The Author As Producer

The Author As Producer
Published 5/2025
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The business of Storytelling for creative professionals

What you’ll learn

Understand the business side of storytelling

Improve networking skills in the creative industries

Understand how projects are created, developed and purchased by the media industries

Understand how films and series are funded and how they generate revenue

Identify and access different sources for project funding

Understand what are author rights and how they apply to your stories

Understand the panorama of the stakeholders in the film business: producers, distributors, sales agents, funding boards.

Requirements

There are no prerequisites. This course is designed to anyone that likes to tell stories and would like to see their stories transformed into films, series, videogames, virtual realities, theatre plays. or any form of storytelling still to be invented.

Description

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome!

Lecture 2 Story as a business

Lecture 3 The word of Benjamin

Section 2: Film as a business

Lecture 4 What does it take to produce a film?

Lecture 5 How does a film profit?

Lecture 7 Stakeholders: streamings, producers, festivals – How to read credits

Lecture 8 Target and audience design

Section 3: Producers: what do they eat and how they reproduce?

Lecture 9 What does a producer do?

Lecture 10 The different types of producers: creative, development, executive, associate

Lecture 11 Thinking your projects as a producer

Section 4: Intellectual Property

Lecture 12 Very basic intro on author rights

Lecture 13 Types of contract – Purchase vs options vs service contract

Section 5: Career Strategies

Lecture 14 Career goals and the means to reach them

Lecture 15 Agents, Lawyers, Managers

Lecture 16 Packaging and Project Strategy
Section 6: Story development and Creative Process

Lecture 17 How stories become projects, projects become scripts and scripts become films

Lecture 18 Finding and refining your creative voice

Lecture 19 Developing strong projects

Lecture 20 Laboratories, residencies, development grants

Section 7: Networking & Pitching

Lecture 21 I have a project now what? Where to Network

Lecture 22 Organizing industry contacts/How to approach players

Lecture 23 Networking Materials – business cards, pitch deck, website

Lecture 24 How to create and deliver a strong pitch

Section 8: Career Development

Lecture 25 Next steps