Truby's Blockbuster 6.0 Genre Add-on

You must own Truby's Blockbuster 6.0 to install this software. 

Genre Add-ons connect seamlessly to your Blockbuster 6.0 program and give you customized 7-Keys and 22-Steps along with three movie examples for your chosen genre. It will not work with previous Truby Blockbuster software. If you own a previous version of Truby's Blockbuster, you can upgrade for $59.00.

Truby’s Blockbuster is the only screenwriting program of its kind to focus on writing for specific genres. With add-ons for action, comedy, horror and every genre of screenwriting, Blockbuster can be tailored to fit exactly the style of movie you're working on. Each genre add-on includes:

Story Beats: apply all the specialized Story Beats for the genre to your script and learn how to twist each beat to make your story original.

Specialized Maps: use the Maps to keep track of all the unique elements in your script.

Genre Class: learn professional techniques straight from Truby, organized and available when and where you need it most.

Story Examples: solve all your story problems using the included Story Examples.

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Action

Many people think action movies lack character, plot and theme, but they're mistaken. The best action films have deep stories, complex characters and a profound effect on the audience.

Truby’s Action add-on helps you weave all the elements that make an original, tightly-plotted action story using:

• 6 key story beats of any action story
• Action character map
• Fight sequences map
• Warrior techniques
• Action genres
• Inherent problems to avoid
• Action moral arguments
• How to write action scenes
• Beats for transcending the action form

Samples include Die Hard, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Lethal Weapon

Comedy

Comedy is the single most successful story form and is often combined with other forms, which is just one reason why comedy is so difficult. Comedy has at least seven different structures, each with very different story beats from the others.

The Comedy add-on shows you all the secrets of a successful movie comedy while you write, using:

• 11 key story beats of all great comedy stories
• Structure steps for the 7 major comedy stories
• Character map
• Growth map
• Nightmare sequences in great comedy
• Comedy errors and how to avoid them
• Inherent problems in writing any comedy
• Keys to great comedy
• Advanced comedy story beats
• Essential comedy forms

Samples include Tootsie, Ghostbusters, and City Slickers

Crime

The Crime genre is quite different from the Detective form, because it isn't about uncovering crime. It's either about committing it or fighting it. Some crime stories get inside the criminal organization and the criminal mind. Others take the point of view of the cop, the warrior in a blue uniform who has to fight those who make their own laws.

The Crime add-on will help you become a topnotch crime writer, using:

• 8 key story beats of the crime story
• Nightmare sequences in great crime
• Crime map: how to sequence the crimes
• Knowledge map: how the detective uncovers the crimes
• Fight sequence
• Crime genres and their story beats
• Inherent problems in writing any crime story
• Ideal method for writing crime stories
• Social World for crime stories
• Transcending the crime story

Samples include Witness, French Connection and The Grifters

Detective

The plot-intensive Detective Story used to drive writers crazy as they tried to keep track of suspects, motives, alibis and crimes. Not anymore.

Let the Detective add-on be your guide to a great whodunit, using: 

• 10 key story beats of the detective story
• Suspects map
• Crime map: how to sequence the crimes
• Detective's knowledge sequence
• Social levels
• Detective genres and their story beats
• Detective archetypes
• Inherent problems in writing any detective story
• Moral arguments for good detective stories
• Transcending the detective story

Samples include Chinatown, Maltese Falcon, and Murder on the Orient Express

Fantasy

The fantasy genre is as perfectly suited to the movie medium as you can find. Fantasy movies break reality, but because it's film, they do it in a highly "realistic" way. The result is that fantasy movies make the audience feel terrific. Suddenly everything seems possible.

The Fantasy add-on makes this normally complex process easy, using:

• 13 key story beats of the fantasy story
• Character map
• Nightmare sequence in great fantasy stories
• Fantasy world
• Fantasy high concept: key to good fantasy
• Premise setups
• Fantasy errors and how to avoid them
• Inherent problems in writing any fantasy
• Ideal method for writing fantasy stories
• Social world of fantasies

Samples include Mary Poppins, Big, and Field of Dreams

Horror

The Horror Story, at the simplest level, shows someone defeating a monster. It tends to be very predictable. Monster chases, hero flees.

But a writer who gets inside the form can do something that blows people away. The Horror add-on gives you the tools to surpass the tough expectations of the audience and really knock them out with something new and terrifying, using: 

• 15 key story beats of the horror story
• Character map
• Nightmare sequences in great horror
• Errors in horror and how to avoid them
• Inherent problems in writing any horror story
• Ideal method for writing horror stories
• Social world
• Symbols
• Transcending the horror form

Samples include Nightmare on Elm Street, King Kong, and The Shining

Love

If you are going to write a great love story, you'll want help every step of the way. A love story should naturally take ten minutes. Boy and girl meet, they feel a spark, the rest is negotiation. But you have to fill two hours and you have to make the audience not only see the love but feel it, want it, demand that it happen.

