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 10 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!

Connect Your Characters With Your Audience or Your Script Dies (OnDemand Webinar) In this OnDemand webinar, Tim Schildberger teaches the difference between an authentic character versus a series of traits and how important it is for you to connect emotionally with the people in your story. Tim also discusses the destructive power of unintended character information, gives tips on discovering the authenticity of every character, and more. ($49.99 value)

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)

How to Create Characters that Engage Your Audience (OnDemand Webinar) This OnDemand webinar teaches the specific tools and exercises these writers use to create fascinating, believable characters. The webinar also shares the writing processes professional writers use to develop their characters. Instructor Corey Mandell teaches the same tools and techniques he uses in his UCLA classes, private workshops and script coaching services. ($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)

Plot To Thrill: Creating a Story for an Audience That’s Already Seen Every Story (OnDemand Webinar) With 600 new series appearing every year, viewers have seen so many stories they can spot just about any plot twist coming. William Rabkin, the author of the best-selling Writing the Pilot books, has been creating and writing mysteries for 35 years; in this OnDemand webinar, he discusses how keep even the most jaded audiences in constant suspense. ($49.99 value)

Worldbuilding: Crafting Screenplays Readers Can Step Into (OnDemand Webinar) Writing a successful screenplay requires a complete understanding of the reality of the fictional world you are creating. From start to finish, film executives must be able to visualize how your characters interact with their settings. In this OnDemand webinar, Susan Kouguell offers specific tips for building the world of your screenplay. ($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)

Finding Your Voice - The VATTS Approach (Video) Trusting your inner voice can be a trying endeavor in the movie industry. The irony is that the best way to sell a script is to let go of your struggle to write a blockbuster and just simply tell your truth. In this how-to video, Anthony Grieco draws from personal examples to show why finding your voice is the key to getting the attention of agents, manager, actors and producers. ($29.99 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)

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