Here are the latest details of webinars and courses:
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"Without
proper organization, a lot of the concepts could have been lost. But,
instead, they were amplified! From the timing, to graphics, to Q&A,
and to a sprinkle of personal touch through emails: it all ascended
McKee’s virtual classes into a very supportive and intimate experience.
Nothing short of profound. Please, have more of these!"
- Maria Kosyanenko
(Spring Webinar
Program Attendee)
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Science
suggests that feelings of love are biologically imposed on us in order
to ensure reproductive success. Love behavior functions to attract,
retain and reproduce with your mate. However, biology alone can never
account for the complex emotional needs, profound desires, and romantic
rituals of human beings.
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We create love
stories in order to explore, express and experience love from the safe
distance of art. Join us online this fall for three webinars on the
beautiful expression and delightful agony of the love story.
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McKee’s LOVE
STORY Webinar Series
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In this series
of three 90-minute lessons (+30-minutes of Q&A), and three
exclusive 2-hour follow-up Q&A sessions, Robert McKee teaches the
history and nature of love, the storytelling principles involved in
crafting a love story, and how you can mix and merge genres to create
something truly unique.
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Recordings
available until December 31, 2020.
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"Out of all the writing classes I've attended, every
professor and self-proclaimed 'master' I've learned from pales in
comparison to Mr. McKee. He is by far my favorite teacher I've ever
had. I’m very grateful for his teachings and all the hard work that
goes into his compelling lectures."
- Matt Isner
(Spring Webinar Program Attendee)
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McKee
Seminars | Two Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"Animals mate. Human beings love."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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McKee's LOVE STORY Webinar Series
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By popular
demand, McKee returns with his new Fall Webinar Program, featuring his Love
Story Webinar Series.
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In this series
of 3 webinars, each consisting of a 90-minute lesson and 30 minutes of
Q&A, McKee teaches the history and nature of love, the storytelling
principles involved in crafting a love story, and how you can mix and
merge genres to create something truly unique.
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Attendees also
have the opportunity to ask McKee any questions relating to the course
content with 3 dedicated follow-up Q&A sessions.
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Watch Live or
On Demand
As a courtesy to our students around the globe, we're
allowing access to the recordings of each event for a limited time.
If you can't join us live, catch up on every lesson at your
convenience.
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The Evolution of the Love Story
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The most
important question we ask when writing a Love Story is: “What’s
to stop their love?” Without this conflict, where’s the story?
Two lovers meet, fall in love, marry, raise a family, till death do
them part…what could be more boring than that?
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Over thousands
of years, Greek dramatists answered this question with “the
parents of the girl.” Her parents find the young man unsuitable
and become the convention known as Blocking Characters.
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But the 21st
Century has been the Age of Romance like no other.
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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.
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So as the
“parents-of-the-girl” convention faded, resourceful writers unearthed a
new and amazing array of forces that oppose love…
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Learn how the
genre adapted and evolved in McKee's LOVE STORY Webinar Series
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"These
webinars are inspiring me to make more effort to put pen to paper (or
fingers to keyboard!) and pursue my ambitions."
- Sharon
Grey
(Spring Webinar
Program Attendee)
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McKee
discusses the nature and function of love subplots in Crime Stories and
Thrillers, with reference to SEVEN.
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A Message From Our Friends at Scriptapalooza
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SCRIPTAPALOOZA
TV
Our intention is to help open doors for the aspiring
television writer.
There are four
categories you can submit to, which include one hour existing shows, ½
hour existing sitcom, original pilots, and reality shows.
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WE DISCOVER / WE DEVELOP / WE PROMOTE TV WRITERS
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- 27 writers have
optioned their work
- 61 writers have been
hired to write
- 18 writers have films
in production or release
- 102 writers have gotten
agent or manager
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Accepting dramas, sitcoms, pilots, and reality shows.
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McKee
Seminars | Two Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"While no film, novel or play was ever written
without flashes of fortuitous inspiration, a story is not an
accident."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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McKee's STORY CRAFT Webinar Series
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Robert McKee
is back by popular demand this fall with his brand new webinar series
on the craft of storytelling.
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In this series
of 3 webinars, each consisting of a 90-minute lesson and 30 minutes of
Q&A, McKee delivers the crucial insight you need to understand your
work in the context of the story universe, to hook and hold audience
interest and create a work of art.
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Attendees also
have the opportunity to ask McKee any questions relating to the course
content with 3 dedicated follow-up Q&A sessions.
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Watch Live or
On Demand
As a courtesy to our students around the globe, we're
allowing access to the recordings of each event for a limited time.
If you can't join us live, catch up on every lesson at your
convenience.
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"It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to
structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so
can the audience."
- DAVID MAMET
Writer
GLENGARRY GLEN
ROSS / THE VERDICT
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Your Place in the Story Universe
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In some
literary circles “plot” has become a dirty word, tarred with a
connotation of hack commercialism. However, plot is an accurate term
that names the internally consistent interrelated pattern of events
that move through time to shape and design a story.
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Plot doesn’t
mean ham-handed twists and turns, or high-pressure suspense and
shocking surprise. Story events must be selected and their patterning
displayed through time. In this sense of composition or design, all
stories are plotted.
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The variations of story design are innumerable, but not
without limits.
