The
technology for creating digital films, TV shows, animations and
video games is getting very inexpensive and easy to use. One of
the most important skill sets you can now develop for a career in
these areas is that of telling a great story. Make your own film by following these steps and sell it to an online movie channel.
The
new 20+ hour DVD workshop "Writing A Great Script Fast"
explores a universal story blueprint you can use to develop any
story idea fast. Eventually the whole video story engine will be
posted online with an interactive screenplay engine. Right now there
is the 94 minute sample version you can watch in 20 steps.
Below
is a sample video of the workshop featuring "40 Plot Points
For A Feature Film."
"Good
stories make you feel you've been through a satisfying, complete
experience. You've cried or laughed or both. You finish the story
feeling you've learned something about life or about yourself. Perhaps
you've picked up a new awareness, a new character, or attitude to
model your life on."
–
Christopher Vogler
Creating
Character Identification
How
do you get the audience to love and care about all of your characters
right away in the story? 36 character identification techniques
are explored.
Adding
Film Puzzles
How
can you add a puzzle idea to your main plot for the audience
to solve?
Symbolic
Plants
How
can you add some symbolic plants to your story to help tell
it visuall?
The
30 Second Film
What
are the basic plot points for a super short film or TV commercial?
Creating
Great Climaxes
The
climax needs to be the point of greatest intensity in your story,
where everything comes together and resolves in unexpected ways
using a series of twists.
How
To Write A Great Visual Hook
How
do you open a film to really hook an audience emotionally right
away?
Postmodern
Character Arcs
How
do you structure your story around a postmodern idea using character
arcs?
Scene
Reversals
How
can you add a shock, surprise, twist or reversal to each scene
in your film? Reversals train the audience to be in a state
of intense suspense wondering what is going to happen next throughout
your entire story.
Repeating
Story Elements
How
can you use repeating elements in your story to help tell it
visually?
Adaptations
Learn
11 steps for taking any story from a movie, story, novel, comic
book or TV show and turning the best parts of the idea into
a new version.
Writing
Dialogue
Dialogue
in a film needs to sound real and original at the same time
while being used only when things cannot be shown. Use these
25 techniques to write emotionally charged realistic dialogue.
Foreshadowing
Audiences
are trained to expect foreshadowing. Learn 9 ways to cue an
audience about important events coming up at in your story.
"A
novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one
way or another work toward that last chapter... To me, it's utterly
basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret."
–
Leon Uris
Watch
some sample movies below from the online Story Engine on Storytelling
Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short
films are samples from the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Follow
along and create a great film or story idea fast! Download the Workbook
PDF fileor
DOC
file to edit. You can also use a notebook or paper and the Online
Workbook or watch it
in 20 Steps.
Sample
Movies
Below
are some sample movies from the 94 minute version above on Storytelling
Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short
films are part of the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Learn
how to include themes in your films and stories in this free sample
movie from the new step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Learn
how to use Metaphors and Symbols in your films, animations or stories
from the new step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Writing A Great Script Fast Makes Screenwriting Easy!