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Scriptwriter
ScriptWriter magazine presents: RIGHT-BRAIN SCRIPTWRITING TECHNIQUES
18 June - Jurgen Wolff
From one of Europe's leading scriptwriters, script consultant and NLP practitioner.
“Are
British films failing because writers are using the wrong side of their
brains?” Scriptwriter and teacher Jurgen Wolff says yes. "Unfortunately,
the pattern of British films is to that there is one success, such as
'Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels,' and then everyone goes to work
making dozens of less successful clones. The same thing applied for years
with people trying to copy the success of the Merchant-Ivory films. For
twenty years you saw only people with cucumber sandwiches in their hands,
now you see only people with pistols in their hands."
The
key to changing all that, Wolff suggests--and teaches in a one-day
Masterclass at RADA--is not following formulas, but allowing your own
creativity (the right side of your brain) freer reign. The techniques he
teaches are based on NeuroLinguistic Programming, a branch of psychology
that looks at the interaction between the mind and body, and how feelings
and meaning are conveyed. How does that relate to writing scripts? "The
reason that many American films are so successful," Wolff says, "is that
they appeal to the emotions first and the intellect second--if at all. I'm
not suggesting that we make mindless movies, but that we make movies that
appeal to the whole person."
In
his workshop, he shows writers how to use visualisation and other
techniques to create three-dimensional characters and stories with
emotional appeal. "Put the story first," he advises. "Let it reveal its
shape to you, rather than trying to cram it into the same shape that
happened to apply to the most recent hit."
Wolff practices what he preaches, too. He wrote the film, "The Real Howard
Spitz," starring Kelsey Grammer, and has written more than 100 episodes of
television including "Benson," "Family Ties," and "Relic Hunter." His
original children's series, "Norman Normal," has lasted for 52 episodes
and another 13 are in production. "I've even written comedy series for
Germans," he says. "If my methods work for that, they'll work for
anything."
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For full details of the courses, speakers' biographies and course location go to:
http://www.scriptwritermagazine.com/WolffMC.htm
or: www.scriptwritermagazine.com and click on ‘Masterclasses’.