VINCENT ROBERT’S
ScriptSystem™
INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING SEMINAR
APRIL 24 & APRIL 25
9:30 am to 5:30 pm each day
at the 2004 Avignon/New York Film Festival (April 20-25)
Fees = $375 per participant (includes full VIP Badge to Festival)
You may reserve your place and pay your seminar fees below OR on our VIP Badge Application.
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ScriptSystem empowers you to make the structure serve your story – not the other way around.
The course focuses on the building blocks of storytelling, including character, goals,
OBSTACLES, conflict, SCENE REALIZATION and dialogue.
Award-winning filmmaker VINCENT ROBERT has worked extensively as a script doctor and a screenwriter.
He teaches screenwriting and directing at USC’s famed School of Cinema-Television.
Graduates from his classes and workshops include many established writers, directors and producers.
Mr. Robert has written for Universal Studios, The Sci-Fi Channel, Nu Image, and Disney Television,
as well as for producers such as Ivan Reitman and Lowell Blank (“Holes”), "A Walk in the Park,"
which he produced, played over 300 times on the Showtime Network.
He has recently produced the feature comedy "Halfway Decent," starring Ernie Hudson.
COMPLETE BIO OF VINCENT ROBERT
Overview of Two-Day Intensive Seminar:
Countless scriptwriting workshops focus on structure, sometimes making it very arcane
in an attempt to seem relevant (or to force you to take the workshop again!).
But structure doesn’t need to be complicated – in fact it should be very simple,
because stories reflect life and follow its natural progression.
The most effective type of structure is the one that grows out of the main character and his/her quest.
It operates from the inside out rather than being a strict recipe the story must adhere to.
But the overriding principle of ScriptSystem is that the need to communicate emotions
and develop memorable characters dictates everything else, including plot.
This is because, fundamentally, the reason we tell stories is to heal ourselves.
Ultimately, the films that affect us the most are the ones where the central character’s transformation resonates within us.
If these are the films you want to write, this is the workshop for you.
Lesson Plan:
Day 1:
Introduction
Theme & change
Writing from personal emotional experience
Main characters: Protagonist, Modifier, Opponent.
Goals, conflict, obstacles
The organic structure
Transforming reality into a story: the newspaper exercise.
Day 2:
Character creation and development
Entrance exercise: creating a need to see
Action and correlative: externalizing the inner life
Sequence and scene structure
Dialogue
Jargon exercise
Visualization
Empty house exercise
Transition exercise
Script format and style
Conclusion
In order to reserve your place in Robert Vincent's Intensive Screenwriting Seminar all day, April 24 & April 25,
send us an e-mail at payavignonfest@aol.com with your contact information,
then pay your $375 seminar fee by sending your check to:
Avignon/New York Film Festival
145 Ave. of the Americas, 7th flr
New York, NY 10013
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