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  Robert McKee's STORY Seminar / NYC April 26-29th 2012
Robert McKee's Story Seminar
Robert McKee
 



"McKee's teachings are the law of the land at Pixar"  - The Pixar Touch 

For over 25 years, Robert McKee's Story Seminar has been the world's ultimate writing class for over 50,000 screenwriters, filmmakers, TV writers, novelists, industry executives, actors, producers, directors, and playwrights. 

We invite you to spend four stimulating and information-packed days with Robert McKee as he reveals the essential elements of story design that help separate great stories from the rest of the pack. 

This is a rare opportunity to attend McKee's Story Seminar.


Our Price: $765.00

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Choose Class*: 		New York City, NY - April 26th to April 29th

 
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Robert McKee invite's you to join him for four stimulating and information-packed days with Robert McKee 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 four 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.”

Ideal for Screenwriters, TV Writers, Novelists, Playwrights, Filmmakers,
Directors, Producers, Documentary Makers, Actors and more!
Features
  • Story Seminar Agenda

    DAY 1
    • The writer and the art of story
    • The decline of story in contemporary film
    • 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
    • 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 3
    • 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 characters, the story setting,
    • creating back story
    • The principles of antagonism
    • Crisis, climax and resolution

    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
    • The spectrum of story genres

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