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MICHAEL HAUGE, author of Writing Screenplays That Sell, has consulted with screenwriters or producers on projects for Warners, Disney, New Line, CBS, Lifetime, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Lopez and Julia Roberts. He is producing several films based on screenplays by former clients, and has presented his screenwriting seminars and lectures to more than 30,000 writers and filmmakers throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Michael is on the Board of Directors for the American Screenwriting Association. He is a STAR Speaker of the Screenwriting Expo.

ROB TOBIN is a former development exec and VP of the country’s largest screenwriting school, script consultant, writing coach, and award-winning who read more than 5,000 screenplays before writing How to Write High-Structure, High-Concept Screenplays. He now shares that experience at film festivals and writing conferences around the country and applies those principles to his own award-winning screenplays and to the work of his clients, helping them write structurally foolproof, fast-moving scripts. He was a STAR Speaker of Screenwriting Expo 2 and Screenwriting Expo 3.

JEFF KITCHEN is a working writer and has taught screenwriting professionally since 1989. He was classically trained as a playwright, worked as a dramaturg in New York theatre, and taught playwriting Off Broadway. Jeff has taught advanced structural technique to development executives from all the major Hollywood studios and is a sought-after script doctor. He is the author of Writing a Great Movie: Four Advanced Tools for the Dramatist, and Script Analysis: The Godfather, Tootsie and Blade Runner. Jeff regularly speaks at large screenwriting conventions and is billed as one of the top screenwriting teachers in the world.

MICHAEL RAY BROWN is a veteran story analyst with more than 25 years’ experience at 7 major studios and one of Hollywood’s top script doctors. His contributions have led to a “green light” for such films as Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, Red Corner, Contact, and Hart’s War. Now a freelance writer, story editor, and consultant, Michael has more than 35 hours of produced screenplay credits.

PAUL JOSEPH GULINO taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California for five years, and since 1998 has served as head of the screenwriting program at Chapman University in Orange, California. His credits include two produced screenplays in addition to numerous commissioned scripts and script consultations, and his plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. His book, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach was published last year and has already been adopted as a textbook at several leading film schools nationwide. He studied screenwriting with Milos Forman, Samson Raphaelson, and Frank Daniel at Columbia University. He was a STAR Speaker of Screenwriting Expo 3.

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Expo StructurePak DVD Set

(5 DVD Set)

"Nobody knows how to teach screenwriters how to bring their stories to the next level better than Prof. K. Buy this DVD. Do it. Now!”
—Jeff Arch, Screenwriter of Sleepless in Seattle

“Rob Tobin is blessed with unique skills both literary and cinematic. His creative instincts are first-rate.”

—Paul Levine, best-selling novelist

“Jeff Kitchen is a master teacher who truly understands the art and technique of the screenplay. His course is worth its weight in gold.”

—Chris Brancato, writer/producer of Hoodlum, North Shore

“Michael Brown gives you the most direct path to writing a marketable screenplay. His 18-step plan takes you from the beginning to the end of your writing experience.”

—Angela M. Cranon, publisher, Hollywood Scriptwriter magazine

“A succinct introduction not only to sequences, but also the theory that underlies all dramatic storytelling.”

—Andrew W. Marlowe, screenwriter of Air Force One, End of Days, and Hollow Man

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The Expo StructurePak is a 5-DVD course on crafting the successful screenplay. From scene to act to finished script, experts lay out the benchmarks your script needs to sell.

DVD 1: Michael Hauge’s Creating Powerful Movie Scenes (Trailer)

Good scenes are like great movies in miniature: they draw the reader into a unique reality; create empathy and identification with the characters; reveal compelling desires and insurmountable conflicts; contribute to character growth and theme; provide a blueprint for direction and performance; and elicit bigger-than-life emotions. Using examples from such award winning screenplays as Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, and Pirates of the Caribbean, this DVD reveals the elements of action, description, and dialogue that will insure the overall success of your screenplay.

DVD 2: Rob Tobin’s The Seven Essential Elements of a Successful Screenplay (Trailer)

This user-friendly, cutting edge workshop teaches the seven essential elements of successful screenplays: the hero, hero’s flaw, hero’s ally, opponent, lifechanging event, enabling circumstances and jeopardy.

Rob uses his highly informative and entertaining style to explore and explain terms and concepts not discussed in even the most celebrated screenwriting workshops.

It is essential to not just use these essential elements in your screenplays, but to create the correct relationship between them. Just as walls, floors and ceilings must be in correct relationship to each other to form a house, these essential elements must be in correct relationship to each other to create an exciting, structurally sound, and commercially viable story.

“The difference between a waiter and a writer is a single letter and a million words,” Rob often says. “But simply writing a million words will do you no good unless you know how to structure your story, how to identify the building blocks and how to use them. Otherwise you might as well be writing a telephone book.”

Having read more than 5,000 screenplays, Rob’s encountered more than his share of “telephone books” and is anxious to help you make your screenplay the best it can be.

DVD 3: Jeff Kitchen’s Class on Sequence, Proposition, Plot (Trailer)

Hollywood studio development executives consistently call Sequence, Proposition, Plot the most advanced development tool in the film industry. This three-step process helps you systematically tighten and dramatize every part of your screenplay as you build its structure. Take all the energy that goes into rewrites and put it into properly engineering your script before you write it.

Apply it to your whole script, to each act, each sequence, and each scene.
Use reverse cause and effect to separate the Necessary from the Unnecessary.
Create consistently compelling dramatic action.

DVD 4: Michael Ray Brown’s A Structure Checklist: How to Plug the Holes in Your Script (Trailer)

Screenwriting has been described as a craft, not an art. Structure is arguably the most important factor in a script’s success. Learn how to quickly analyze your screenplay in 18 crucial areas. Discover what it takes to make your script fire on all cylinders.

This DVD will arm you with all the tools you need to write an effective screenplay that is salable.
An entire screenwriting course on one disk, this DVD is a must-have guide for both novices and professionals.

DVD 5: Paul Gulino’s Sequences: The Hidden Structure of Successful Screenplays (Trailer)

The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience emotional involvement from page one through page 120. This seminar explores an often-overlooked tool that can help: a screenplay can be built of sequences of about fifteen pages each. By focusing on solving the dramatic aspects of each sequence, a writer can more easily conquer the script as a whole. DVD includes:

Historical background of sequences.
Introduction of the Four Big Tools that storytellers use to maintain audience attention.
Graphics demonstrating the “nested structure” of successful screenplays.
A sequence analysis of two recent, successful motion pictures.


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