“I’ve realized that the underlying pattern of these plots – the ways in which an audience demands certain things – has an extraordinary uniformity.” -- John Yorke

So you have an idea for a movie. Great! The first thing we need is an idea that excites you, that makes you want to sit down and right. But how do we take that idea and give it a shape? How do we turn that idea into a viable movie? 

This course is all about giving shape to our stories. We will start with a very basic story game and draw the principles you need to find and define a satisfying beginning, middle, and end. We will apply these principles directly to short film and to feature length scripts. You will learn the Five Sentence Story Game, Five Part Story for Shorts, and Five Part Story for Features. Along the way we will also explore the Biblical principles behind this structure, we will take a side journey into the Power of Three, widen our scope to see structure from The Audience POV, and watch a feature length project be built from a vague idea through every step to fully developed story. 

• Learn the basic structure for stories that is hard-wired into our brains

• Be able to apply and analyze the structure of existing films

• Create short films that linger in the minds of the viewers

• Explore the techniques Jesus used in creating stories that stick

• Find ways to build an idea into a satisfying feature length structure

• Full of examples and breakdowns to reinforce the principles

  
  

Take a dive into this course – then get ready to let your ideas grow into stories!