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MIFF – BOBETTE BUSTER’S WHAT’S THE STORY?

Hollywood-based story and script consultant Bobette Buster’s five-part seminar series explores the factors, in scriptwriting, screen craft and our own senses, that help Take Your Storytelling to the Next Level and Learn What Makes a Great Story Well Told so that people can be the best storyteller. Buster consults and lectures for the likes of Disney, Pixar, BBC, Screen Training Ireland, has written two books (Do Story and Do Listen) and Cannes-selected feature documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, and was a creative story executive for Hollywood greats Tony Scott (The Good Wife), Ray Stark (Steel Magnolias) and Larry Gelbart (Tootsie).
Tickets per session are on sale: http://miff.com.au/industry-public-access-events

Tell Your Story So the World Listens: 10 proven concepts
Monday 5th Aug 10am-1pm
A great story well told has the power to change the world. Buster’s 10 principles of storytelling demonstrate how anyone can turn their story from good… to great. Whether you’re developing a film script, literary work, putting together a pitch or writing your company’s ‘About’ page, this seminar reveals why you should aim to “only connect”. So, what’s your story?

Deconstructing Master Filmmakers Who Tell a Great Story: Jordan Peele’s Get Out
Tuesday 6th Aug 10am-4pm (including lunch break)
A breakthrough masterpiece in cinematic storytelling, Get Out collides the classic Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner with horror, and, perhaps for the first time in cinema, yields a film giving white audiences a visceral experience of racism. This session analyzes the film’s storytelling: the development of its “Big Idea” and how this was “plussed” by all seven cinematic arts – directing, writing, acting, cinematography, sound/music, art department/FX, costume/production design – demonstrating how every department is led by the writer/director’s “Big Idea” of the film.

Cinema’s Invisible Partners: How Sound and the Senses Tell Your Story
Wednesday 7th Aug 10am-1:30pm (including screening)
Cinema relies on masterful sound design to evoke the powerful emotional responses critical to a film’s success. Buster’s seminar demonstrates how visionary directors with creative sound designers create the specific, subconscious, emotional reactions and story moments in iconic films. The session starts with viewing Cannes-selected feature documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (which Buster wrote/produced) that captures the history, impact and creative process of this art form through the stories of legendary directors like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Barbra Streisand, Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola and Ryan Coogler, and the sound practitioners they collaborate with.

The Uses of Wonder: Ask the Right Questions of Your Story
Thursday 8th Aug 10am-12pm
Do we have enough imagination to live our best lives and be our own best storytellers? This session explores the uses of wonder and enchantment in storytelling and shares how to ask the right questions of your story, including: What’s the Big Idea?; Why Do We Care?; What Do You Feel?; What’s the Cinema Language?; as well as examining How to Raise the Stakes in a Scene, Mining the zeitgeist, and All Roads Leading to the Last Emotion.

Listen-Up: How Really Listening Enhances Story
Thursday 8th Aug 2pm-4pm
As J. K. Rowling said: “You cannot tell a story unless someone wants to listen.” But is social media killing the art of listening and really hearing? To listen is an active verb and this session dissects the strength of listening and reveals its power in creating wonder, connections, friends, lovers, community – and great stories. Discover how learning to listen helps us hear and share great stories well told.

When

5th August 2019 10:00 am
To 8th August 2019 04:00 pm

Where

Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library
179 La Trobe St, Entry 3
Melbourne