John Truby's Secrets of Genre Seminar

Description

The first rule of the entertainment business is: it buys and sells genres. Today's most popular movies are always at least one story form, and usually a combination of two or three.

Problem: almost no one is an expert at the intricate array of beats, tricks and techniques required by the eleven most popular movie genres.

Hollywood's top genre expert, John Truby, will show you the top secrets of the most popular story forms in the entertainment business.

Course includes:

- Secrets of Action, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Fantasy, Horror, Love, Masterpiece, Myth, Science Fiction, Thriller and Mixed Genre

- What each genre really means below the surface

- The central theme of each form

- 3 ways to handle genre and which one is best

- Key structure points for each genre

- Mixing genres: the key strategy for blockbusters

- How to bend the genre rules to make your script original

John Truby is a writer/director whose feature, ALL-AMERICAN BOY, won Best Dramatic Film (Gold Special Jury Award) at the Houston International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Picture at the Hollywood Film Festival.

He has taught his 22-Step Great Screenwriting and Genre classes to over 20,000 students worldwide. He has also worked as a story consultant and script doctor for Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, FOX, HBO, Alliance Atlantis, and Cannell Studios. In Europe, Mr. Truby has consulted for the BBC, RAI, LUX, TV4 and MTV Sweden. His students include the writer/director/or producer for the following films:

* Shrek
* Pirates of the Caribbean
* The Mask of Zorro
* Nightmare on Elm Street
* Outbreak
* Scream
* Sleepless in Seattle
* Back to School
* The Addams Family
* Kiss of the Spider Woman
* Beetlejuice
* Valley Girl
* The Negotiator
* Star Wars

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