Memo: The Genesis Machines

7 hrs. 6 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Christopher Vogler

Narrators Ivan Litvinov, Dmitry Kreminsky

Narrator Ivan Litvinov

Narrator Dmitry Kreminsky

Description

This book is the result of many years of work by Christopher Vogler and David McKenna. As professional experts, they analyzed a total of more than 40,000 scripts of the most diverse genres. Their joint work is not just useful storytelling tools — they consider it a “lifesaving” guide both for beginners and for actively writing authors. The book’s title comes from a Memo guide written once by Vogler for work in the screenwriting department, which became a legendary manual for many generations of screenwriters. But it’s only one of the many analysis and narrative-structure-and-character-work methods described in the book — from the characters of Theophrastus and the morphology of the Russian philologist Vladimir Propp’s magical fairy tale to the authors’ own techniques by Vogler and McKenna. The authors not only generously share their secrets and show, with examples from successful films, how they’re used — but they also give after each chapter practical advice and specific assignments for independent work for future screenwriters and writers.