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Photography Fundamentals -- Seeing Before Shooting

I was a Look Magazine photographer before I was a filmmaker. Still photography teaches you composition in ways no film school can. One frame. One moment. No second chances. We shoot on the street with 35mm cameras. Tip: The subject is never the subject. The LIGHT on the subject is the subject.

35mm Film Camera (Arriflex IIC)

The same model I used for Paths of Glory and Spartacus. Pin-registered gate, crystal sync motor. This camera taught me everything about exposure, framing, and the cost of mistakes (film stock isn't cheap). Comes with three prime lenses: 25mm, 50mm, and 85mm.

Comedy of Equals Workshop -- Screwball Technique

Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story are screwball comedies -- the man and woman are EQUALS in wit, speed, and stubbornness. I teach rapid-fire dialogue, physical comedy with dignity, and how to win an argument on screen while making the audience love both sides.

Golden Age Script Collection (12 Bound Screenplays)

Bound scripts from my best films: The Philadelphia Story, African Queen, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, Bringing Up Baby, and more. Tracy used to say reading the script was my religion. He was right. Study these. Then throw them away and find your own truth.

Playing the Villain -- Making Evil Magnetic

My best roles were women the audience shouldn't root for -- and did anyway. Margo Channing, Baby Jane Hudson, Regina Giddens. The secret? Villains believe they're the hero. Play their conviction, not their cruelty. We build three-dimensional antagonists in this workshop.

Vintage Cigarette Holder & Prop Kit

Art deco cigarette holders (long and short), prop cigarettes, and a lighter. I used cigarettes as punctuation marks -- a drag for emphasis, a flick for dismissal, a crush for rage. Props are an actor's secret weapon. This kit teaches you to use objects as extensions of emotion.

Radio Drama Production Workshop -- Theatre of the Mind

No picture. No set. Just voices, sound effects, and the listener's imagination. I panicked a nation with War of the Worlds using nothing but a microphone and clever editing. Radio drama is the purest form of storytelling. We write, record, and produce a 10-minute piece in one session.

Film Fight Choreography Session

Learn to design fight scenes for camera. Real combat is ugly. Screen combat is poetry. I'll show you camera angles, timing, and how to sell a punch that misses by six inches. Every fight tells a story -- what's yours?

The Paradigm Workshop -- 3-Act Structure Masterclass

The workshop that changed screenwriting worldwide. In four hours, I break down the three-act structure using your favorite films. You'll never watch a movie the same way again. Bring a film you love and I'll show you its skeleton. Tip: The first ten pages are everything -- that's where the reader decides to keep going or toss your script.

Script Coverage & Notes -- Professional Feedback

Send me your screenplay (120 pages max). I'll read it, write detailed notes on structure, character, and dialogue, and return a 3-page coverage report. I've read over 2,000 screenplays for Cinemobile Systems and another 2,000 for the Royal Swedish Film Institute. I know what works.

Screenplay by Syd Field (Annotated Copy)

My personal annotated copy of Screenplay -- the book that's been called the bible of screenwriting. Margin notes from 30 years of teaching. Dog-eared pages. Coffee stains from late nights at Musso & Frank. Read it, return it, write your script.

Comedy Timing Workshop -- The Art of the Pause

Comedy lives in the silence between lines. I teach you where to breathe, where to look, and where to let the audience catch up. We study Some Like It Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes frame by frame. Tip: If you're rushing the punchline, you don't trust the joke.