The 2 Day 
​How to Create,
Market &
Monetize
Your Writing

April 27-28, 2024
12pm -3pm (Mountain)

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The 2 Day Retreat: How to Create, Market & Monetize Your Solo Show
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What You'll Learn
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You'll Learn how to create a complete marketing strategy to get that kind of visibility that turns into a paycheck

* How to Create Emotional Brand to target your specific audience
 

* How to Set Up Business Accounts for marketing and advertising


* How to create engaging social media posts that reach a larger audience


* How to leverage social media to self- produce/publish your own work or get a producer or publisher to do the heavy lifting



* You'll learn how to package your work so that you can find your audience
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TheDreamingOutLoud Emotional Type Technique: What's Your Emotional Type  & How Can It Double Your Auditions?

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1. How to Identify Limiting Belief Systems & Establish Goals for Actor Emotional Branding

2.  Identify your 4 Major Recurring Emotional Chords so that you can package yourself to your agent &  managers

3. Using the DreamingOutLoud Technique's ListsMaking, Questions, Reframing with the Anatomy of a Lie, True Node North Analysis to establish major recurring emotional themes in both your personal and professional life

4. Identify, coach 4 scenes that represent your emotional chords


5. Stamp Your Physical Marketing with your Unique Emotional Brand using color, hair, make-up & costuming for shoot, reel and the audition room (i.e. natural hair or wig, neutral tones or color, nails or acrylics, everday wear vs audition ready, sporty casual or power suit, indoor photos vs location with natural lighting, etc)


6. Emotional Type Reel Shoot Prep: Create a short film of your four major emotional types: Scenes, set up, costuming & coaching of the scenes


7. How to Host a Emotional Branding Pitch Session for  Your Agent/Manager Team to get them on board with the Strategy to Double Your Auditions

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12 Step How to Write a Solo Show
​Overview

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• Virtual Online Class

• Enrollment in this class is open to all

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• Weeks 1: How to Generate Raw Story
  
  Week 2: How to Organize raw content into cohesive stories
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• Week 3: How to Create Character
  
  Week 4: How to Create a solid solo play structure
  
  Week 5: Produce Rough Draft of for 15 pages
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 The 12-Step
How to Be a Working TV Actor 
will arm you with every tool you need to take control of your career
& transform your life.

• Module 1: Are Your Beliefs Holding You Back?
• Module 2: Cultivating Consciousness
• Module 3: Connecting with Confidence
• Module 4: You Need An Audition Ritual
• Module 5: Master Script Analysis
• Module 6: Rock Your Self-Tapes
• Additional tools and exercises that build on the modules

• You can join us from anywhere in the world!  This class will take place online.  
  
  

• From OnCamera Technique
  
  
•  How to Sign with an Agent Who Sends You Out
  
  
• ​How to Put Together Your Full Actor's Arsenal from marketing, branding, to emotional  and physical type branding. 
  
  
• How to develop and maintain business relationships (CDs, Directors, Managers, Agents)
  
  
• How to incorporate and basically how to make a living doing what you love and all the secrets to actually being happy while you do it.​

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12 Step Finish Your Damn Script
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This class is ideal for ScreenWriters or Playwrights who know they want to produce their own work down the road.

​​Step 1: Creating a Writer Process

• DreamingOutLoud Daily Writer's Ritual
• ​Identify Limiting Beliefs & Rewrite Your Story

Step 2: Organizing Your Time

• Find the time to write
• Optimize the writing time you do have to make every minute count

​Step 3: Structure: The Before & After

• April's Outline Template to help you START Writing
• How to use an outline  solve structural problems in the finished script 

Step 4. Templates & Formats

• ​Industry Standard Screenplay Format
• Standard American Play Format

​Step 5. Great Writers Read Great Writers

• BadAssWriter's Ultimate ​Reading List

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Step 6: Write Into It

• Start with the Action
• Because Everything Else is Exposition (aka backstory, set-up)

Step 7.  The Art of Listening in the Silence

• Learn how to listen so that the story that wants to be told can emerge organically​

Step 8.  The Psychology of the Character

• How to Avoid Talking Head Syndrome
• How to create complicated layered characters with a rich and specific human history that is alive with them in the present

​Step 9.  What is the Story You Want to Tell?