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The far
corners of the art create a triangle of formal possibilities that maps
the universe of stories. 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.
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Discover the
Universe of Story in Robert McKee's Upcoming STORY CRAFT Webinar Series
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"Thank
you very much for all of your work! I am thoroughly enjoying these
sessions and have learned so much beyond my collegiate studies. Robert
has inspired, encouraged, and empowered me with his wonderful
teaching."
- Becky
Bulebush
(Spring Webinar
Program Attendee)
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Has There Been a
Rise in Formulaic Storytelling?
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McKee
discusses the difficulties of producing truly excellent writing and the
history of this common problem.
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McKee
Seminars | Two Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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MCKEE ALUMNI AT THE BAFTA TV AWARDS
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With the 2020
British Academy Television Awards broadcast last week, it’s time to
congratulate the 5 McKee alumni that worked on these three winners:
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CHERNOBYL
Best
Mini-Series
Simon Smith
Editor
Alan
Williams
"KGB Chairman Charkov"
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THE LEFT
BEHIND
Best
Single Drama
Alan Harris
Writer
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WHEN THEY
SEE US
Best
International
Ava DuVernay
Writer / Director / Executive Producer
John
Leguizamo
"Raymond Santana Sr."
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Join this growing collective of industry masters and
learn the art of writing for television with Robert McKee.
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION
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"The
webinars have been a wonderful opportunity for me to learn and relearn
the craft of excellent writing. I look forward to the next 10 weeks of
lectures and Q&A."
- Lyn Dygo
(Spring Webinar
Program Attendee)
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Long-form
storytelling is already the dominant art form of the century. Thanks to
magnificent series such as BREAKING BAD, THE WIRE and VIKINGS, writing
for the small screen has brought about a new understanding of story and
character. Shows unfurling over 70+ hours now reveal complexities and
quality the likes of which we’ve never seen.
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McKee’s TV
Webinar Series
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In this series
of three 90-minute lessons (+30-minutes of Q&A), and three
exclusive 2-hour follow-up Q&A sessions, Robert McKee teaches the
evolution and strengths of long-form storytelling, how to design your
series across multiple seasons, and the depths you can reach in
character and story complexity.
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Recordings
available until January 31st, 2021.
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"McKee is as insightful and intelligent as always,
and this webinar series is so professionally presented. A true pleasure
to attend. Thanks!"
- Sue Scott
(Spring Webinar Program Attendee)
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McKee
Seminars | Two Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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"Craft is the sum total of all means used to draw the
audience into deep involvement, and reward it with a moving and
meaningful experience."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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Announcing Robert McKee’s Fall Webinar Program
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Following the
success of his spring and summer webinar series, McKee returns this
fall with a brand new webinar program!
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STORY CRAFT
Webinar Series
September 10 - 29
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LOVE STORY
Webinar Series
October 8 - 27
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TELEVISION
Webinar Series
November 5 - 24
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Choose Your Enrollment Options
The Fall Program features 9 webinars, each consisting of
90-minute lessons plus a 30-minute Q&A period, covering everything
from the style and substance of story, to the art of love stories and
writing for television. You decide which series, or combination of
series you attend. Bundle discounts are
available.
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Extra Dedicated Q&A Sessions
Every webinar comes with a 2-hour follow-up Q&A session
in which you can ask McKee any questions you have relating to the
lecture content. This gives you the opportunity to clarify your
understanding of the lessons and reinforce your learning.
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Can’t Attend Live?
As a courtesy to our students around the globe, we're
allowing limited access to the recordings of each event. If you can't
join us live, catch up on every lesson at your convenience.
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"Good writing is essentially rewriting."
- ROALD DAHL
Author
MATILDA / THE BFG
/ FANTASTIC MR. FOX
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The Writer’s Pursuit of Perfection
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Without craft,
all a writer can do is snatch the first idea off the top of her head,
then sit helpless in front of her own work, unable to answer the
dreaded question: Is it good?
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The conscious
mind, fixated on this terrible question, blocks the subconscious. The
result? At best, writer’s block. At worst, plagiarism.
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Craft means entering your imagined world and writing as
your characters speak and act, but then stepping back and analyzing the
result. Instinctively making choices, but re-imagining objectively.
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The writer
redrafts inspiration again and again, making it look as if an
instinctive spontaneity created the story, yet knowing how much effort
went into making it look natural and effortless.
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The quality of
your rewriting, the possibility of perfection, depends on a command of
the craft that guides you to correct imperfection. An artist is never
at the mercy of the whims of impulse, she willfully exercises her skill
to create harmonies of instinct and idea.
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And to do
that, you must master your craft.
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Learn the Art
of Storytelling
with Robert McKee this Fall.
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"This
whole program is the best writer training I have ever
experienced!"
- Billie
Tomlinson
(Spring Webinar
Program Attendee)
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Why is Study
Essential to a Writer?
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Robert McKee
discusses the romanticism of creativity and teaches how destructive and
limiting it can be to a writer’s education.
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( LOS ANGELES )
STORY Oct. 15-17
LOVE STORY Oct. 18
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( NEW YORK )
STORY Oct. 29-31
TV DAY Nov. 1
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( LONDON )
STORY Nov. 19-21
COMEDY Nov. 22
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McKee
Seminars | Two Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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