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.
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!
