Story Seminar Outline
Robert McKee's Story Seminar, over three intense days, teaches
you the principles involved in the art and craft of film writing and
story design, and proves the essence of good story is timeless.
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 and genre, the
debate between character versus story design;
Premise idea, counter idea, controlling idea;
Story structure: beat, scene, sequence, act, story;
Mapping the story universe: archplot, miniplot, antiplot; and
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: dramatising your character, the story setting,
creating back story;
The principles of antagonism; and
Crisis, climax and resolution.
DAY 3
Putting the elements of story together;
The principles of character dimension and design;
The text: description, dialogue and poetics;
The spectrum of story genres;
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; and
How it all works: the principles of the previous 2.5 days applied in a
6-hour, scene-by-scene screening and analysis of Casablanca.
Presented by Epiphany International Artists
33 hours over 3 days...
Melbourne Story NEW DATES 19, 20, 21 June 2009
9:30am - 8:30pm on each of the three days at
Kino Cinema, Lower Collins Place, 45 Collins Street Melbourne
Sydney Story NEW DATES 26, 27, 28 June 2009
9:30am - 8:30pm on each of the three days, venue TBC
mckeestory.com
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'McKee is Hollywood’s MOST WANTED screenwriting teacher... fanatically empowering... inspiring and enthralling' Movieline
'McKee is passionate... brilliant... he sermons on the need to reunite the great modern art form of cinema with the ancient craft of storytelling.' Newsday
'Knowledge of story design is just as vital for the novelist as it is for the screenwriter. Nobody imparts this wisdom like Robert McKee. He is not only the best teacher of writing I’ve ever had, but the best teacher of anything.' STEVE PRESSFIELD, author of 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' & 'Gates of Fire'
'McKee's showcase is a high octane graduate course in story telling as user friendly for the first time writer as it is invaluable for the seasoned, six figure professional' The New York Screenwriter
'It's an amazingly important course that I have gone back to do three times' JOHN CLEESE
'McKee's Story Seminar is incredibly helpful. The course shaped the way I approached writing and played a huge part in my career.'
TOM HALLMAN, Pulitzer Prize winning author
'...stimulating, innovative, refreshingly practical' LAWRENCE KASDEN, Screenwriter/Director 'The Empire Strikes Back', 'The Big Chill'
'The Accidental Tourist'
'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 for a living.' WILLIAN GOLDMAN, author and two time Academy Award winning screenwriter 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
'McKee's Story is phenomenal... studios don't buy great ideas they buy great stories... McKee teaches you to turn an idea into a story, and a story into a screenplay' TOBY EMMERICH, Producer 'Hairspray', 'Wedding Crashers'
'At the heart of McKee's writing philosophy - what I gathered - is humanity... McKee's lectures combined dramaturgy, philosophy, emphasis on classical roots and writing nuts and bolts... But what made it fresh - what made it inspiring - was the way it was woven together, a Robert McKee theory of story' TODD LEOPOLD CNN Review of Story Seminar
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