The Love add-on shows you the special beats of all the different kinds of love stories, helps you create two characters that people will really care about, and shows you how to add plot to a story that usually has almost none, using:

• 12 key story beats of the love story
• Love development
• Growth map
• Courting map
• Love genres and their story beats
• Inherent problems in writing any love story
• Life map for love stories
• Writing love scenes
• Social world for love stories
• Transcending the love story

Samples include Casablanca, Adam's Rib, and Pretty Woman

Masterpiece

Writing the Masterpiece is the highest accomplishment in fiction. Advanced fiction lets you express your unique vision and sets your work apart, but it is also more complex in theme and structure. Which is why most writers don't even attempt it, much less make it work.

The Masterpiece add-on puts great writing within your reach. It gives you the most advanced tools in the writer's arsenal, from the "great-souled" hero to advanced theme work, from alternative story structures to the all-important myth-drama and fairy tale-drama forms. It also includes:

• 7 key story beats of any masterpiece
• Growth map
• Alternative structures story beats
• Advanced character arcs
• Updating hero archetypes
• Ideal method for writing a masterpiece
• Advanced moral arguments
• Myth-drama stories: keys to advanced writing
• How to use story forms from nature to plot the script
• Structure chart

Samples include Network, How Green Was My Valley, and The Seven Samurai

Memoir & True Stories

Writing in the Memoir & True Stories genre seems as easy as transcribing what happened in your life. Don't be fooled. The challenge is severe because you have to tell a great story, with universal appeal, out of often-everyday events.

The Memoir & True Stories add-on shows you exactly how to turn your personal story into an audience favorite, at the same time you're writing the story. Using John Truby's simple but powerful "10-10-10 System," you will master all the tools the advanced true story writer needs to stand above the crowd.

Samples include Milk, Into Thin Air, Earth, and The Liars' Club

Myth

Myth is the most popular of all story forms, but it comes with many hidden pitfalls. Myth uses the journey structure, which is a very different kind of plotting technique than the one found in some other genres where the hero has to dig under the surface to get to the truth.

The Myth add-on will turn you into an expert myth storyteller, using: 

• 15 key story beats of the myth story
• Symbol/psyche map
• Social levels
• History of myth
• 10 New myths
• Hero archetypes
• Inherent problems in writing any myth story
• New myth heros
• Symbols
• Transcending the myth form

Samples include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Crocodile Dundee, and Dances With Wolves

Science Fiction

When you write science fiction, you’re writing an epic. Not in the old myth sense having to do with the fate of a nation. It's much bigger than that. Science fiction shows societal and universal evolution on the grandest scale. You are the sorcerer, predicting and imagining the natural and techno forces changing our world right now.

The Science Fiction add-on makes your job a lot easier, using:

• 11 key story beats of the science fiction story
• Character map
• Nightmare sequences in great science fiction
• Future world
• Physics theories
• Inherent problems in writing any science fiction story
• Ideal method for writing science fiction stories
• Transcending the sci-fi story

Samples include Alien, The Empire Strikes Back, and Blade Runner

Sitcom

Any successful sitcom writer-producer will tell you it's all about the story. The trick is knowing the sitcom story structures that actually produce the laughs, writing comedy from character, and playing with the ongoing web of oppositions. And most writers don't know how these things are done.

The SITCOM SOFTWARE helps you map out these oppositions and structures for whatever show you want to write for or create, using:

• 2-act A-structure map
• Episode worksheet
• Show breakdown chart
• Emmy-winning sitcom elements
• Sitcom errors and how to avoid them
• Scene structure in sitcoms
• Rewriting your script to make it a winner
• Pitching techniques
• Comic oppositions
• Character types for sitcoms

Samples include Seinfeld, Home Improvement, and Roseanne

Thriller

The Thriller is one of Hollywood's most popular forms because it combines the criminality and surprise of the detective form with the danger and pressure of horror. While the thriller usually involves a main character trying to find a murderer, it has very different story beats than the detective genre. Each step is geared toward wringing every last ounce of terror from the hero and the audience.

The Thriller add-on helps you lay out the story beats for maximum plot in minimum space, using:

• 9 key story beats of the thriller
• Character map
• Nightmare sequences in great thrillers
• Thriller genres and their story beats
• Inherent problems in writing any thriller
• Ideal methods for writing thrillers
• Transcending the thriller form

Samples include Silence of the Lambs, The Conversation, and Basic Instinct

TV Drama

Drama has moved to television. And so should you. The best dramatic writing in Hollywood is in TV 1-hour drama. Nowhere else do you have the opportunity to write from the heart and see it onscreen weeks later.

The TV Drama add-on helps you write a terrific hour-long script in a fraction of the time, using:

• 4-act structure map
• Show breakdown chart
• Format map
• Emmy-winning 1-hour TV drama elements
• Surface and deep structure maps
• TV 1-hour drama genres and their story beats
• Pitching techniques
• Ideal method for writing 1-hour drama
• Rewriting
• Scene structure in 1-hour drama

Samples include ER, NYPD Blue, and Murder, She Wrote

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

MACINTOSH:

OSX 10.5.7 and above, Java SE6 version 3 (Minimum screen resolution: 1280 x 800)

WINDOWS:

XP, Vista or Windows 7 (Minimum screen resolution: 1280 x 800)