The word manipulation often spells trouble. But in screenwriting, if you think about it, manipulation is actually a positive. Anyone who watches anything wants to feel something, and wants their emotional state to be impacted by the movie or TV series they watch. Which means the audience is asking the writer to manipulate their emotional experience. So how do you embrace this power and fully understand your role as a writer?

This live webinar will provide answers. Youll learn to get comfortable with the concept of manipulating your audience, and understand more fully why it is so important. This webinar will teach you how to construct scenes that maximize the emotional impact for your audience. How to create characters that resonate, and how to build an emotional layer into your story.

Your instructor, Tim Schildberger has been writing for decades. Hes the author of The Audience and You: A guide to writing screenplays with emotional impact which has topped the Amazon screenwriting book charts. His insights into finding the connection between writer and audience have helped everyone from working writers, to those just starting out.

Understanding your role as someone given the responsibility to impact another persons emotional state is powerful, and an important step in your screenwriting journey. This live webinar will help you accept that power, and learn that sometimes, manipulation can be a good thing.

Born and raised in Australia,Tim Schildbergerwas the youngest writer on the global TV series Neighbours, and moved to Los Angeles in 1997. Hes a writer, producer, journalist, script coach, and Girl-Dad. He was a supervisor on the wildly successful feature Borat, and created and wrote the US TV series Lawrence of America. Tim is a frequent contributor to Script Magazine, and he founded the popular screenwriting competition Write LA. He is based in Los Angeles.