"Never assume that because a work is obscure, it must be art, or contrariwise, that if a work is popular, it cannot be art."
- ROBERT MCKEE
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McKee's IMAGERY IN FICTION Webinar Series
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Robert McKee begins his brand-new webinar series this week! Discover how to create images for the eye versus for the ear, the art of writing prose versus dialogue and settings, and the many ways to employ single, multiple and merged image systems in your work.
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"Art is a person’s private vision expressed in aesthetic forms."
- Chaim Potok
New York Times Bestselling Author
MY NAME IS ASHER LEV
What Makes a Story a Work of Art?
The source of all art is the human psyche’s primal need for the resolution of stress and discord through beauty and harmony. We search for a link to reality through our instinctive, sensory feel for the truth.
Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but well-told stories have the power to harmonize what you know with what you feel.
While no story is ever written without flashes of fortuitous inspiration, nothing in a work of art is there by accident. Ideas may come spontaneously, but we must weave them consciously and creatively into the whole.
Story is an instrument to create the simultaneous encounter of thought and feeling. Like music and dance, painting and sculpture, poetry and song, story is first, last, and always the experience of aesthetic emotion.
Learn how to elevate your story to a work of art in McKee’s upcoming Imagery in Fiction Webinar Series.
"The amount of information blew me away. Wish I had taken Robert’s classes much earlier in my writing process. The Character series could have been a college course in itself. WOW!"
- Cheryl Willis
(2021 Spring Webinar Program Attendee)
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Emotion in Art
Robert McKee teaches the principle of aesthetic emotion, and why it is so central to creating a moving experience for your audience.
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"Each lesson was extremely useful, packed with great insight and in-depth knowledge of the subject. I’m glad I was able to take these lessons from Mr. McKee at an early stage in my writing career."
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"Flawed and false storytelling is forced to substitute spectacle for substance, trickery for truth."
- ROBERT MCKEE
McKee's IMAGERY IN FICTION Webinar Series
Starts Next Week!
Two inner forces propel a story: the narrative imagination that weaves turning points forward and backward through time, and the poetic imagination that creates imagery that intensifies the entire telling, heightening its meaning, deepening its emotions. In his brand-new upcoming webinar series, McKee explores this critical second drive.
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"You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters."
- JOHN LASSETER
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
TOY STORY
Why Every Story Needs Poetry
Stories are propelled toward climax by two key forces, narrative imagination and poetic imagination.
Weak stories, desperate to hold audience attention, degenerate into multi-million-do||ar razzle-dazzle demo reels. In Hollywood, imagery becomes more and more extravagant, in Europe more and more decorative.
But images of the kind that send audiences out of disappointing films muttering "but it's beautifully photographed" or "the explosions were impressive" are not expressive.
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling.
When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. The novice is dazzled by the glare of spectacle and cannot see that lasting entertainment is found only in the charged human truths beneath the image.
Master storytellers understand we need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.
We need good stories, well-told, enriched through expressive use of poetic imagery.
Learn to merge your poetic and narrative imagination in Robert McKee’s Imagery in Fiction webinar series.
"I find these webinars helpful! I so appreciate Mr. Mckee’s help. And am thankful that he is offering this opportunity to study with him online. Honestly, I consider it a blessing."
- Gary Ajamie
(2020 & 2021 Webinar Program Attendee)
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Keeping Your Image System Intact
Robert McKee discusses what writers can do to see their image system fully realized in a completed film.
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BOOKS IN THE MCKEE COLLECTION
CHARACTER: The Art of Role and Cast Design for the Page, Stage, and Screen
The long-awaited third volume of Robert McKee’s trilogy on the art of fiction is now available to purchase from all major bookstores!
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"Whether a story’s content is beautiful or grotesque, spiritual or profane, epic or intimate, it requires full expression."
- ROBERT MCKEE
McKee's IMAGERY IN FICTION Webinar Series
Starts in 2 weeks!
Robert McKee concludes his fall program next month with three brand-new masterclasses on how to create images for the eye versus the ear, the art of writing prose versus dialogue and settings, and the many ways to employ single, multiple and merged image systems in your work.
Nov 4: Sources of Imagery
Nov 9: Follow-Up Q&A Session
Nov 11: Imagery and Media
Nov 16: Follow-Up Q&A Session
Nov 18: Compound Imagery
Nov 23: Follow-Up Q&A Session
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"I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image."
- RACHEL KUSHNER
Booker Prize-Nominated Novelist
THE MARS ROOM
The Expressive Power of Imagery in Fiction
When embedded in settings and dialogue, an image system, like a musical refrain, slips unnoticed past our consciousness, then descends into our subconscious where it expands a story’s significance and enriches its moods.
This motif or overall theme plays out in visual imagery, tropes of speech in dialogue, in sound effects, even music, as the skilled writer weaves the images within the scenes of their story.
A single image has limited impact.
To concentrate expressive power, imagery must recur, and yet at the same time, avoid repetitiousness. It must repeat but not be repetitious.
The solution is to first create an image system, a category of imagery that can appear and reappear persistently from beginning to end, but in a great variety of forms with equally great subtlety.
This level of story mastery only comes with a great deal of skill, taste, and above all, study.
Discover the unparalleled power of expressive imagery at Robert McKee’s brand-new webinar series this November.
"The more webinars that I take, the more I become aware of Mr. McKee's extensive knowledge of writing. They are packed with information, and showing me how much I have yet to learn. The online webinars are a wonderful learning opportunity."
- Ann Bannerman
(2020 & 2021 Webinar Program Attendee)
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