• Identifying the event, the action and transformation scene by scene

Step 10: Let's Go Deep into the Outline

• How to outline your final draft to clarify character arcs, plot points and the pace of the story.

Step 11. The Roshamon Technique

• How changing the POV creates conflict, stakes & story momentum

Step 12.  The Business of Writing

• What Producers Are Looking For & How to Give it to Them​

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How to Be a Working TV Actor
OnCamera Class

• Virtual Online Class
  
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• 5 Weeks
  Mon & Wed
  ​7pm-9pm (EST)
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• Enrollment is open to theatre folks who want to move into Film/TV, but haven't had any training or experience working in the medium and keep getting stuck in the audition process 

• Live 1:1 coaching on your scenes focusing on the three most important elements of a successful onCamera technique:
  
  
• Meisner Technique: Listening & Responding 
  
  
• Letter Perfect Fast Memorization
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• Creating the Reality in the audition room based on your given circumstances
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• Each class is recorded for you to keep so you can track your progress
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• 6-8 Students per Class
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• Regular Price
  $679
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Open & Electronically Sign Letter of Agreement

The DreamUnLocked
Private Coaching & Class
Policies

The client understands: 

How We Will Work
To maximize our the goals of our work, all class participants are to log on to each class 5 mins prior to the start of class. 

That all homework is due 24 hours before the start of each class.

If a client is going to be absent, they should notify April 24 hours prior to the start of class.  All homework is still due 24 hours prior to class.  Should the client miss more than two classes in sequence, they will be required to schedule a make up session with April in order to continue the class.  The client will be billed for this session. 


There is no refund or exchange policy. 
Classes are small and focused on lots of 1:1 attention.  The client understands that once they register for a class,  their follow-through is required in order to maintain the integrity of the class.   

In short, don't quit on yourself and we won't quit on you. 


Credits
Credits are valid for one year from the date of the client's last coaching session/class. After which the credit is forfeit.  Credits are issued under extenuating circumstances and at the discretion of the Instructor.

Installment Payment Plans
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This contract is valid for all private coaching sessions and classes with April Yvette Thompson.  Payments are made via the purchase buttons on the website only or via PayPal.   No cash, checks or money orders will be accepted. 
 
All Coaching session packages and classes have the installment payment option.

The client understands that should they cancel the payment plan before the full price of the class is paid, they forfeit the right to any future payment plans for TheDreamUnLocked classes. 

 
​Late Payments
Installment payments are automated monthly.  If a payment doesn't go through on the due date, there is a $50.00 late fee added to your balance which is due immediately.  If the account is not brought up to date within 24 hours, there is a daily $25 late fee added for each day that the account is late.

All payments are non‐refundable and non‐transferable.


Homework & Due Dates
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You will receive homework assignments due dates via google calendar email or on the class members only forum which you should check daily.  All due dates  are by 5pm (EST).  

If you miss any of these deadlines, and homework is not turned in by deadline,  April reserves the right to discontinue the package or class immediately.  

Communication
All questions should be posted in TheDreamUnLocked Working Client Group on FB.

This group should be your first stop for asking questions, not emailing April. This group is a place for support and an exchange of ideas.

You have this group, all of the class recordings loaded to the class pages as resources. That should be the first step before emailing me.


If I’ve not responded to an email, it means that’s a question April has answered in class repeatedly and you’re not focusing and keeping up with the homework.


If you need more beyond class time, recordings and this group, you might consider paying for private coaching.

SHOP CLASSES
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17 month payment plan is for clients taking more than one class at a time

Private Coaching

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All classes are $697 and there are installment plans available.  Each class is designed to be taken over a 12 Week (or 3 month period with weekly lessons emailed directly to your inbox).  Once a month, there will be live office hours with April or Hilary to ask questions, get feedback on the work.    

When you pay full price, you get a complimentary private coaching session with Hilary or April ($500 value).
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Installment plans include tax + a finance charge

Packages

BONUSES

• What's your Emotional Type & How Can it Double Your Auditions ($499 value)
  
  

• Get UnStuck: Move into Film/TV ($399 value)
• Get on the Path to Pilot Season   
  ($399 value)
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• The Actor & the Business Crash Course ($400 value)
  
  
  

• How to Be a MotherF*cking Actor This Pilot Season
  ($399 value)
  
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