrance Howard (IRON MAN) and Bernie Mac (OCEANS ELEVEN), so we all can discuss the film from idea to script to production to red carpet.</li>
	<li>For a producer, being able to find and help develop a movie script / screenplay is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">most</span> important ability to have.</li>
	<li>Students will then be taken through an all-day intensive workshop learning every aspect of writing feature film scripts for Western markets.</li>
	<li>Students will learn how an idea becomes a finished movie on the screen, as well as every element found in a script. You will never look at a Hollywood movie the same way again!</li>
	<li>COMING TO AMERICA, staring Eddie Murphy, will also be used during this day so students should have seen this film before the workshop, if possible.</li>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">DAY 2</span>: The Business of Hollywood “Show Business”</strong>
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	<li>Students will learn every aspect of the Hollywood Entertainment Business.</li>
	<li>Using the sport of football (or soccer as we call it in the US), students will learn how to build a “team” in order how to make a movie – which is a producer’s job.</li>
	<li>Moving from the football pitch, students will then be taught how to “pitch” their ideas, scripts, finished films, etc. This is another vital skill every successful producer must have.</li>
	<li>I will work one-on-one with every student to workshop their “pitches”, then practice their pitches in front of the group; students must help and provide feedback.</li>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">DAY 3</span>: A Producer is a Politician – You Must Know Your Constituents </strong>
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	<li>As a producer, in order to lead a team of very different and diverse people you must first know and understand their jobs, point of views (POVs), and difficulties.</li>
	<li>Students will spend a day being a screenwriter, an actor, and a director; rotating between stations to experience what it is like to write a movie, act as different characters, and direct these actors based on the script you’ve helped write in front of the camera.</li>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">DAY 4</span>: Lights, Camera, and Action!</strong>
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	<li>At the start of the day, all students will “pitch” one idea for a 1-3 minute short film; everyone will then vote on the best ideas to produce.</li>
	<li>Students will then break up into teams and create their own short films (1-3 minutes).</li>
	<li>Students will take turns as the writers, actors, directors, producers, and crew, then film their short films on HD cameras.</li>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">DAY 5</span>: Student Screenings</strong>
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	<li>If students have not finished their short films yet, they can use the morning sessions to do so. I will spend one-on-one discussion time with those students who have finished.</li>
	<li>We will then use the rest of the day for discussion as to what they learned from making their own short film, what they learned about other peoples’ jobs, and what they would do different next time as producers.</li>
	<li>Then an in-depth question &amp; answer session until the end of the day where…</li>
	<li>We will then screen the students’ short films like a film festival!</li>
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