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STORYTELLING
21st Century
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21st Century The Embarrassing Secret Horace Engdahl , the permanent - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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STORYTELLING in the 21st Century The Embarrassing Secret Horace Engdahl , the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told a journalist last week that the American novel is ``too isolated, too insular.'' American writers, he said, ``don't
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The Embarrassing Secret
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Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told a journalist last week that the American novel is ``too isolated, too insular.'' American writers, he said, ``don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature.'' It appears the the Nobel Prize may be lost to the American storyteller.
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“Indies” -- Independent Distributors:
Dimension Focus Features Fox Searchlight IFC Genius Gold Circle Films Lionsgate Films Miramax Newmarket Picturehouse Paramount Vantage THINK Film Sidney Kimmel Sony Classics Warner Independent The Weinstein Co.
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The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Camus
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The Four Quadrant Audience
< 7 years
Boys
8 - 10 years
Boys
11 - 13 years
Boys
14 - 17 years
Men
18 - 24 years
Men
25 - 35 years
Men
36 + years
Men
Girls Girls Women Women Women Women Women
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The Idea is King.
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Content is King.
Summer Redstone, CEO Viacom
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Pixar Key Audience Quadrants
< 7 years
Boys
8 - 10 years
Boys
11 - 13 years
Boys
14 - 17 years
Men
18 - 24 years
Men
25 - 35 years
Men
36 + years
Men
Girls Girls Women Women Women Women Women
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Once-a-Year Audience
< 7 years
Boys
8 - 10 years
Boys
11 - 13 years
Boys
14 - 17 years
Men
18 - 24 years
Men
25 - 35 years
Men
36 + years
Men
Girls Girls Girls Women Women Women Women
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1946 1967 The Pig-in-the-Python
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1946 1967 The Pig-in-the-Python
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Good, True, Beautiful
Wilberforce
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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6
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“I put before you life and death, the blessing and the curse, now choose life.” Deuteronomy 30:19
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The Audience wants to experience
Becoming Fully Alive Or, the Living Dead
Cinema is the artform of transformation
What the Character experiences:
Transformation
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Storytelling:
Reinvention
There are only two themes in
Redemption
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“If you want to send a message, send a telegram.”
Billy Wilder
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“In all my years in Hollywood, I knew maybe 5 writers who knew structure. But you could always find someone to write great dialogue.”
Billy Wilder
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Huston Smith
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“It was the mystery, the magic, the wonder and the innocence of never having done it before. These were the seeds of creativity that developed into my personal story.”
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The biggest thing I’ve been thankful for, I’ve been able to use my imagination. That’s where my imagination came into play.
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Y’know, I thought I could do it.
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It’s the worst of times, and the best of times.
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Audacity
Take Me To A World I’ve Never Seen Before
Excellence in Storytelling
What the Audience Wants
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Tell Me A Story Compelling Structure
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Why can’t they make movies like they used to?
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Let’s do it.
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