Learn from a Hollywood pro who has spent over two decades writing screenplays, mastering film structure, and working for both studios and A-list screenwriters. Whether you're a novice or an experienced screenwriter or simply curious about how films work, you'll be sure to benefit from Mr. Scherick's vast reservoir of knowledge and expertise.
African Queen Lecture
As an introduction to his workshops, Gregory Scherick offers a four-part series of lectures on cinematic story structure,
where he draws on almost two-and-a-half decades of
professional experience in
the motion picture business to deliver this interactive and entertaining presentation. To illustrate his points, he goes scene-by-scene through
the Academy Award-winning film African Queen (starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn) and examines what drives
compelling movies, then relates those insights to everyday life, demonstrating
that story structure is not some inscrutable, arcane science; but rather a very familiar force that we all continually experience.
Mr. Scherick's lecture series is designed to acquaint prospective clients with the nature and effectiveness of his approach. Atendees who find the work valuable will then have the opportunity to move into one of Mr. Scherick's workshops, which focus on facilitating the writing of effective screenplays as well as applying the powerful tennents of mytic structure to help clients reach their life goals.
Enduring Themes
The African Queen is an academy-award winning film, directed
by John Houston.
Because of its simple and direct approach, the film provides a unique
insight into the basic components of cinematic structure. Despite a short
running time, it manages to pack in many examples of varying genres,
offering additional opportunity to understand the different types
of story structure. It's an enduring classic with quite modern themes. It was also the first film Mr. Scherick
used many years ago to begin his own study.
The International Scherick Approach
Mr. Scherick began his study of story and cinematic structure long before there were endless books and seminars available on the subject. His significant knowledge comes from his own intensive study of countless films and scripts. Along the way he realized that the rules of cinematic structure were not distant and difficult concepts to comprehend, but that they reflected a very predictable set of eternal, changeless principles which governed the nature of how every individual on the planet experiences growth and transformation. He saw that writing effective screenplays came more from the deep understanding our own expieriences than it did from reading books and listening to lectures (other than his, of course).
Mr. Scherick's approach is powerful less so because it teaches you the concepts of cinematic structure, and more so because it helps you realize that you already know them.