Robert McKee's Story Seminar - New York

McKee's 'Story' shows how Structure is created of Character not plot, rules, and formulae.

Details

Presented by: The Writers Store

Start date: Oct 22, 2009 9:00 AM

End date: Oct 25, 2009 8:30 PM

Location:
Hotel Penn - Sky Top Ballroom
401 Seventh Avenue (at 33rd St.)
New York, NY 10001
United States
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Phone: 310-441-5151

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Description

Robert McKee invites you to join him for four stimulating and information-packed days with 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."

STORY SEMINAR SYLLABUS

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

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