The Scriptfella Program
Radically improve your chances of landing an agent, manager, and script deals.
Are you locked out of Hollywood?
The brutal truth: many agents and producers HATE reading. You can have a killer logline, plot and character journeys — but if your script is hard to read, and dull to read, agents and producers won't even get to page 5, let alone slug it through to your act three twist. Writing a “quite good” script isn’t good enough. You need to learn to entertain the reader from page 1 to fade out.
That’s where I come in.
My flagship on-demand course The Scriptfella Program teaches advanced screenwriting techniques to create cinematic, reader-friendly scripts that film industry gatekeepers can't put down. Let me show you in 12 hours what it took me over 20 years to learn as a professional working screenwriter.
Hope isn’t a strategy. Time to train.
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Have you hit the screenwriting wall?
You write screenplay after screenplay, but you don’t know how to get an agent or manager.
You spend a fortune on screenwriting contests and the Black List - but you’re scoring 7/10 at best and never make it past the semis.
You nail a killer concept, characters, and plot - but your script still fails to win the attention of industry insiders.
You network your ass off and persuade a manager or producer to read your script - but you never hear back from them.
If this is you, then you’ve hit The Screenwriting Wall. The point where your writing is quite good — but it’s not good enough, and worst of all — for all the toil, time and resources you’re expending, your writing isn't improving.
If you can learn to entertain industry readers and give them "a good night in", they will introduce you and your work to agents and producers — and put you forward for representation and paid writing assignments.
The Scriptfella Program can teach you how to write for the Hollywood reader.
If you want to see The Program in action, watch the FREE CLASS.
The scriptfella Program
Learn to Write For The Hollywood Reader
Learn how to use language to bewitch industry readers and keep them reading.
Discover your voice as a writer and use it to get noticed by managers and agents.
Learn how to cure the biggest disease of amateur screenwriting: overwriting.
Do away with dull description. Excite the reader with cinematic language, sound design, and imagery.
Access intensive on-demand screenwriting tutorials that will give you a toolkit to improve the marketability and readability of all your scripts - past, present and future.
Develop the critical skills to distinguish what you should put in the script and what you should leave out.
The endgame? Learn to put the reader's enjoyment and entertainment first, which will win you fans and general meetings in Hollywood — and put you in contention for paid writing assignments, which are the real game for pro screenwriters.
Most pro writers take ten years to learn what WGA Screenwriter Dominic Morgan can teach you in 12 hours — knowledge that you can't find in any of the screenwriting books or even at a $100k L.A. film school.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
DOMINIC MORGAN | WGA SCREENWRITER
I've written 45 screenplays. 35 of them were optioned, commissioned, or paid for by producers and studios -- including Ridley Scott's Scott Free, Universal, Working Title, the BBC, ITV Studios, and Bold Films. I've been represented by 8 agents, 4 managers, and 1 attorney across London and Hollywood.
I've been doing this for over two decades. I've also read over a thousand scripts by emerging writers in that time.
Here's what I've learned. The writers who get signed and get hired all have one thing in common -- they are a great read. That's the advanced writing skill nobody teaches. And it's the reason I created The Scriptfella Program -- to train you to radically improve your writing and your readability. So you can maximise your chances of getting an agent, optioning a script, and getting hired.
The Learning Journey
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- (FREE TASTER CLASS - CLICK TO WATCH) Why you need to hijack the Hollywood reader’s brain
-Cinematic vs “instruction manual” writing
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-The five visual elements - A belt & braces primer
-How to write for the camera
-(FREE CLASS - CLICK TO WATCH) How to write a cinematic sequence
-Assignment 1: The Shot Game
-How to create moving camera shots on the page
-Assignment 2: page 1 image bombs
-How to use costume & props in your script
-Acting on the page
-Optimize your locations
-9 ways to light up your screenplay Pt 1
-9 ways to light Pt 2: Case Study, 1917 (Wilson-Cairns)
-9 ways to light Pt 3
-9 ways to light Pt 4: How to Use Colour Psychology on The Page
-The sixth element: sound design
-Reader psychology
-Assignment 3: Write like Renato
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-NARRATIVE VOICE - The Lowdown
-NARRATIVE VOICE - The Princess Bride (Goldman)
-NARRATIVE VOICE - Promising Young Woman (Fennell)
-NARRATIVE VOICE - The Brigands of Rattleborge (Zahler)
-NARRATIVE VOICE - The Good Wife (King & King)
-NARRATIVE VOICE - A Cautionary Tale (Morgan)
-NARRATIVE VOICE - Is Alien REALLY a Good Read?
