4-DAY FILM SCHOOL: From Idea to Premiere
3./4. und 10./11. März 2012, München
Learn powerful new story development techniques from idea to script to screen with master development experts Tom Schlesinger and Keith Cunningham. Through lecture, film clips and actual development sessions, you will learn the secrets of Creative Flow Continuity, Solution-Oriented Development, and Evolving and Unfolding the Creative Core of your stories.
DAY ONE: From Concept to Treatment
- How to recognize the relative strengths and potential audiences for your story ideas
- How to begin from starting points that fit your creative temperament: real-world research, passionately held values, reasoned argument, or intuitive imagery
- How the FOUR DEVELOPMENT MODELS can guide you in the early steps of developing your concept
- How to orchestrate the text and subtext of your story idea
DAY TWO: From Treatment to Screenplay
- Learn to use the FOUR DEVELOPMENT MODELS to give you confidence and accelerate your work
- Learn the screenplay structure/storytelling idiom that best fits your goals
- Create the solid story and plot that clearly expresses your Creative Core idea
- Discover and dramatically articulate the Character/Plot/Theme unity of your work
- Learn solution-oriented techniques for working with collaborators
DAY THREE: Sharpening Your Vision through Revisions and Re-Writes
- Discover the positive power of revisions to focus and crystallize your Creative Core into your screenplay
- Learn how interactive techniques such as improv, constellations, and scene/beat analysis can improve your re-writing
- The real story is the story the writer discovers in the act of writing: discover how to see through your own blind spots as a writer
- Collaborating with the director to weave visual motifs from the director’s vision into the screenplay, and from the screenplay into the production design
DAY FOUR: From Script to Screen
- Refine and perfect the cinematic quality of your story
- Refining your writing to fit the actors cast in your project
- Refining your story according to the practical limits of the budget
- Learn how editing is in fact the last draft of your screenplay, and a great opportunity for important revisions
- Gain valuable tools that can be used in your next screenplay
Seminar in englischer Sprache
Keith Cunningham wurde in Deutschland bekannt mit seinen Arbeiten über Mythen und die Psychologie der Kreativität. Der ausgebildete Psychologe (Tiefenpsychologie und Archetypenlehre nach C.G.Jung) gehört mit seinem Buch THE SOUL OF SCREENWRITING weltweit zu den renommiertesten Drehbuchlehrern und -beratern. Er arbeitet u.a. für das American Film Institute in L.A., die Writers Guild of America, die RAI in Italien und eine ganze Reihe Münchner Produktionsfirmen.
www.keithcunningham.net
Thomas Schlesinger received a Master of Fine Arts in Theater Arts at UCLA, and studied storytelling for ten years under the tutelage of mythologists Joseph Campbell and Jean Houston. He teaches his „Screenwriter as Storyteller“ seminars under the auspices of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm Ltd., the American Film Institute, and various studios and film schools internationally.
www.writingfilms.com