Outlining Techniques Before You Type FADE IN
Writing is hard work, and it will always be hard work. However, a solid outline will make sure that your sweat and tears are pushing your screenplay in the right direction.
In this brand new bundle, you'll learn how to develop your writing skills and create a well-structured narrative that will leave readers on the edge of their seats. Our techniques will help you transform your ideas into a gripping story. Start outlining now!
10 Steps to a Bulletproof Story Outline (OnDemand Webinar): Structure is just about everything in a screenplay. Your story outline is the blueprint for your movie. Therefore, it’s crucial that your outline is solid. Producers and story executives may labor over an outline for months before they “allow” the writer to go off and write a draft. As you work on your original screenplay, you may have to assume the role of all those other people in the room. It is up to you to make sure you are absolutely ready to write a solid draft. Having a systematic and thorough approach to assessing story outlines can save time in the actual writing process and be a creative adventure. ($39.99 value)
Creating Powerful Story Outlines: Character Driving Plot (OnDemand Webinar): Writing is hard work, and it will always be hard work. However, a solid outline will make sure that your sweat and tears are pushing your screenplay in the right direction. This OnDemand webinar will help screenwriters and novelists who are seeking to push the limits of their characters and story elements as well as filmmakers and story creators aiming for human resonance and emotional grounding in their projects. ($39.99 value)
Advanced Plot Construction: Developing and Outlining Your Story (OnDemand Webinar): Once you’ve sketched out your story idea, it’s time to develop and outline it. This is the craft of plot construction and Jeff Kitchen has been teaching it for over twenty years now. His three-step process, Sequence, Proposition, Plot is so effective at this that development executives at all the major Hollywood studios (to whom he's taught it) consistently say it's the most advanced development tool in the film industry. Not only is it a remarkably powerful outlining process, but it helps tighten and dramatize the material as you develop it, by focusing on cause and effect as well as conflict. ($39.99 value)
Outlining Your Movie: Internal vs. External Goals (OnDemand Webinar): Before you devote countless hours to writing your next screenplay, take time to test and develop the concept to save time in the long run! This tutorial shows screenwriters techniques to use when outlining stories that are character-centric and will drive readers to keep going until the last page. In the presentation, Timothy Cooper, expert writer and story consultant, discusses how to develop and test solid screenplay concepts. ($39.99 value)
Breaking Story Effectively: Creating the Elements You Need to Write Solid Script Pages (OnDemand Webinar): Structure is just about everything in a screenplay. Your story outline is the blueprint for your movie. Therefore, it’s crucial that your outline is solid. Producers and story executives may labor over an outline for months before they “allow” the writer to go off and write a draft. As you work on your original screenplay, you may have to assume the role of all those other people in the room. It is up to you to make sure you are absolutely ready to write a solid draft. Having a systematic and thorough approach to assessing story outlines can save time in the actual writing process and be a creative adventure. ($39.99 value)
From Premise to Page: Developing Your Screenplay Idea (OnDemand Webinar): In this OnDemand webinar, you'll go through exercises that will help you examine your ideas, concepts and characters and develop them into more fleshed out stories. We will look at the driving forces of story including character, conflict, hook, stakes, and voice to make sure you’re writing the best version of your story, and that it’s the right story for YOU to tackle. ($39.99 value)
How Professional Writers Structure Their Scripts (OnDemand Webinar): If you read the scripts that are selling in this marketplace, you’ll quickly realize that they aren't following the same old tired rules and formulas. This is why agents and managers say that they can spot a popular paradigm script from a mile away. These scripts never succeed. This OnDemand webinar teaches you the specific tools and techniques professional writers use to create flexible, non-formulaic structure that supports what is unique and original about your story, characters, and writing. ($39.99 value)
What Makes a Great Scene? (OnDemand Webinar): In this OnDemand webinar, Erik Bork will share what he’s come to understand about how to create a compelling and entertaining story from the “macro” level of concept, genre and structure, down to the all-important “micro” level of scene – that basic unit of storytelling of which all scripts are entirely composed – which determines the level and type of emotional impact the audience will experience. ($39.99 value)
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