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Lit Manager Conrad Sun offers Story Engine Webinar
Conrad Sun, who'll be accepting pitches via the
MovieBytes partnership with Roadmap Writers on Sunday, July 24th
, is offering a free recorded Story Engine webinar. Mr. Sun, manager from Meridian Artists and owner of www.filmescape.com, will be breaking down what a story engine is and how you can make sure your engine is golden. He will be going over story engines for Walking Dead, Friday Night Lights, Orange is the New Black, Back to the Future and Tootsie.
Register through the link below by Tuesday at 3 PM PDT to receive this free recording:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3650873760461610497
This 90-Min. Webinar Will Cover:
What exactly is a story engine?
- The key elements that comprise a story engine
- Why is it important?
- How to test the viability of your story engine?
- The difference between personal vs world stakes
- World Stakes need to be established first
- Examples of interesting world stakes
- What is a narrative paradox and why is it important?
- How to find the best narrative paradox
- Misconceptions and mistakes while creating the narrative paradox
- Telling vs selling
- Rely on your world stakes and your creative paradox
- Come back to your story engine
- Front load your pitch with your story engine. (Put the cart before the horse).
Updated: 07/17/2016
ScriptLinks
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ALTA CALIFORNIA
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RICH KID$
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As Wallenberg and Eichmann play chess, they confront the question of whether humans worship the God of Love, or the replacement God of Macht or Power.
HARBINGER
As seniors vanish and messages appear in mirrors, a skeptical detective is drawn into a parallel world where the forgotten are reborn—and learns she might just be the last warning before humanity is rewritten.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest shot in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
