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STORY STRUCTURE FOR FILM AND ANIMATION with Alex Mann

April 9, 2020 - June 11, 2020
6 pm - 10 pm

CTN STUDIO
847 N. Hollywood Way, Suite 100
Burbank, CA 91505

The workshop is designed for animation and live-action storytellers who want to discover techniques that filmmakers use to generate emotionally charged well-structured stories. In this class, our primary objective is to learn how to use the principles of classic narrative structure to create a visceral symbiotic engagement with our audience through a great story, well told. We will be taking an in-depth look at dramatic construction fundamentals – highlights include: three-act structure, point of attack, character development, moral dilemma, dramatic irony, sub-text and theme. We will, analyze why story values properly dramatized are the key to understanding theme, and gives stories meaning. In addition, we will uncover the eight essential questions every successful narrative must ask. Participants will be called upon to generate an original beat sheet, story outline and treatment for a short film. Collectively, we’ll workshop the stories and students will receive in-class critiques.

Born and raised in Southern California, ALEX MANN is the son of actress Mary Kathleen Williams-Mann and award-winning Hollywood film director Daniel Mann. He attended the Windward School in Santa Monica, CA. Upon graduating high school, Alex was a summer intern at The Walt Disney Studios where he worked with many brilliant Disney veterans during the production of The Rescuers.

Alex attended film school at California Institute of the Arts after being awarded a Disney Fellowship. He studied character animation and screenwriting under the tutelage of animation director Jack Hannah, and legendary British filmmaker Alexander “Sandy” Mackendrick. After receiving his BFA from Cal-Arts, he worked in story development for producer Robert Joseph at Universal Studios. Later, Alex was recruited by Hyperion Pictures to work on the award-winning animated feature The Brave Little Toaster.

The Walt Disney Studios hired Alex to co-write and co-direct, the Annie nominated, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas. In addition, he worked on early story development for Disney’s Frozen. Alex was instrumental in creating the final script for Mickey’s Philharmagic, a co-production between Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering. The project features 3D animation from many of Disney’s classic animated movies, notably: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Aladdin and Peter Pan. The attraction is a resounding success with audiences at Disney Park’s around the world.

ALEX MANN: Over the years, Alex has had the pleasure of working as a writer, director and story artist for Sony Pictures Animation, Warner Brothers, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Imagineering, Universal Studios, and Nickelodeon on many popular animated movies and television shows - highlights include: The Goofy Movie, Oliver and Co., Space Jam, Lilo and Stitch 2, Treasure Planet, Curious George, Tinker Bell, and Planes. Currently Alex is teaching dramatic construction and film grammar to character animation students in the Entertainment Design School at Art Center College of Design. In addition to his membership in The Animation Guild, Alex is a member of The Writers Guild of America.

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