Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Becoming a better storyteller

McKee might be full of himself, but he also happens to be dead right on the money.

David

On Sep 28, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Mark wrote:

> Don't forget the grand daddy of all Hollywood story telling structure: Robert McKee.
>
> http://mckeestory.com/
>
> Never met anyone more full of himself, but his classes are legendary.
>
> Mark
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@...> wrote:
> >
> > > > Can't I just follow Hemingway on Facebook or Twitter
> > >
> > Sure. This (apocryphal) Hemingway story fits in a tweet:
> >
> > For sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.
> >
> >
> > Back on topic, one of the best books I've seen on storytelling is
> > Writing for Story by Jon Franklin. OK, it's about dramatic nonfiction
> > writing, but Franklin has won two Pulitzer prizes (for feature and
> > expository journalism) and has been a j-school prof for a long time.
> > He knows what he's talking about and knows how to talk about it.
> >
> > The book takes the old complication-resolution story structure and
> > applies it to nonfiction. Lots of emphasis on structure, pacing, and
> > stuff that applies as well to film/video as to text. Or so it seems to
> > me. An eminently practical book.
> >
> > Note that I haven't read it in many years, but I think upon re-
> > reading, my opinion would remain the same.
> >
> > Jim "wishes some films were six words long" Feeley
> >
>
>

David Dodson
davidadodson@sbcglobal.net

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