Robert McKee
Robert McKee, a Fulbright Scholar, is the most sought-after screenwriting lecturer around the globe. He has dedicated the last 40 years to educating and mentoring screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, poets, documentary makers, producers, and directors internationally. Those who have learned from McKee have called him “the Aristotle of our time” because of his insight into the substance, structure, style, and principles of the grand art of story.
Robert McKee
Class is back in session! Robert McKee returns online this October to bring you the legendary STORY Seminar: youtube.mckeestory.com/story
This virtual version of McKee's 30-hour masterclass consists of 15 live lessons delivered over the course of 5 weeks. Each session concludes with a Q&A period during which you can ask Robert questions about the lecture content or the writing craft more generally.
McKee's STORY Webinar Series offers you an unparalleled education in the substance, structure and style of storytelling. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from Hollywood's most sought-after screenwriting instructor, now in the comfort of your own home!
Learn more: youtube.mckeestory.com/story
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Robert McKee
@RobertMcKeeSTORY's 2020 Fall Webinar Program concludes with the TV Webinar Series!
youtube.mckeestory.com/register
If you missed the STORY CRAFT and LOVE STORY series, you can still enroll today and watch them On Demand.
November's TV Webinar Series includes:
----- The Age of Long-Form Television -----
Long-form storytelling has already established itself as a dominant art form. Thanks to magnificent series such as BREAKING BAD, THE WIRE and GAME OF THRONES, writing for the screen has brought about a new understanding of story. Shows unfurling over 70+ hours now reveal complexities of character and world-building the likes of which we’ve never seen. In Part 1 of the series, McKee dissects the history of long-form writing, and teaches the endless variety and strengths of the medium.
----- Designing Your Story for Television -----
Holding the intellectual and emotional interest of your audience is hard enough in a two-hour feature film. Over a multi-season television series this task is next to impossible, unless you give your audience compelling reasons to stay involved. If you botch your series design, they’ll be lost after episode one. But if your show works, they’ll remain rapt week after week, season after season. In Part 2 of the series, McKee teaches writers how to optimize the shape of their story for a television audience.
----- Maximizing Your TV Series -----
Long-form creatives are building the story cathedrals of the 21st Century. This renaissance of storytelling for television and streaming platforms has redefined what’s possible. With the potential to tell a story over dozens of hours, skilled writers have used this advantage to deliver a new breed of complex protagonists, and through their stories have revealed previously inaccessible depths of humanity. In Part 3 of the series, McKee delivers a masterclass on how to reach the complexity of character and story design only television can deliver.
----- Recordings Available -----
If you can't attend the live sessions due to scheduling conflicts, or if you're late to the party and want to join us after we're already underway, that's no problem! You can catch up on every lesson at your convenience. As a courtesy to our students around the globe, we're allowing access to the recordings of each event for a limited time.
----- Learn More -----
Visit our website for more information about Robert McKee's 2020 Fall Webinar Program: youtube.mckeestory.com/register
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Robert McKee
McKee's 2020 Fall Webinar Program continues with the LOVE STORY Webinar Series!
youtube.mckeestory.com/register
If you missed September's STORY CRAFT series, you can still enroll and watch it On Demand.
October's LOVE STORY Webinar Series includes:
----- The Nature of Love -----
Today, the idea of romantic love dominates Western culture. Thanks to technological advancement and shifts in societal attitudes, young lovers have become liberated from parental control. With rises in free love and divorce, parents themselves have turned romantic love into a lifelong pursuit. The 21st Century has been the Age of Romance like no other. In Part 1 of the series, McKee teaches the history and evolution of love in Western cultures.
----- The Six Subgenres of Love -----
Every story flows from a tradition of core events, characters, and values delineated by the genre in which it was written. Whether you’re writing a passionate drama or a sex farce, your first task is to identify the subgenre of love stories that will inspire your creativity. The second is to master its possibilities. In Part 2 of the series, McKee explores the key cast of love stories, the different subgenres, and the countless ways love can be combined with other genres to create an original telling.
----- The Ten Conventions of Love -----
Each of us owes an enormous debt to the great story forms. You must not only respect but master your genre and its conventions. If we botch genre by omitting or misusing conventions, the audience knows instantly and badmouths our work. As a writer, the demands of genre expectations should stir the imagination. They do not inhibit creativity, they inspire it. The challenge is to keep convention but avoid cliché. In Part 3 of the series, McKee delivers a masterclass on the codes and conventions of this timeless genre.
----- Recordings Available -----
If you can't attend the live sessions due to scheduling conflicts, or if you're late to the party and want to join us after we're already underway, that's no problem! You can catch up on every lesson at your convenience. As a courtesy to our students around the globe, we're allowing access to the recordings of each event for a limited time.
----- Learn More -----
Visit our website for more information about Robert McKee's 2020 Fall Webinar Program: youtube.mckeestory.com/register
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McKee's 2020 Fall Webinar Program starts today! You still have time to enroll: youtube.mckeestory.com/register
We're kicking things off with the STORY CRAFT Webinar Series:
----- The Story Universe -----
Although the variations of story design are innumerable, they are not without limits. The far corners of the art create a triangle of formal possibilities that maps the universe of stories. Within this triangle is the totality of writers' cosmologies. To understand your place in the universe, you must study the coordinates of this map, and let them guide you to that point you share with other writers of a similar vision.
----- Story and the Reader / Audience -----
Marketing may entice an audience into the theater, but once the ritual begins, it needs compelling reasons to stay involved. A story must capture interest, hold it unswervingly through time, then reward it at climax.
----- Story as Art -----
Every word you commit to the page has the potential to resonate with meaningful expressivity. Misused, it can leave audiences underwhelmed or worse, bored. But the master storyteller wields this power deftly and expertly, lifting their tale to its full potential, to become a work of art.
----- Recordings Available -----
If you can't attend the live sessions due to scheduling conflicts, or if you're late to the party and want to join us after we're already underway, that's no problem! You can catch up on every lesson at your convenience. As a courtesy to our students around the globe, we're allowing access to the recordings of each event for a limited time.
----- Learn More -----
Visit our website for more information about Robert McKee's 2020 Fall Webinar Program: youtube.mckeestory.com/register
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Robert McKee
Looking to learn from @RobertMcKeeSTORY in person? Join us at McKee's NYC Genre Festival for one or more days and master the possibilities of your genre.
Every story, no matter who creates it, flows from a tradition of core events, core characters, and core values with roots running through human time. The writer’s first task is to identify the genre, or combination of genres that will inspire his or her creativity. The second task is to master its possibilities. The third task is to satisfy the audience’s expectations while you take them into unanticipated pleasures.
Learn more about McKee's Genre Days : youtube.mckeestory.com/genre
2019 NYC Genre Festival Registration: youtube.mckeestory.com/ny-genre
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