For over three decades, Robert McKee has taught countless numbers of individuals the art of storytelling. Through his "Story Seminar", he has helped a generation's worth of Hollywood talent find their voice and in the process influencing how we view entertainment forever.
In this course, you will learn what it means to use effective dialogue, no matter what your medium. Whether you are crafting your first screenplay, penning a short story or manuscript, or just curious to learn more about what makes a good story great, this course is sure to offer you something.
This course contains:
- Over 5 hours of Video
- Writing assignments and exercises designed by Robert himself
- Over 400 pages of the uncut draft of 'On Dialogue'
- Community Feedback and Collaboration
- Premium Packages include feedback from Industry professionals, including Robert Mckee himself
Your Instructor
Robert McKee, A Fulbright Scholar, is the most sought after screenwriting lecturer around the globe. He has dedicated the last 30 years to educating and mentoring screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, poets, documentary makers, producers, and directors internationally. Those who have learned from McKee have called him "the Aristotle of our time" because of his insight into the substance, structure, style, and principles of the grand art of story.
McKee's former students include over 60 Academy Award Winners, 200 Academy Award Nominees, 200 Emmy Award Winners, 1000 Emmy Award Nominees, 100 WGA (Writers Guild of America) Award Winners, 250 WGA Award Nominees, and 50 DGA (Directors Guild of America) Award Winners, 100 DGA Award Nominees.
A winner and nominee of BAFTA for his popular Channel Four series REEL SECRETS, McKee also wrote and hosted 12 episodes of BBC's FILMWORKS series.He was profiled by Bob Simon of 60 Minutes for CBS news.
McKee's articles on Story have also appeared in hundreds of major newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio outlets around the world including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker Magazine, Swiss Business Magazine, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, CBS Morning News, and BBC.
Frequently Asked Questions
A Letter From Robert
No matter how lavish a play's production, how vivid a novel's descriptions, how superb a film's photography, it is character talk that shapes the complexities, ironies, and innerness of story. Without expressive dialogue events lack depth, characters lose dimension, and story flattens. More than any other technique of characterization (gender, age, costume, class, casting, etc.) dialogue has the power to lift a merely complicated telling into full complexity, to pull a story out of the shallows and up through life's multilayered stratum to the surface of speech.
There's a difference between works that are flat and inconsequential and those that capture, move and dazzle the observer. A difference between writers that flounder throughout their career and those that go on to win Emmy's and WGA Awards. And that difference is dialogue. Dialogue that brings the work to life in the audience's mind and takes them for a beautiful ride. And the ability of the writer to script and develop this intriguing dialogue. We're drawn to dialogue because the little Narcissus in us all loves the sound of his own voice. We collect our favorite authors because in the voices of their characters we hear echoes of our own thoughts.
Come take this wild ride with me and take your dialogue to the next level.
Praise For Robert McKee
"Legendary"
" His great insight and knowledge in storytelling is unparalleled."
"A not-so-secret force in the movie industry and Hollywood's most sought-after screenwriting instructor."
"The Ultimate Master."