Look, this video was uploaded 3 years ago and all the other videos of Michael Hauge. And I am still coming back to these videos to learn more and more. Thanks Film Courage (I can't thank you enough in words for the knowledge you have given us. Your whole channel has taught me so much. So thank you very very much 🙏🏼) and Michael Hauge is an amazing teacher, nobody can argue against that. Thank you so much Michael! Much love 💛
We're working on his full interview now. We still have 4 segments to release but may release his full interview ahead of the release of those segments. We love hearing him break down story structure.
The more i learn about a characters essence and the reflection character is a constant reminder that I lost my reflector when my best friend died... I've never been the same since. I myself have been trapped inside of my identity. Gets to me sometimes
Then it’s time you become your own best friend. If that person was truly a person very close to your heart, then everytime you need him/her just sit somewhere quiet close your eyes and let the noise in your head quiet down. Once all the chatter is quiet, you’ll hear that best friend speak to you from within your heart giving you directions. I love you. 🤗
The more movies are structured like the structure Michael Hauge is promoting, the more movies will feel unoriginal. The audience is not stupid, the audience notices this. Michael Hauge is one of the reasons today's feature films are less original than television shows like The Wire and Braking Bad. What Michael Hauge is offering is a template. Templates are fine if you don't mind to be unoriginal. If you're an aspiring scriptwriter and want to stand out from the crowd you better come up with something fresh, something that doesn't follow `the rules' and still works as a compelling story. Remember: Most stories follow conventions, real life doesn't. So if you want to create a compelling story that is fresh and true to life, stay away from the conventions.
Nobody shows you how to do it, step by step process. They just talk about it. Ok, that's not totally true. There are a few who will but it will cost an arm and a leg
always the outer journey should dominate the inner journey, for example the steams of the tree and the leaves of the tree are beautiful but the roots are ugly which is inside the ground , in the mud..to me the root is the real inner journey it is the life of the tree and finally it is the cause to get the fruits.. similarly when you write the journey of the protagonist ...the protagonist should run behind wrong goals or wrong directions which can give him/her wrong success then at this moment he/she should know the actual goal which is realization factor, and in that point when they see inside they would have learnt many things which will now guide them to reach their actual goals.
To me, everything that is wrong with modern screenwriting is in the blind industrial application of that 6 points structure. It makes everything painfully gimmicky and predictable. I got to a point where watching the movies following this structure becomes dreadful and I can't make it past stage one. Makes passable movies when executed properly. Passable. Nothing special. Everyone is getting a paycheck. Nobody is making history. Nobody crossed a line. People, make it your own way. Experiment. Ignore the rules. Envision.
@@nonono9194 They are not rules. They are self imposed lanes that writers funnel themselves down like a bunch of lemmings without a second thought, because that's what they were taught to do and they're too brainwashed to question it. Do your own thing and see where it takes you. You don't need to know all the ways other writers constrain themselves.
I enjoy his lectures until he starts using words like "essence," he just loses me there. Conflict between his "identity" and his "essence" just makes the technique sound more obtuse than necessary. Like some sort of new age babble -- makes it that much harder to internalize, for me anyway.
"Essence" to me is like Joseph Campbell's "bliss". Fake identity/personality vs. being one's true self. So, "follow your bliss" means the character builds up the courage to be their true self. It's when you be you.
Identity is a construct. Essence is your authentic self. Let’s say you have a lawyer....he/she dresses talks walks Lawyer that’s who they appear to be. That’s how others see them and what they’ve created...they go to work fight for others...but their true self has nothing to do with language or clothing or pretense...the authentic self doesn’t show up or defend itself it simply is...now you have something authentic. So you appear (identity) to be one thing when in truth you are something else (authentic).
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Look, this video was uploaded 3 years ago and all the other videos of Michael Hauge. And I am still coming back to these videos to learn more and more. Thanks Film Courage (I can't thank you enough in words for the knowledge you have given us. Your whole channel has taught me so much. So thank you very very much 🙏🏼) and Michael Hauge is an amazing teacher, nobody can argue against that. Thank you so much Michael!
Much love 💛
Thanks Ajinkya, we appreciate you spending time here with us. Much love to you.
Michael Hauge is very didatic. I've watched everything I could find of his lectures and bought one of his books. Great teacher.
