SARAH GERTRUDE SHAPIRO - CREATOR, WRITER, DIRECTOR: UnREAL
"Another incredible day in Hollywoodland!! 3 day workshop with Joan Scheckel blew my mind out of my head - one of the most incredible experiences of my creative life to date. Directing is a JOB; a really complicated, magical, incredible alchemist job, that I am learning how to ACTUALLY DO, step by step, beat by beat until it's memorized in my body. Doing exercises and showing sides of myself I am terrified to show... is the same level of stuff I am about to ask my actors to do. Great lesson in empathy. Makes me crazy excited to properly break down my script, cast and MAKE!"
WHAT IS IT?
A STEP BY STEP DIRECTING TOOLKIT.
Each Directing Lab takes concepts from Core Labs of The Technique™ and puts them into the rehearsal space with actors and scripts.
While it is recommended that you take these Labs in the order shown below, it is not a requirement! The JSFL Team can always assist you in a customized study plan that works for you and your schedule.
This is the moment where there is no turning back. The story gets "launched" here. It's where the plane takes off.
This pivotal scene is often lost; Set-Ups often are way too long, and then the audience is hurled into the Crisis. Or everything is thrown into the Set-Up beat, with hopes that the audience will get hooked on some exciting piece of action.
What you want to think about in the Point of No Return is the meaning of your story, where it is going to end up, and how you are engaging people in meaning from the beginning. We don't need to know the ending here - but we need to know something has begun.
WHO GOES?
The Lab Series is designed for Film, Episodic, Commercial and all content creators. It may be attended individually by the Writer, Director or Producer...or by the entire Team.
- Directors
- Writers
- Actors
- Producers
- Executives
- Financiers
- Production
- Designers
- Cinematographers
- Editors
Please See Films, Community and Quotes for Artists Joan has worked with and their thoughts.
WHEN / WHERE?
NEW* ONLINE SELF GUIDED
Anytime Self-Guided Online via Thinkific! For the first time ever, this course can be taken online at your own pace, for details check out SELF-GUIDED
