6/23/2023 0 Comments Robert mckee![]() ![]() But they are under-educated in terms of the art-form," he said. If anything - at least in quantity if not quality - they are more well-educated. "I don't care," about the changing economics, said McKee, who plans to develop a new seminar which he will deliver online. Video piracy has also sapped film studios' profits. "And great television does exactly that," added McKee, the author of five books who has, for decades, delivered what the New York Times dubbed "the most popular screenwriting seminar in the country" to tens of thousands of students.Ĭinema, dominant through much of the 20th century, has seen attendance sag as audiences opted for the privacy and convenience of home-viewing - a flight enforced by COVID-19 shutdowns. Over three intense, eleven-hour () days, McKee stalks the stage with the. ![]() If you engage the interest of people today, they will give you days out of their lives." They say taking Robert McKees 3-day Story Seminar is an experience like no other. They aren't going to sit for 60 seconds and watch anything they don't enjoy. "For the human attention span to actually shorten would require change at a genetic level. He cited the complex construction of multi-season series like "Breaking Bad" or "Ozark", which amount to scores of hours of air-time - compared to the 90- to 120-minute lengths of traditional feature films.īinge-watching, he argued, is a testament to concentration. These works will be the cathedrals of the 21st century. "I see the future as rather brilliant, but it's not in the cinema," McKee told Reuters during a visit to Israel, the final leg for the farewell tour of his lecture series. While film producers fret about box-office takes and parents about their kids' ability to focus beyond TikTok clips, McKee, 81, insists that dynamics of plot and character remain the same, at heart - and that the new formats may in fact enrich the form. TEl AVIV, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The sun may be setting on Hollywood movies - and on his own storied career there - but scriptwriting guru Robert McKee is unfazed and even upbeat about the rise of alternative small-screen entertainment for television or smartphone. I look forward to wonderful stories coming out of Holland. My sincere thanks to Sander Veeneman and to Dutch writers who attended the seminar. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression. Sanset Pictures created a perfect stage for me to deliver my lecture. Their concentration was ferocious their sense of humor was spot on their energy lifted mine higher and higher, day after day, till the last syllable of the last word. ![]() ![]() ‘The artists who attended my Amsterdam lectures were of a quality I rarely experience. He mentioned his Amsterdam seminar was one of the best seminars in the world he has ever given: Robert McKee himself was also highly positive about the organization and his audience. Other than Dutch participants, people from England, Ireland and even Australia were present. Among the partakers were scenarists, directors, producers, actors, writers and presenters. People from several countries visited Amsterdam to attend the seminar. Much attention was given by the Dutch press, as many journalists and bloggers gathered to meet ‘Hollywood’s largest’ (Volkskrant) in person. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Prior to the seminar, Sanset Pictures organized the Q&A of Robert McKee in the Amsterdam Eye Filmmuseum. Robert McKees screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. ![]()
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