Course curriculum

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    Resources and Content

    • Web promotion content

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    1. How to Pitch Your Project?

    • Lesson 1-1: How to Pitch Your Movie and Yourself? ( 6:23 )

    • Lesson 1-2: How to Choose Your Visuals and Logos? ( 5:21 )

    • Lesson 1-3: How to Design a Sizzle Trailer? ( 5:06 )

    • Lesson 1-4: How to Make a Teaser Trailer? ( 5:28 )

    • Lesson 1-5: How to Make a Pitch Video? ( 5:41 )
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    2. How to Promote Your Project?

    • Lesson 2-1: How to Grow Your Network, Website, & Traffic? ( 4:05 )

    • Lesson 2-2: How to Write a Press Release? ( 3:47 )

    • Lesson 2-3: How to Create a Business Plan for the Film? ( 5:32 )

    • Lesson 2-4: How to Take Advantage of Contests? ( 6:05 )

    • Lesson 2-5: How to Use Social Media for Exposure? ( 5:29 )
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    3. How to Stand Out from the Crowd?

    • Lesson 3-1: How to Create New Content ( 3:34 )

    • Lesson 3-2: How to Come Up with Unique Ideas ( 5:12 )

    • Lesson 3-3: How to Go Viral ( 3:45 )

    • Lesson 3-4: How to Use FilmBreak ( 6:27 )

    • Lesson 3-5: Course Review ( 3:16 )
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    4. [Bonus] Taking Your Movie to the Next Level

    • Lesson 4-1: Leveraging Your Film Into Other Opportunities ( 3:34 )

    • Lesson 4-2: Expanding the Universe ( 4:52 )

    • Lesson 4-3: Think to the Future ( 3:52 )

    • Lesson 4-4: In It for the Long Haul ( 3:08 )

    • Lesson 4-5: The Next Project ( 1:52 )

Instructor(s)

Alex Pickering and Matthew Breault and Lea Dizon

Alex Pickering, Matthew Breault and Lea Dizon recieved their M.F.A.s from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. The team, utilising Alex's professional screenwriting career, Matthew's award-winning direction and Lea's ten-plus years as a producer, created Impulse Control, an IndieWire Project of the Week Award winner and Panavision New Filmmaker Grant recipient.