The Leaning Into Genius Group Course

THE LEANING INTO GENIUS FOUR-MONTH COURSE CURRICULUM:  MONTH ONE:  - Identifying YOUR specific route to your project's perfect team.  - Developing your film's short and long synopsis, logline, and director statement in preparation for creating pitch materials.  *Learning about Critical Mass: the point at which your project meets the minimum required amounts to be and stay in motion.  *Learning the 11th Dynamic Tool - Bringing Lightness: The quality of being easily borne. How do we make our screenplay easy to bear for careless readers?  - Gathering Low Impact Feedback to identify that Genius Thing in your screenplay and lean into it on every page, in every moment, AND in every action you take toward getting the script to the screen.  - Utilizing your Genius Thing to write your pitch.  MONTH TWO:  - Packaging your film with deck building, and film financing program submission writing. - Developing your Genius Thing Draft with your pitch materials, using both to make collaborator reachouts, make development lab and competition submissions, book meetings, and even preliminary casting.  *Learning the 12th Dynamic Tool - Potent Percentages: Our screenplays comprise a series of parts that make up a whole of 100%, and that whole must be effective.  *Learning the 13th Dynamic Tool - The Fluidity of Archetypes: Ironically, it's the fluidity of character archetypes that proves the rule of any one archetype specifically.  *Learning the 14th Dynamic Tool - Subliminality: a blueprint for what our film and pitch materials tell readers below their perceptions. MONTH THREE:  - Taking action toward film financing via my Story as Language approach to budgeting, straightforward financier conversations: Budgetary Cognizance.  *Learning the 15th Dynamic Tool - The Purposing of Success: How and on what are you objectively focusing your moments of success? - Transforming the expression of your screenplay based on the High Impact Feedback received during reachouts.  *Learning the 16th Dynamic Tool - Expansion: The World Within Scenes, Acts, and even Moments *Learning the 17th Dynamic Tool - True Color Revelations: Revealing Real Character & Intentions; Disruption & Disgrace MONTH FOUR:  - Bringing all the work together - a Genius Thing Draft, polished pitch materials, a team of collaborators, and financier possibilities.  - Pitching your film and getting live feedback.  - Holding your Zoom or Staged Reading using my Story as Language staged reading techniques.  *Learning the 18th Dynamic Tool - Related Events: The way we naturally build and continue a story.  - Take inventory & clarify your remaining path forward with the Dynamics work, materials work, and attachments.