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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
$35.00
McKee's workshops have earned him a reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting screenwriting careers back on track. In Story, McKee expands on the concepts in his seminars, providing readers with a comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of screenwriting.
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Robert McKee's Story Seminar
Robert McKee
Description
Robert McKee invites you to join him for four stimulating and information-packed days with him as he reveals the essential elements of story design that help separate great stories from the rest of the pack. Using examples from over 100 films, in addition to television shows and novels, Robert McKee demonstrates why structure and story design are about form and principles, not formulas and rules.
Each 4-day Story event runs Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, beginning at 9:00am and closing at 7:00pm each day.
Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Goldman wrote, in his most recent book, "It's three full days over a single weekend, and no one feels cheated when he's done. I wish he had been around when I started writing CUT TO for a living."
Bestselling novelist Steve Pressfield simply said, "McKee is not only the best teacher of writing I've ever had, but the best teacher of anything."
DAY 1:
-The writer and the art of story
-The decline of story in contemporary film, television, theatre and literature
-Story design: the meaning of story, the substance of story, the limitations and inspirations of story structure & genre, the debate between character vs story design
-Premise Idea, Counter Idea, Controlling Idea
-Story Structure: beat, scene, sequence, act, story
-Mapping the Story universe: Archplot, Miniplot, Antiplot
-Shaping the source of story energy and creation
DAY 2:
-Act design: the great sweep and body of story
-The first major story event (the inciting incident)
-Scene design in Story: turning points, emotional dynamics, setup/payoff, the nature of choice
-Ordering and linking scenes
-Exposition: dramatizing your characters, the story setting, creating back story
-The principles of antagonism
-Crisis, climax and resolution
DAY 3:
-Putting the elements of story together
-The principles of character dimension and design
-The composition of scenes
-Titles
-Irony; Melodrama
-False endings
-The text: description, dialogue, and poetics
-The spectrum of story genres
DAY 4:
-Story adaptations
-Scene analysis: text and sub-text; design through dialogue versus design through action
-The writer's method: working from the inside out; the creative process from inspiration to final draft.
-How it all works: the principles of the previous 3-1/2 days applied in a 6-hour, scene-by-scene screening and analysis of Casablanca
Hours: 9:00 am to 7:00 pm each day.
Locations:
LOS ANGELES:
September 10-13, 2009
The Theatre
Westin Hotel (at LAX)
5400 W. Century Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90045
NEW YORK:
October 22-25, 2009
Hotel Penn
Sky Top Ballroom
401 Seventh Avenue (at 33rd St.)
New York, N.Y., 10001
Cancellations are refunded less a $75 administrative fee up to 11 days prior to the seminar. Starting 10 before the seminar, cancellations are not refunded but deferred to a future seminar anywhere in the U.S.
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