How to write a great story – John Truby komt naar Berlijn
Donderdag 20 augustus, 2015
After sold-out classes in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, London and Paris, Hollywoods premier screenwriting instructor John Truby is coming to Berlin (October 20-22). Here he will offer his Anatomy of Story Master Class.
John Truby serves as a story consultant for major studios and production companies worldwide, and has been a script doctor on more than 1,800 movies, sitcoms and television dramas.
Drawing on a broad range of concepts and archetypes from writing, philosophy and mythology, Truby’s Anatomy of Story Master Class offers fresh techniques and insightful principles that help writers to construct effective and multi-layered narratives.
About John Truby
John Truby is Hollywood’s premier screenwriting instructor and story consultant. From Los Angeles to New York to Paris, London, Sydney, and other film capitals around the world, Truby regularly gives his seminars to packed houses around the world.
Pixar, Disney, Sony Pictures, Fox, HBO, the BBC, Universal and MTV are only some of the companies that regularly send their top writers and producers to Truby’s class. His students worked on such film blockbuster as Pirates of the Caribbean, X-Men I/II/III, Shrek, Mother Mary of Christ, Ratatouille, In Treatment, Breaking Bad, House, Lost, Planet of the Apes, Scream, Fantastic Four, The Negotiator, Star Wars, Outbreak, African Cats and more.
Truby serves as a story consultant for major studios and production companies worldwide, and has been a script doctor on more than 1.800 movies, sitcoms and television dramas. His Anatomy of Story Master Class is the most modern, exciting approach and method to screenwriting and storytelling to be developed in a generation.
Over the course of a 25-year career as Hollywood’s most respected and sought-after screenwriting teacher and story analyst, Truby offers successful and proven principles that allows the writer to precisely map their entire plot in a way that allows them to tell their story in the most dramatic way possible.
Drawing on a broad range of concepts and archetypes from writing, philosophy and mythology, Truby’s Master Class offers fresh techniques and insightful principles that allow the writer to design an effective, multi-layered, multifaceted narrative.
Truby: Stories that want to be told are not “out there.” They’re in you. In my class, I talk about a number of key writing exercises that help you find what is totally original to you. Incredibly, most writers don’t know, and it’s a fatal mistake. Then we go through the techniques you must know to turn that original seed into a professionally told story. An original idea professionally told is an unbeatable combination. It’s not easy, but it can be done and it’s the only recipe I know that works.
DAY 1
- How to find the perfect story design
- Three confusions that hurt writers
- Uncovering the myth of 3-act story structure
- Seven Steps to deep structure
- Creating the single driving force
- Variations to classic story structure
- Key weaknesses of myth, fairy tale and drama
- Developing a great premise
- Building the hero from the ground up
- How the “character web” works
- True character change and how to write it
- Five Major character changes
- Keys to the perfect opponent
- Sequencing the moral elements of the story
DAY 2
- The 22 building blocks of every great script
- Pacing by character growth, not page number
- Keys to the perfect opponent
- Creating the visual world
- Using the subplot
- Setting the tag line
- Building the reveals
- Choosing the right story shape
- Creating the strong middle
- The trick to scene sequencing
- How to write 3-track dialogue
- Secrets of building the scene
- Dialogue that increases the conflict
DAY 3
- Detailed Analysis of the Genres:
Action, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Fantasy, Horror, Love, Masterpiece, Myth, SciFi, Thriller and Mixed Genres
- What each genre really means
- Sequencing the moral elements of the story
- The central theme of each form
- Key structure techniques for each genre
- Mixing genres: The best strategies for story success
- Bending the genre rules for originality
- Techniques for transcending each genre
For further information on the Master Class, please visit the website of: www.sweetyproductions.com
Regular price for this three day Master Class: 595 euro