Branding—what is it, exactly? Branding is more than crafting a logo. It's the unique way a creative presents themselves to the industry and, ultimately, sells their craft. Getting a handle on finding your own distinct definition as a creator comes with a lot of questions: Are branding and marketing the same? How are they different? […]
In Symposium's One-on-One Town Hall series, Pipeline executives sit down for in-depth and personal conversations with our friends in publishing, screenwriting, and filmmaking. For our next session, Jeanne Veillette Bowerman speaks with New York Times best-selling author L. M. Elliott to unpack the layered process involved in creating accurate and riveting historical fiction. This candid discussion dives into […]
Networking When You Don't Know Anybody from Pipeline Artists - Symposium on Vimeo. Forget getting past Hollywood’s gatekeepers ... how do you even reach them in the first place? In the entertainment world, all you hear is "Network! Network! Network!" and the path ahead tends to be filled with closed doors, cold contacts, and more […]
Idea Machine: Finding New Stories to Write from Pipeline Artists - Symposium on Vimeo. Hello ... It's me again—your blank-white screen staring back at you on page one, title "TBD." An empty space. Perfectly reflecting the amount of great ideas echoing inside your head right now. So, how do we change that? Maybe start here: […]
Building a Kick-Ass Pitch Deck & Series Bible from Pipeline Artists - Symposium on Vimeo. How to create a stunning deck to help sell your feature or TV series So you wrote an incredible script and you’re really proud of it. Now what? You share it with friends and family, enter some screenwriting competitions, get […]
A Symposium Town Hall bringing us back to a fundamental of storytelling: hook the reader. Our Pipeline staff dig into the significance of those often-troubling first 5 pages—really the first impression of a script as a whole—and how to stand out to industry reviewing your material. Moderated by Pipeline Artists Editor-in-Chief Jeanne Veillette Bowerman and Creative Executive Ruth Sabin, […]
Pipeline Artists introduces a new One-on-One Town Hall series where Pipeline executives sit down for in-depth and personal conversations with our friends in publishing, screenwriting, and filmmaking. For our inaugural session, Jeanne Veillette Bowerman dives into a candid discussion with multi-award-winning producer/director Lane Shefter Bishop, who CNN dubbed "The Book Whisperer." Lane wrote Sell Your […]
Our opening topic will focus on one of the oldest debates still hotly discussed in screenwriting - is it all about Structure or the Voice of the writer?
