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Bridging the Gap to the Market - Marketing Your Script

"How to create winning development and marketing strategies for your project"

"Quite simply if you are serious about a career as a screenwriter, you need to do the Initialize Films course "Bridging the Gap to the Market". It provides you with a CAREER STRATEGY, the most essential tool you need to achieve success".
Adrian Mead, writer-director of feature film Night People, BAFTA audience award winner and nominee for Best Screenplay, and writer on several TV series i.e. Waking the Dead.

"Initialize's Bridging the Gap - Marketing Your Script course provided concentrated information about the industry together with incisive one-to-one analysis of our project and how best to market it. Ian Davies combines thorough knowledge of the current film scene and its realities in a very pleasant informal manner."
Dan & Nuria Wicksman, screenwriters with credits on TV series broadcast in 68 countries

Who is it for?

The course is for 6 screenwriters who have a completed draft of a feature script and who want guidance on how to present their script to the market.

What is the aim of the course?

The aim is to provide high level tuition and support so that the participants (a) gain a comprehensive understanding of how to tailor and market their project for the international market, (b) find development strategies to make their projects more distinctive, (c) receive market analysis and a personalised strategy for their project in relation to Cannes (or other markets), and (d) develop presentation skills for meetings and pitch sessions.

How does it work?

The course comprises of 11 workshops over 2 days to find an effective development strategy for your project. The workshops include:

  • Analysis of common script weaknesses
  • Finding your script identity and USPs
  • Strengthening your concept / script
  • Understanding the market - tailored analysis for each project
  • One pagers and pitching
  • Agents
  • Competitions, online forums, new writing schemes, development funds
  • Alternative development strategies
  • Film festivals and markets
  • Pitch
  • Feedback and Q & A
The course is limited to 6 participants.

When and where?

Click here for dates of the next course.

The next course will be held at 15 Southampton Place, Holborn, London, WC1A 2AJ. Click here for a map.

Price

Please contact us at enquiries@initialize-films.co.uk or on 0207 404 7020 for prices of this programme.

Registration

Please send a mail to info@initialize-films.co.uk with your contact details or complete a registration form and send to:

15 Southampton Place
London
WC1A 2AJ

 

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