Feedback from participants at the film festival "Independent Days Karlsruhe"

Great!

Very professional and very well prepared.

Well planned, wholeheartedly presented und taught. The examples helped a lot.

An amazing workshop, with a very well prepared lecturer. Lots of easily accessible and applicable examples. A comprehensive presentation of the approach.

An enjoyable lecture about an interesting topic.

Feedback from the participants of the weekend workshop at Filmarche Berlin (private film school)

Thanks for this eye opener into my own project! Now I can see it with completely new eyes. Thanks for switching on a few light bulbs!

An interesting method that sharpened my understanding of scripts and films. The workshop clearly and emotively conveyed the content, which has now become an indispensable aspect of my work.

An enormous enrichment.

Writers, directors, DOPs, editors, - in fact everyone can apply the mood cue approach in order to better create films loaded with mood and emotive appeal.

Very professional. The workshop gave me a new perspective on the medium of film and its components.

Well prepared. Intense, demanding, and highly reflective.

Relaxed atmosphere. Thanks a lot!!

Feedback from the participants of the seminar at Master School Drehbuch (Academy of Script Development) about the mood cue approach

A very comprehensive and practical application and explanation of Smith' approach.

An overall successful attempt of a new approach to film analysis.

Interesting aspects, partially new, partially put into a new framework. Good film examples.

I especially liked the detailed manuscript which was provided. I will use it to work with it for quite a while.

An interesting overview of the topic of emotion. A summary of partially known aspects.

It is very rewarding to see a script consultant follow the rules of storytelling himself when teaching it.

Feedback from the participants of the 2,5 day seminar  about 'Structure in Classical Narration"  within the training program for writing for film and television (cooperation of Master School Drehbuch Berlin and TV Academy Berlin)

The seminar was inspiring and methodologically impressive.

The seminar was very stimulating and has helped me to have a more structural look on my own story.

What to put when in the story to make the character more concrete? The seminar unit "structure" has answered basic questions. The content was presented in a clear and stimulating manner.

General impression: positive.

Nicely structured. The topic was conveyed vividly and a high participation of the participants was possible and enriching.

The topics were presented clearly and without meandering. Through well-chosen examples a long-term effect of the taught content is possible.

The seminar  was well structured and the diversified methods of
teaching (lecture, writing exercise, group work, slide show,
discussion) did not allow any boredom.

I found the complex topic of "structure" was explained very well and put in a nutshell. I received a huge insight through this introduction on what to build further now independently. Basic questions were answered.

I found the content of the seminar appealing and inspiring.

I especially liked the central questions of each topics. I hope that I can apply them again and again when I will be writing - in order to get input for material and structure.

The subject matter was taught well.

Without the tools given to me I was wafting through my three acts. I now believe that the structure taught will help me to build my story.