The Secret to Creating Riveting Drama in any Genre

Summary

Whether your script is a wacko comedy or a bone-crunching thriller, it has to work dramatically. Trapping your protagonist between two equally painful choices - a Dilemma - amplifies your story's dramatic power. This uniquely effective tool has proven its value in raising a story's stakes, urgency, emotional resonance, tension, and conflict-all of which make any story more compelling. Jeff will demonstrate this in action by building a story from scratch on the spot.

Participants should know the movie Training Day with Denzel Washington.

Presented by

Jeff Kitchen has been training writers for over thirty years in the craft of the dramatist. He is the author of Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting. Past students have been nominated for multiple Emmys and Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Jeff runs a two-year training program for scriptwriters at http://script.kitchen

Jeff Kitchen's Website: http://script.kitchen

What others have to say...

-- Jim Stramler

Great class. Very helpful!

-- Patricia Veneman

-- Mary Duffin

I was able to apply Jeff's paradigm to my current script and wrote a couple of scenes during the class.

-- Shay Elliot

Thank you for providing such a great resource. Excellent presentation and fantastic material

-- Tolan Furusho