-NARRATIVE VOICE - Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
-NARRATIVE VOICE - 7 Lessons
-ASSIGNMENT 4 & 5 - Narrative Voice Switchup
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-(FREE LESSON - CLICK TO WATCH) SENTENCE CONSTRUCTIONS - Why N.V.O. Rocks
-THE CLAUSE OPENING - A Major Banana Skin for Screenwriters
-THE PERILS OF THE PASSIVE
-VANILLA VERBS - Hunt Them Down
-VANILLA ADJECTIVES - Search & Destroy
-SUBOPTIMAL VERBS - Is & Are
-THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS - When Should You Use It?
-WE SEE & WE HEAR - Do You Want to Detach the Reader from the Characters?
-ASSIGNMENT 6 - IMMERSIVE SCREENWRITING - Rewrite Page One of Baby Driver
-THE CLOSE PROXIMITY DISEASE
-ONE SHOT WORD WEAPONS
-SCENE GEOGRAPHY - Don't Get Stuck In the Bocage
-THE TEN DISEASES OF DIALOGUE (AND CURES) - Part 1
-THE TEN DISEASES OF DIALOGUE (AND CURES) - Part 2
-HOW TO MASTER A CHARACTER INTRODUCTION - Six Techniques
-THE TRICKY TEAM CHARACTER INTRO
-HOW TO NAME YOUR CHARACTERS
-WHY YOU NEED TO FIGHT FOR THE INCHES ON THE PAGE
-ASSIGNMENT 7: THE COPACABANA ONER
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-ELKINGTON'S WAR - By Matthew Skeate
-THE WITCH - By Roberto Gerardo
-KILLER RATINGS - By Jack Carey
-PROMISELAND - by Doug Tucker
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-HOW TO HOOK A READER ON PAGE 1
-THE TITLE PAGE - Just The Facts
-PAGE ONE - Page Design
-THE OPENING IMAGE - Your Whole Story in One Picture
-HOW TO OPEN A MOVIE ON PAGE ONE - Narc (Carnahan)
-THE FINAL ASSIGNMENT: OPTIMIZE YOUR PAGE ONE FOR THE HOLLYWOOD READER
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-LEARN FROM THE PROS BY READING PRODUCED SCRIPTS
THE SCRIPTFELLA PROGRAM
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12 hours of intensive video training
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3-year course access
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8 assignments
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Every lesson includes actionable steps to improve your writing
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Exclusive access to the alumni group to connect with other writers and directors
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Payment plan available
Testimonials
Pedro Correa | Writer/Director
"No one is teaching what Dom's teaching. It's like Plato's Cave; once you've seen the light, it can't be unseen."
Sophie Curtis | Writer/Director
"Dom helps you not only find your voice, but own your voice. Thank you for honestly changing my life."
Doug Tucker | Screenwriter
"My creative partner read my new draft and went 'Holy sh!t...' "
FAQS
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The Scriptfella Program is designed to help every screenwriter who wants to optimize their screenplay for industry readers and learn to write in a more visual and engaging way.
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Three years. The video tutorials are designed to act as a long-term writing resource for you. Watch the video above and hear how writer Alex Knight uses the tutorials as his go-to toolkit when writing.
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Absolutely not. All you need is the first page, which we will focus on in molecular detail. The techniques that I teach you to action on your page one, you’ll then be able to apply to the rest of your screenplay, and all your future screenplays.
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Regardless of the genre you’re working in, you only have one weapon at your disposal as a writer - your words. Dominic will teach you how to optimize your use of language and create a visual script that plays in the head of the reader.
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The Scriptfella Program costs $649, which is equivalent to 4 Blacklist evaluations, or 3 contests with notes -- none of which are going to provide skills and toolsets that you can apply to all of your writing and help you become a better writer. It's a fraction of the cost of going to an LA film school for $100k - and they don’t teach what Dominic can teach you.
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Yes. You can split the cost of The Scriptfella Program over two monthly payments of $375, for a total of $750.