James Bonnet's Storymaking

WRITING AND SCREENWRITING SEMINAR
in LOS ANGELES

OCTOBER 23-24, 2010

WRITERS and FILMMAKERS
James Bonnet's Storymaking:
The Master Class

                  The Quintessential Screenwriting and Storymaking Seminar
             by the author of  Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide 
                                to Story for Writers and Filmmakers

Whether you are a professional or novice writer or filmmaker, this intensive story seminar will take you beyond Classical Story Structure, The Hero's Journey and Three Acts to a more complete understanding of the principles that you need to create your own successful stories and story films.

Whatever you hope to accomplish with your storymaking -- a meaningful self-expression,
a significant artistic success, make a lot of money, win Academy Awards, or have a career that rivals Steven Spielberg's -- you have to become a master of the craft. This new state-of-the-art story knowledge will give you that mastery and guide you to a more complete understanding of the fundamentals that drive the world's most powerful films and novels.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Screenwriters, Directors, Producers, Novelists, Playwrights and anyone else whose livelihood depends on knowing what makes a story great and successful.

THE TWO DAY SEMINAR
As we move through a step-by-step journey from the fascination to the final draft, we will take an in-depth look at all the basic concepts, important story structures and principles, including the Golden Paradigm - the story model that contains the hidden structures all great stories have in common; the essence of story - that without which there would be no story; the creative unconscious - the source of our creativity; and the creation of ideas that will be talked about, generate excitement and compel the right people to get involved.

OTHER IMPORTANT TOPICS COVERED WILL INCLUDE:

• The Storywheel
• The Metaphor, Genre and Narrative Structures That Make a Story Unique
• The High Concept Great Idea
• The Six Essential Creative Techniques
• The Nine Essential Archetypal Characters
• Creating the Subject, the Problem, the Threat and The Entity Being Transformed  
• Finding the Inciting Action and the Hook
• Finding the State of Misfortune and the Real Cause of the Problem
• Creating the Upside and the Downside of the Cycle
• The Hero and the Antihero Compared
• Creating the Other Positive and Negative Characters
• Finding the Marvelous and Terrible Elements
• Creating the Complications, Crisis, Climax and Resolution of the Dominant Plot
• Creating Memorable Scenes and Outstanding Dialogue
• Creating Excitement, Passion and Suspense

Plus a thorough analysis of many of today’s most powerful and successful stories and films.