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WHAT IS IT?
The Heart of The Technique™, Joan Scheckel's game-changing approach to Film, Episodic and Commercial artistic craft.
In this playful, rigorous, 4 Day intensive Lab, you will discover tools to access the emotional core of your work. Learn how Feeling connects to Action and Rhythm, and use it to empower every level of your creativity!
This essential, craft packed weekend delivers tools to:
Day 1: The Four Essentials of Story and Performance
First, we focus on clarifying the 4 Essentials of your screenplay, episodic, or character. Break down and specify the key feelings central to your:
Use this clarity to:
Day 2: Feeling, Music and Rhythm
Explore what Feeling actually is. Demystify how to give it practical language in your artistic work. Delve into the core physical exercises of The Technique™ and learn how to access Feelings physically, emotionally, intellectually and creatively. Use these tools to:
Day 3: Character Journey and World
Using movement, music, writing, drawing and visualization exercises, investigate your character’s journey through the story. Then, using music and movement and the essentials of Rhythm, learn how to create a visceral sense of the World in which your story takes place.
Use these tools to:
Day 4: Online Q & A and continued curriculum
After the weekend intensive, a Monday night Q & A via Zoom allows Joan to slow down and integrate the learning with the students while continuing study with further curriculum. This lively night is always full of surprises as you connect with yourselves, each other and the work.
Recap all the new tools the Lab has delivered!
WHERE:
Live Online via Thinkific.
TUITION:
The course is designed for professionals who wish to bring their skills to the next level.
The Tuition per participant is: $1,625
Enroll directly via the checkout at the bottom of the page.
REFUND/CANCELLATION/MAKE-UP POLICY:
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF LABS ONLINE?
ACCESS THE JSFL ALUMNI HUB:
DRESS TO MOVE:
Sweats, yoga clothes (no jeans), and sneakers, as if you were going to the gym.
No belts, earrings, or jewelry please. We want you to protect your bodies during floor work!
Please note the lab is physical, you are free to observe at your comfort level. Please be respectful of your body and do not participate in the physical work if you have any physical injuries, illness, are on any medications, or are pregnant.
CLASS LEVEL:
WHO GOES:
Whether you are Directing, Writing, Acting, or Producing, The Technique™ is essential in taking your career to the next level! The Lab Series is designed for Film, Episodic, Commercial, and all content creators. It may be attended individually …or by the entire team.
Directors
Writers
Actors
Producers
Executives
Production
Designers
Cinematographers
Editors
Brand Directors
Any creatives are interested in Story!
WHAT IS THE TECHNIQUE?
The Technique™ is the first, and only, entirely new approach to dramatic craft to be developed since The Method. A paradigm shifting approach to writing, directing and acting, The Technique throws out conflict as the source of story - and instead puts Meaning at the core.
The Technique is now the most influential craft utilized in Hollywood, impacting scores of groundbreaking films and tv shows, including Whale Rider, Little Miss Sunshine, Beginners and Transparent. Joan created the tools of The Technique through her own search for meaning in story, and evolved them by working closely on 84 features with first time or early career writer/directors. 83 of those features have been released. 74 came to Joan without finished scripts, stars, producers or financing. Altogether the projects have earned over 800 award nominations and 400 wins, including major category nods at the Oscars and Emmys.
ABOUT JOAN:
Writer/Director/Producer/Teacher Joan Scheckel is the internationally renowned creator of The Technique™, the most influential new approach to writing, directing and filmmaking craft in Hollywood today. Joan is known as the “director’s guru” and as a master teacher in the tradition of Stanislavski, Strasberg and Joseph Campbell. Joan’s groundbreaking work challenges our cultural addiction to conflict and calls for a new storytelling paradigm that embraces feeling and meaning. Her innovations inform every level of the mise en scène, from writing, acting, directing to visual style.
Joan trains and then teams with directors to develop, workshop, write, direct and produce material from the ground up. Including such iconic hits as: Niki Caro’s Oscar Nominee Whale Rider, Dayton/Faris’s Oscar Winner Little Miss Sunshine, Mike Mills’s Oscar Winner Beginners (Executive Producer), Joey Soloway’s Emmy Winner Transparent (Consulting Producer), Joey Soloway’s Golden Globe Nominee I Love Dick (Producer), Sarah Shapiro’s Peabody Award Winner UnREAL, Rupert Sanders’s Oscar Nominee Snow White and the Huntsman, Nick Jarecki’s Golden Globe Nominee Arbitrage, Sacha Gervasi’s Spirit Award Winner Anvil Story of Anvil, Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, Mark Romanek’s One Hour Photo, Miranda July’s The Future, (New Yorker Magazine Best of the Decade List), Liz Feldman’s Emmy Award Winner, Dead To Me, Anna Winger and Alexa Karolinski’s Unorthodox and many, many more.
Joan was also co-writer on The Vintner’s Luck, directed by Niki Caro (Mulan), starring Jeremie Renier and Vera Farmiga.
Overall, Joan has worked on 84 feature films and television shows. 74 came to her with unfinished drafts, no financing or cast, and with first time or early-career writer/directors at the helm. 83 have been released, earning over 800 nominations and 406 wins including major category nods at the Oscars, Spirits, Golden Globes, Sundance, Cannes, Bafta, Emmys, PGA, DGA etc.
Joan has been profiled and featured for her work and her influence on a generation of directors in many articles and publications such as: NYTimes, LA Times, Marie Claire, Deadline, Indiewire, Vox, IF Magazine, California Sunday, The New York Observer and more.
Now Joan is poised to create a slate of books, films, labs (live and online), podcasts, and apps.