Feature Film Packaging Workshop

(2 Credits)

This course is a hands-on workshop. Filmmakers will practice pitching their films — and will work through tasks that will help them assemble a detailed pitch and package — including script, budget and creative materials — for projects they intend to take into the marketplace. Through this process, students will develop a deeper understanding of their story, clarify their creative vision regarding tone and style, begin to assemble materials for a director’s look book, better understand audience and marketing realities and opportunities — and articulate the financial and legal obligations they’ll be assuming in production. Perhaps most critically — as stated at the top of this paragraph — students will practice pitching their project in class: to develop and refine the route to best telling the story of their film.