4-DAY FILM SCHOOL: Writing Great Films

5./6. und 12./13. November 2011, film.coop München

Be inspired to find creative solutions, meet commercial challenges, and write successful screenplays from the development experts whose clients have won awards internationally. 

DAY ONE: Screenwriting Essentials
Learn how your creative journey connects you powerfully with your characters and audience, and how to:

• Dramatically express the unity of plot, character, theme, and style
• Keep the audience hooked through the middle act by using the three dimensions of conflict
• Develop Core Triangles of Characters to drive your stories implacably toward the dramatic and thematic climax

DAY TWO: Writing Great Comedies
Learn the 23 Essential Elements to write successful comedies that you can immediately apply to your current screenplays, and how to:

• Master the art of the comic premise
• Orchestrate your comic characters for maximum humor
• Balance comic tones with dramatic tones
• Generate new commercial comedies for film and television

DAY THREE: Writing Great Melodramas
Learn how to emotionally engage your audience through orchestrating characters in family networks, and how to:

• Develop fresh and original characters, and reveal their back-stories with economy and precision
• Discover and clarify the conflict of values in the family network that generates dramatic momentum from start to finish
• Focus on scene structure to bring out the deep melodrama themes
• Incorporate tragic, comic, and thriller motifs into the melodrama structure

DAY FOUR: Writing Great Thrillers
Learn the secret strategy to map out your thriller plots, and how to: 

• Orchestrate the Four Lines of Thriller Exposition
• Articulate twists, turns and reversals for maximum surprise and suspense
• Define your thriller according to the central dramatic situation and action motifs
• Arrange the Core Triangle of Characters to create the most enthralling experience for the audience

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