The Craft Behind Cinematic Storytelling

- Know the Secrets and Entertain your Audience

Created byKamal Sucharan Burri

Last updated 1/2018

English

What you'll learn

Printable course notes PDF
Lucid video examples for conceptual understanding
Learn all the techniques of Storytelling
Decode the blueprint in constructing a Story
Entirely downloadable for offline use
Web resources at the end of the course
Elements of storytelling simplified
Exercises for practice

Course content

6 sections • 48 lectures • 35m total length

Introduction1:55
Welcome to the course.

What is Story?1:49
Why do we need stories ?
Structure2:00
What is structure? And its importance in storytelling.
Setting2:42
Story setting and its elemens - Period, duration, location and level of conflict
Setting - PDF -11:00
Explanation of "PERIOD" with examples
Setting - PDF -21:00
Explanation of "DURATION" with examples
Setting - PDF -31:00
Explanation of "LOCATION" with examples
Setting - PDF - 41:00
Explanation of "LEVEL OF CONFLICT" with examples
Act3:30
What is "ACT" and why should we have a 3 act structure?
Act - PDF - 12:00
Explanation of "BRAVE HEART" in 3-act structure
Act - PDF - 22:00
Explanation of "A BEAUTIFUL MIND" in 3-act structure
Act - PDF - 32:00
Explanation of "BATMAN" in 3-act structure
Sequences3:48
What is "SEQUENCE" and it's explanation in conjunction with 3 act structure.
Sequences - PDF -12:00
8 sequence structure explanation
Sequences - PDF -21:00
Explanation of first sequence from "SHERLOCK HOLMES"
Scene / Event2:10
What is "SCENE" and its importance in the story?
Scene - PDF - 11:00
Scene explanation for easy understanding of the concept
Beat2:07
What is "BEAT" and its importance in "SCENE"
Beat - PDF - 11:00
Beat explanation in a scene for easy understanding of the concept
Story Flow Chart - pdf - 11:00
Pictorial representation of all the story elements in a flow chart for easy understanding
Story Flow Chart - pdf - 21:00
Pictorial representation of story goals in a flow chart for easy understanding

Characterisation2:19
How can we make our characters multi-dimensional?
Characterisation - PDF - Exercise 11:00
Ironman characterisation exercise
Characterisation - PDF - Exercise 21:00
Kung Fu Panda characterisation exercise
Characterisation - PDF - Exercise 31:00
Titanic characterisation exercise
Characterisation - PDF - Exercise 41:00
Troy characterisation exercise
Character1:46
What is the difference between characterisation and character?
Character - PDF - 11:00
Character of "Po" in Kung Fu Panda
Character - PDF - 21:00
Character of Achilles in Troy
Character - PDF - 31:00
Character of Tony Stark in Iron man
Character - PDF - 41:00
Character of "Rose" in Titanic
Character Revelation2:16
When does the true nature of a character is revealed?
Character Arc2:14
How the transformation in the character happens?
Character Arc - PDF - 11:00
Character Arc of Tony Stark in Ironman
Character Arc - PDF - 21:00
Character arc of Po in kung Fu Panda
Character Arc - PDF - 31:00
Character arc of Achilles in Troy
Character Arc - PDF - 41:00
Character Arc of Jack in titanic
Structure and Character2:40
What is the relation between structure and character?

Requirements

No Software expertise is required
Just a notepad and a pen to jot down points
Passionate zeal to tell stories

Description

Humans are wired for stories.

Throughout the ages storytelling has took many forms right from drawings on caves to statuses on Facebook.

Is there any craft behind telling an entertaining story? I would definitely say, yes.

Anyone can imagine, dream and write. But in order to streamline your ideas to tell a compelling story; understanding of the craft is must. It involves lot of craft elements like structure, setting, genre, scene building, character, characterization etc.

As Aristotle wisely said every story or character must have a problem, in order to solve his/her problem he/she needs to find some solution and solve it through action over the course of time. Our course exactly does that.

Enroll now to solve all of your story problems.

Who this course is for:

Film Students
Media/Mass Communication Students
Writing Aspirants
TV Production Students
Studio Interns
Bloggers - for writing effective blogs
Entrepreneurs - for reaching out emotionally to the public
Corporate Managers - for telling "BRAND" stories
Anyone who is in the business of Storytelling
This course is probably not for those who are looking for technical aspects of Cinematic Storytelling like operating the camera, learning editing software etc. That would be dealt in another course.

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Decoding The Story20 lectures • 35min

Genre6 lectures • 13min

Creating a Character17 lectures • 23min

Conclusion1 lecture • 2min

Web Resources3 lectures • 7min

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