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Friday, April 30, 2021

The Package - All 12 Storycraft Lessons



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LESSONS NO. 1-12   VIDEOS: 25  LENGTH: 520-min.   SLIDES: 372   CLIPS: 44

WHAT THIS COURSE WILL TEACH YOU:
Scroll down to see the individual descriptions under each course listed on the *HOME page at right.

ALSO AVAILABLE: The 12 lessons are also available individually. Scroll below for information and trailers on each.

PREREQUISITES: Take the first ten lessons in order 1-10.

DESCRIPTION: The trailer for the entire package is a free episode that briefly summarizes the 18 Secrets of Successful Stories. (Click on image above.)

The Moral Premise Storycraft Training series provides practical understanding of the Natural Laws of Story Telling as they pertain to structure and how audiences emotionally connect with a story's characters. The training applies to any media type and genre, although for illustration purposes motion pictures are used for examples.

The series is based on Stan Williams' book THE MORAL PREMISE: HARNESSING VIRTUE AND VICE FOR BOX OFFICE SUCCESS, as well as Stan's workshops and story and script consulting work in Hollywood since 2006. The series is composed of 12 Lessons or 25 Video Episodes . Together they deliver the core content from Stan's two-day workshop, but condense the material into about 8.5-hours of content delivery.

Consistently structuring a story around a true moral premise is the crux of all successful stories. In these 12 episodes (and 25 videos) Dr. Williams explains how irony, hooks, log lines, a conflict of values, character traits, dramatic beats, over all structure, a moment of grace, and character transformation are designed into the arcs of characters, plots and subplots.


Friday, April 23, 2021

8. The Moment of Grace (The Midpoint)

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LESSON NO. 8   VIDEO PARTS: 2   LENGTH: 53-min   SLIDES: 17   CLIPS:7
PREREQUSITES: Lessons 1-7
DESCRIPTION:  This 53-minute, two-part,  presentation by Dr. Stan Williams, explains and shows examples of the The Moment of Grace (MOG) in successful and not so successful motion pictures. The MOG is the main plot's mid-point. It's the scene where the truth of the Moral Premise is realized by the Protagonist and he or she changes their motivations, and thus changes their arc. Examples are shown from Lord of the Rings, A Beautiful Mind, Liar! Liar!,What Women Want, Ratatouille,  and Aronofsky' Noah.

SPECIFICALLY, this lesson covers:

-- The 12 and 13th Secrets of Successful Stories
-- How the Moment of Grace defines all plot arcs
-- Why the protagonist's Moment of Grace is at the mid-point
-- How other Moments of Grace can be just about anywhere.
-- Examples of the Moment of Grace in A Beautiful Mind, Liar! Liar!, Ratatouille, What Women Want, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship and Noah.
-- Compares and contrasts the two Moments of Grace in Noah.