Why do audiences engage with films like 'The Wrestler', 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'The Conjuring', but you're struggling to make your screenplay as powerful as you know it can be?

How do you create genuine, emotional character development and change in your protagonist that isn't forced and obvious?

How did a father taking his son for a walk lead to the highest grossing animated film of all time?

The answers lie in the Cataclysm to the Crux.

If you're a student or aspiring screenwriter, bogged down in complicated theory with a story you're struggling to convey, then grab your copy of 'Finding Nemo' and work with this course as I show you a simple model that cuts to the very heart of a powerful story.

This is a brief course delivered in bite-size chunks, using Pixar's elegantly simple smash hit 'Finding Nemo' to demonstrate a model of character development and change for you to use in writing, developing and perfecting your screenplay.

This course has previously:

• Been taught in a Screenwriting Masters course to help colleagues develop their screenplays
• Published in a screenwriting magazine, edited by a Senior Advisor to the London Screenwriters' Festival

but has now been vastly improved, reworked and optimised for Udemy - and you!

This is a brief course:

• 1 hour of lectures
• 1 and a half hours of Finding Nemo
• Tests
• Worksheet + Summary Notes
• Numerous references and links in the Appendix

So you won't get bogged down in complicated theories...

You will:

• Look at your own protagonist
• Assess problems you may be facing
• Learn about scientific theories and how they change
• See how we can apply that to characters
• Understand how that culminates in our model
• Work through Finding Nemo
• Recap with conclusive lessons

Cue up your purchased or rented copy of Finding Nemo, and let's begin!