John Truby's class has been the most talked about screenwriting class in London over the past ten years. Learn how to improve your writing and create a story using the freshest ideas on structure and characterisation. Learn to produce quality stories that will enable novelists and screenwriters to sell their work.

Tutor: John Truby Venue: TBA

Date: TBC Duration: 2 day weekend

Time: 9:30am - 6:00pm Price: £299.94 inc VAT

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If you think you know structure from what you've done in the past, think again. Old structure taught in old structure classes doesn't work. If you've read the books, taken the courses and did everything they said, why didn't it work? Because, what you were taught was wrong. Nobody buys old style, tired and obvious scripts.

Truby's 22-Step Story Structure paradigm is the most modern, exciting approach to storytelling to be developed this generation. His approach is flexible and dynamic, and enhances stories that have been written for the 21st century. His tools for writing are considered in America to be the most advanced and the easiest to understand. No screenwriting instructor works with more established writers.

John Truby's 22-Step Story Structure creates the new scripts that are fast-paced, powerful and more exciting than three-act scripts. Top professionals use fundamentally different tools than amateur writers. Yet most books and courses on screenwriting teach a one-size-fits-all approach, useful only to beginners. Isn't it time you stepped up to the professional ranks? This course will teach you literally hundreds of expert tools and techniques that allow you to compete with the best.

This flagship class has been taken by over 20,000 students worldwide, and wins awards year after year as the best screenwriting course in America. Don't miss this rare opportunity to master your craft.

Day One: Creating A Dynamic Structure

Using John's revolutionary 22-step structure, create a dynamic structure for your story and learn how to translate it to the screen.

• How to find the perfect structure
• Creating the single driving force
• The 4 requirements of a good hero
• The 3 character traits to avoid
• Desire and motive
• The 5 major character changes
• The 4 keys to the perfect opponent
• Tricks of Hollywood's most popular genres
• Creating an individual writing style

Day Two: Creating A Dynamic Story

Learn the methods and techniques used by professionals to layer plot, dialogue, subplot and setting to create a dynamic story.

• The 22 building blocks of every great script
• Uncovering the myth of 3-act story structure
• Pacing by character growth, not page number
• Using the subplot
• How to write 3-track dialogue
• Secrets of building the scene
• Dialogue that increases the conflict
• How to write a great feature
• Writing using your own experience
• The business of screenwriting

This course has been attended by novelists, librettists, poets, lyricists, directors, producers actors, and yes  - screenwriters.

John Truby is a writer/director whose feature, ALL-AMERICAN BOY, won Best Dramatic Film (Gold Special Jury Award) at the Houston International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Picture at the Hollywood Film Festival. It also screened at Raindance Film Festival.

He has taught his 22-Step Great Screenwriting and Genre classes to over 20,000 students worldwide. He has also worked as a story consultant and script doctor for Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, FOX, HBO, Alliance Atlantis, and Cannell Studios. In Europe, Mr. Truby has consulted for the BBC, RAI, LUX, TV4 and MTV Sweden. His students include the writer/director/or producer for the following films:

• Shrek
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• The Mask of Zorro
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• Outbreak
• Scream
• Sleepless in Seattle
• Back to School
• The Addams Family
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Beetlejuice
• Valley Girl
• The Negotiator
• Star Wars

John's  first book, the eagerly awaited ANATOMY OF STORY was published in November 2007

Podcast with John Truby

"This guy is the best script doctor in the movie industry, and this program makes you tell a good story whether you want to or not. A winner. If you even toy with the idea of storytelling, you must have this product. Highly recommended." 

John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine 

"I'm not exaggerating: Truby's Blockbuster revolutionized how I work. It's the simplest way I've ever found to build structure, character and theme. If you use a computer to write screenplays, you'll want Blockbuster." 
Laurence Dworet, screenwriter Outbreak 

"Blockbuster is an ingenious and multilevel guide through the maze of story organization... way ahead of any other writing tool I know of." 
Jeff Arch, screenwriter Sleepless in Seattle

"I think of all of them Truby's the best. I actually use Blockbuster, because I think he's really good. For my taste, his stuff cuts the deepest, and allows you to develop the most detailed structure and outline." 
Larry Wilson, screenwriter Beetlejuice, The Addams Family 

"Blockbuster is all that it is advertised to be, a virtual screenwriting school, and a great one at that." 
Skip Press, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting 

"As a result of Blockbuster, I won a Gold Award at the Charleston Film Festival, and a Bronze Award at the Houston Film Festival in the Comedy category." 

Mike Ellis, screenwriter 

"My pleasure to let you know an agent has picked up three of my screenplays. All were written by the guidelines of Blockbuster." 
James Russell, screenwriter 

"Truby's Blockbuster provides a structure both to elicit and keep track of the multitude of ideas and details that emerge in transforming the first vague musings into the finished project." 
L. R. Shannon, New York Times  

"Among the legions of screenplay guru devotees, few would deny that John Truby is the most cutting edge of the lot. For success, Truby and his software is a match made in screenwriting heaven... No, Blockbuster will not solve all of writing's perennial ills, but it does bring the cure several giant steps closer." 
Wade Major, Entertainment Today  

Free Article: Moral Storytelling
Free Article: Why 3 Act Will Kill Your Writing

Weeknights: Understanding Genre
John Truby's detailed Genre class (presented on a Monday/Tuesday 7/8 April 6:30 - 10pm)

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