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For the first-time ever, Hollywood story guru, Bobette Buster, will be making her storytelling secrets available to the SSN audience in an exclusive speaker series. “Deconstructing the Masters” will be the first event held on Tuesday, June 2 at FOX Studios. Click here for tickets and to learn more.
This past week, SSN featured an exclusive editorial run highlighting Bobette's story wisdom and Hollywood insight. In case you missed it, read the articles below for an invaluable lesson in story and sign up for her speaker series to learn more.
She grew up in small town Kentucky, listening to her grandparents and neighbors tell stories over pie and coffee. Years later, after completing the Peter Stark Producing program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and working as a creative executive for Ray Stark, Larry Gelbart, and Tony Scott, she parlayed her skills into teaching, lecturing, and becoming a story guru around the world, as well as at Disney, Pixar, Sony and Twentieth Century Fox.
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Hard as it may be to believe, a writer in Hollywood has better odds of starting in an NBA line-up than getting your project onto any screen (large or small) in today’s market. Those are pretty imposing numbers, so there are a few things writers should know as they venture forth. Bobette Buster has the info you’re looking for, exclusively in SSN.
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Box office word-of-mouth was the beginning of ‘power to the people’. Viral media began here with expressions like “What’s the buzz?” “What have you heard?” “What’s on your list?” In reality, no one truly trusts marketing, but they love to keep their ear to the street. And part of the “love of the street,” is the sense that you have your finger on the pulse. The
zeitgeist.
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Today, Hollywood’s addiction to technological wonder tantalizes the movie-goer: IMAX, 3D, Dolby 5.1/7.1, Atmos, Surround Sound, Blu-ray, 4K! Surely, all this – and more! – will entice you, the movie-goer, to fall in love again with the Big Screen immersive storytelling experience! Storytelling expert Bobette Buster’s series continues exclusively here at SSN.
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Steve Jobs was more than a great visionary whose Apple products have certainly made a “dent in our universe.” He deserved as much credit for his innovative leadership in ushering in a whole new Golden Era of cinema storytelling. After all, for a five million dollar purchase from George Lucas, Steve bought into Ed Catmull’s and John Lasseter’s vision for the storytelling potential of Pixar, when the market thought their only value was their Renderman hardware.
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