Critical Tools to Create an Emotional Connection with Your Audience

Writing a script that the reader and ultimately audience feels an emotional connection to is what creates memorable and award-winning TV and films. This carefully curated bundle of 11 digital products will give you the tools to engage with audiences, raise the emotional stakes of your plot, create memorable, relatable characters, set up emotional conflict, how to write from personal experience and pain, and much, much more. If you want your writing to emotionally resonate for both you and the audience, this is the bundle for you!

Create An Emotional Connection Through Characters and Story (OnDemand Webinar) This OnDemand webinar will deconstruct the ways great screenwriters are able to emotionally connect an audience to their characters and their story lines. You will learn how to raise the emotional stakes of your plot and learn the practical tools to instantly get the audience to root for your protagonist and deepen the character relationships in your story. ($39.99 value)

  

Creating Compelling Emotional Conflict (OnDemand Webinar) Many screenwriters focus on the rising conflict of the plot while foregoing the emotional stakes of their characters. Building the emotional conflicts of central characters is what moves an audience and creates films that are truly memorable. In this OnDemand webinar, you will learn practical tools to make an audience connect with your characters on a deep, primal level. ($39.99 value) 

 

Writing Strong Crisis and Climax Scenes: The Two Keys to Screenplays That Connect with Audiences (and Hollywood) (OnDemand Webinar) Writers often confuse the crisis and climax scenes in their story. That confusion translates to the reader as a dramatic action pacing problem and inconsistent character growth. In this OnDemand Webinar, Martha Alderson shows you how writers can use emotion to generate energy at the crisis differently than what is needed at the climax. ($39.99 value)

 

Constructing Powerful Story in TV & Film (OnDemand Webinar) In this OnDemand webinar, Jen Grisanti will share her strategy about how you can write act breaks that will make your story memorable, and help you to tell it in the strongest way possible, so that you increase your chances of selling. It all comes down to your understanding of how to build your script. Follow her tips and advice, and it could lead you to get hired! ($39.99 value)

 

Mastering the Essential Story Emotions: How to Seduce the Reader (OnDemand Webinar) Join award-winning UCLA instructor Karl Iglesias in this OnDemand webinar as he explores the psychology of the reader, and demystifies once and for all what it means to tell a story well. You’ll be challenged to view your script not as a 110-page blueprint for a film or TV show, but as the promise of an intense and satisfying emotional experience. ($39.99 value)

Writing Great Scenes (OnDemand Webinar) Most amateur scenes tend to fall flat and disengage the reader, who ultimately tosses the script in the recycling bin. Writing great scenes requires know-how and practice. Learn what makes a great scene, how to recognize when a scene doesn’t work and why, and how to apply practical techniques as you craft a compelling script. ($39.99 value) 

 

 

Writing the Character-Driven Screenplay: Alexander Payne Style (OnDemand Webinar) As we work on a script project, we may know what the movie is about, but not know all we need to about our characters. If we ignore who the story is happening to, the emotional logic of the script will suffer. This OnDemand webinar discusses the constant question we face as screenwriters: How do we build our characters so that their relationship to the story is inevitable? ($39.99 value)

 

 

The Power of the Transformational Arc: Making Stories More Emotional, Meaningful and Marketable (OnDemand Webinar) In this OnDemand webinar, author Dara Marks teaches writers how to create a natural story structure that reflects the authentic nature of the human experience. Her innovative method for structuring story is designed to keep writers focused on the heart and soul of their work, so that plot, character, and theme create a unified whole. ($39.99 value)

 

 

Key Emotions of Storytelling (Video) In this how-to video, Karl Iglesias will walk through a collection of dramatic techniques that will help you evoke key emotions from your viewers: curiosity, anticipation, and suspense, all of which create tension for the audience. Drawing from examples in award-winning films from varying genres, you'll learn specific techniques to write compelling stories that keep your audience engaged from start to finish. ($19.99 value)

 

 

 

The End: How to Write an Amazing Finish to Your Screenplay (OnDemand Webinar) Script readers often mention the ending first when writing their coverage. It's the last thing they read and it's what they think about when writing a "recommend" or "pass" when reporting to their boss. In this OnDemand webinar, you'll learn the crucial structural and emotional elements that your screenplay finale MUST include to propel your story to a gripping conclusion. ($39.99 value)

 

 

 

Writing in Your Personal Voice (OnDemand Webinar) A script’s “fidelity to itself” -- its ability to spin clever and integrated surprises from its setup -- isn’t sufficient to bend the “voice of the script” toward your personal voice. Your personal voice requires more control over your premise, its setup, and how you tell the story. This seminar delivers concrete tools and principles to use to develop your personal voice as a storyteller. ($39.99 value)

 

 

 

The Audience's Connection to a Screenplay: Engaging through Conflict (OnDemand Webinar) Screenwriting is a rigorous process, and for a story to work in this medium the audience must connect to the hero – you must make the audience care! Discover why so many scripts fail at the get go, how good characterization is based more on weakness and need than personality traits, and how both internal and external conflict is used to move the story forward and bring the hero to transformation. ($39.99 value)

 

This offer ends May 31, 2023!

 

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