We're working on his full interview now. We still have 4 segments to release but may release his full interview ahead of the release of those segments. We love hearing him break down story structure.
Great news! Thank you so much for that.
The more i learn about a characters essence and the reflection character is a constant reminder that I lost my reflector when my best friend died... I've never been the same since. I myself have been trapped inside of my identity. Gets to me sometimes
Then it’s time you become your own best friend. If that person was truly a person very close to your heart, then everytime you need him/her just sit somewhere quiet close your eyes and let the noise in your head quiet down. Once all the chatter is quiet, you’ll hear that best friend speak to you from within your heart giving you directions.
I love you. 🤗
So, so good. So glad I found your channel! It’s like fast forwarding 5 years as a writer with every episode! 😂👏👏👏
He’s so good!
Michael Hauge's guidance is excellent :)
I'd love to have this dude as my film professor!
Interesting. Thank you.
"I wish I could remember his name, but I don't. OKAY?"
LOL! I noticed that too! Loved it and actually laughed out loud.😂
Brilliant
Please do a video on sad ending/climax!
God damn great video!
Thanks David. Nice to see we aren't the only ones who enjoy listening to Michael Hauge talk story.
The more movies are structured like the structure Michael Hauge is promoting, the more movies will feel unoriginal. The audience is not stupid, the audience notices this. Michael Hauge is one of the reasons today's feature films are less original than television shows like The Wire and Braking Bad. What Michael Hauge is offering is a template. Templates are fine if you don't mind to be unoriginal. If you're an aspiring scriptwriter and want to stand out from the crowd you better come up with something fresh, something that doesn't follow `the rules' and still works as a compelling story. Remember: Most stories follow conventions, real life doesn't. So if you want to create a compelling story that is fresh and true to life, stay away from the conventions.
Nobody shows you how to do it, step by step process. They just talk about it. Ok, that's not totally true. There are a few who will but it will cost an arm and a leg
always the outer journey should dominate the inner journey, for example the steams of the tree and the leaves of the tree are beautiful but the roots are ugly which is inside the ground , in the mud..to me the root is the real inner journey it is the life of the tree and finally it is the cause to get the fruits..
similarly when you write the journey of the protagonist ...the protagonist should run behind wrong goals or wrong directions which can give him/her wrong success then at this moment he/she should know the actual goal which is realization factor, and in that point when they see inside they would have learnt many things which will now guide them to reach their actual goals.
To me, everything that is wrong with modern screenwriting is in the blind industrial application of that 6 points structure. It makes everything painfully gimmicky and predictable. I got to a point where watching the movies following this structure becomes dreadful and I can't make it past stage one. Makes passable movies when executed properly. Passable. Nothing special. Everyone is getting a paycheck. Nobody is making history. Nobody crossed a line. People, make it your own way. Experiment. Ignore the rules. Envision.
Show us how.
Anaïs Siab know the rules before you start to break them
Anaïs Siab what movies have you enjoyed that didn’t follow these outlines ?
@@nonono9194 damnnnnnnn 2 years later i see that answer and i am speechless
@@nonono9194 They are not rules.
They are self imposed lanes that writers funnel themselves down like a bunch of lemmings without a second thought, because that's what they were taught to do and they're too brainwashed to question it.
Do your own thing and see where it takes you. You don't need to know all the ways other writers constrain themselves.
The interviewer has such a sexy voice, I don't want to know who's behind it because I'm likely to get dissapointed.
I enjoy his lectures until he starts using words like "essence," he just loses me there. Conflict between his "identity" and his "essence" just makes the technique sound more obtuse than necessary. Like some sort of new age babble -- makes it that much harder to internalize, for me anyway.
"Essence" to me is like Joseph Campbell's "bliss". Fake identity/personality vs. being one's true self. So, "follow your bliss" means the character builds up the courage to be their true self. It's when you be you.
Acting versus being. What you're acting like as oppose to who you really are!
Identity is a construct.
Essence is your authentic self.
Let’s say you have a lawyer....he/she dresses talks walks Lawyer that’s who they appear to be. That’s how others see them and what they’ve created...they go to work fight for others...but their true self has nothing to do with language or clothing or pretense...the authentic self doesn’t show up or defend itself it simply is...now you have something authentic. So you appear (identity) to be one thing when in truth you are something else (authentic).