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Writing the Masterpiece DVD Set (3 DVDs)

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RICHARD KREVOLIN has taught at UCLA and USC Film Schools and is the author of the books Screenwriting From The Soul, Pilot Your Life, and How To Adapt Anything Into A Screenplay. Richard has several screenplays under option and in development. He has been a finalist for the Chesterfield Screenwriting Contest, the Klasky-Csupo Screenwriting Contest, and the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Award. In addition, he has consulted and conducts writers’ workshops and seminars throughout the world. He is a STAR Speaker of the Screenwriting Expo.

JEFF KITCHEN is a working writer and has taught screenwriting professionally since 1989. He was classically trained as a playwright, worked as a dramaturg in New York theatre, and taught playwriting Off Broadway. Jeff has taught advanced structural technique to development executives from all the major Hollywood studios and is a sought-after script doctor. He is the author of Writing a Great Movie: Four Advanced Tools for the Dramatist, and Script Analysis: The Godfather, Tootsie and Blade Runner. Jeff regularly speaks at large screenwriting conventions and is billed as one of the top screenwriting teachers in the world.

PAUL JOSEPH GULINO taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California for five years, and since 1998 has served as head of the screenwriting program at Chapman University in Orange, California. His credits include two produced screenplays in addition to numerous commissioned scripts and script consultations, and his plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. His book, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach was published last year and has already been adopted as a textbook at several leading film schools nationwide. He studied screenwriting with Milos Forman, Samson Raphaelson, and Frank Daniel at Columbia University. He was a STAR Speaker of Screenwriting Expo 3.

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Writing the Masterpiece DVD Set

(3 DVD Set)

"Screenwriting from the Soul is a dialogue about the art and craft of film. Savor the passion of a master teacher and run to your computer. Krevolin is full of evocative, inspiring, practical, literate, sound advice."

—John Furia, Jr., Former President & Chairman of the Writer's Guild of America, West and Former Head of the Writing Program, USC School Of Cinema/TV

“Jeff Kitchen is a master teacher who truly understands the art and technique of the screenplay. His course is worth its weight in gold.”

—Chris Brancato, writer/producer of Hoodlum, North Shore

“A succinct introduction not only to sequences, but also the theory that underlies all dramatic storytelling.”

—Andrew W. Marlowe, screenwriter of Air Force One, End of Days, and Hollow Man

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Dilemma, Crisis, Theme, Payoff, and Sequence. Screenwriting Expo’s Writing the Masterpiece is a 3-DVD course on taking your screenwriting to the next level, and could be the difference between a consider and a sale. For experienced screenwriters only.

DVD 1: Richard Krevolin’s Screenwriting From the Soul (Trailer)

Why do some stories touch you and others don’t? Richard Krevolin explores the spiritual, physiological, and psychological basis for good storytelling that transcends time, place, and culture. This DVD also addresses how you can apply these rules to make your stories resonate deeply with all audiences.

How to tell a power story.
How to avoid the storytelling No-no’s.
How to incorporate myths to add resonance to your scripts.
How to use Prof. K’s golden rules of story.
How to create three-dimensional characters.
What is the “Hostess with the Mostess Effect.”
How to infuse your work with soul and also maintain your integrity as a working Hollywood screenwriter.

DVD 2: Jeff Kitchen’s Classic Structural Technique (Trailer)

Use the power of Dilemma, Crisis, Decision & Action, and Resolution to create gripping dramatic action and dynamically expand the power of your plot. Put your protagonist in a truly tough spot—a Dilemma of magnitude—two equally painful choices, then hyper-compress that at the point of Crisis. Decision & Action in the face of Crisis reveals the true character of the protagonist. The way in which the protagonist resolves the dilemma expresses the Theme of the piece.

Go to the heart of your plot and create gripping dramatic action.
Be able to consistently make any script work.

DVD 3: Paul Gulino’s Sequences: The Hidden Structure of Successful Screenplays (Trailer)

The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience emotional involvement from page one through page 120. This seminar explores an often-overlooked tool that can help: a screenplay can be built of sequences of about fifteen pages each. By focusing on solving the dramatic aspects of each sequence, a writer can more easily conquer the script as a whole. DVD includes:

Historical background of sequences.
Introduction of the Four Big Tools that storytellers use to maintain audience attention.
Graphics demonstrating the “nested structure” of successful screenplays.
A sequence analysis of two recent, successful motion pictures.


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