Business Success in the Screen Industries

edX MOOC / Non-credit USD 299

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Business Success in the Screen Industries

About this course

Learn how to network in the creative industries, how pitch your film to a producer, and how to hold your own in a TV writers’ room. Acquire the basic skills for setting up your own production company and learn how to transform creative ideas into work of commercial value.
This course will broaden your understanding of how to maintain a career successfully as a professional screenwriter, as well as offer you insights in how to maximise and enjoy the processes of your personal creativity.

What you'll learn

How to pitch film projects to producers
How to network effectively in the creative industries
How to contribute professionally in a TV writers' room
Basic skills for setting up a production company
How to transform creative ideas into commercially viable work

Course objectives

Broaden understanding of maintaining a successful screenwriting career
Develop practical business skills for the screen industries
Learn to maximize and enjoy personal creativity processes

Skills you'll gain

networking pitching screenwriting film production television writing creative industries writers' room production company entertainment business creative entrepreneurship film industry tv industry producer relations commercial viability creative careers

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