The Lost Art Of Story - Adam Skelter [FULL INTERVIEW]

[@flamesphere3144]

Bring back the channel! I miss it! The most influential take on story and structure for me

[@LegendaryDreyden]

you guys literally post the best film content for aspiring film makers. thank you so much!

[@cutwir3317]

The most connected person in writing I’ve ever heard.Changed my life

[@filmcourage]

Adam is brilliant. Love that you discovered this interview.

[@savageminded]

WHOA, this man gets it! Amazing interview and perspective. Film courage is one of the best resources for independent writers. After binge watching many of these brilliantly done interviews featuring insanely dope creators [and buying ALL their books], I’ve garnered a MUCH more efficient sense of the process to perfect the craft. This content matters greatly because many of us newbies want the best direction but aren’t always familiar with how to find it. You all provide that. So much info, so much gold. THANK YOU for taking the time and energy to produce this channel and my goal is to be featured on an interview VERY soon😉💪🏽. (P.S. The Houston Howard Multi-Platform, Trans Media business model for indie works interview was PRICELESS!!!👍🏽)

[@fishinabagC3]

Thanks for uploading the full interview! I could listen to this guy talk about anything.

[@filmcourage]

Adam is brilliant. Thanks for watching!

[@FreddyRodrigues66films]

I don't know how to even begin what I want to say about Adam Skelter. I guess I should start with Thank you! I watched his videos series and followed his lessons when writing my second short film Malabar. Three years later, after completing production on Malabar, HBO acquired it. Everyone tells you short films don't sell, well Malabar is currently airing on all of HBO's platforms including streaming services like HBOGO and HBONOW. Adam had everything to do with Malabar's success. I followed his lessons and got results. Now, I'm writing my first feature and revisiting his video series years later. I also bought his book The Art of Story on Amazon. This guy is amazing. His information is clear, entertaining, and accessible and has a great presence and command on video. I'd attend his classes and workshops any day. He's the shit!

[@theartofstory9487]

WOW! BIG CONGRATS FREDDY! I'm so flattered and honored to have been a small part of your creative process! Let me know when you're in LA and we should grab a drink some time :)

[@FreddyRodrigues66films]

@@theartofstory9487 Will do! Same goes for you. If you're planning on visiting Miami drop me note. Drinks are on me. I'm on instragram, FB, linkedin under the same name and company name. Thanks again!

[@OurRealLifeEdVenture]

I found the art of story before this interview. Saw Adams diagram and thought "man, I gotta check out the originator of this idea, not just this anonymous YTC that's just presenting his idea.." Didn't realize he was DA MAN! I wrote one script, almost by accident, and was completely intuitive. Now I've started working with Adam's 24pp structure, and I'm getting so much more depth and understanding.. His video series the anatomy of chaos, has taught me so much, and as someone who has much more of a background in philosophy and mysticism than screenwriting, his knowledge and ability to convey the information so perfectly and clearly is not only invaluable, but unprecedented and unique in the fimaking youtube sphere, (IMHO, to. My knowledge) Thank you Adam Skelter and film courage, you've hugely impacted my life.

[@hnttakata713]

Adam; you are awesome. I could listen to you tell stories and share your wisdom, and brilliance all day long. Awesome. Thank you.

[@ryanhill5137]

3:58 Anatomy of Chaos: The way story provides understanding for our lives; narratives illuminate values and values illustrate meaning as we navigate society

[@kh75012]

Thank you so much ! I had a great time, learned a lot, Adam is generous, enthused extremely cultured which makes it so interesting to listen to him. He provides writers with brilliant and crucial tools. He shines like a child.

[@Harshitsinghtomar18]

I hope your channel always remain underrated because your content is not everybody's piece of cake 😊

[@michaelcotter6094]

So glad this is finally up in full. Adam is great. Thanks!

[@filmcourage]

It took us a little while. Lot of work to finish this one. We're really glad to have it up.

[@ComicPower]

I really need to block some time out to watch this whole thing because I enjoy what he is sharing.

[@porcupineracer2]

This was a really great interview. And Mr. Skelter had a lot of helpful wisdom to share. I actually had to pause it and start taking notes. In particular, I liked how he viewed stories and their moral value -- that they must have a survival value. I also liked how he defined the world they venture into as a dangerous world they must learn to adapt to. This reminded me of the Unknown World of the traditional Act Two of the three act structure. Putting these two things together helped me see how I should put a story I am working on together.

[@EmpiireYT]

Another gem. Can’t express enough how grateful I am for this channel. Indispensable content! ❤️❤️

[@abhinavthakur4556]

I also tend to break things down to basic definitions to get better understanding of them. Adam does the same but at a much deeper level. He motivates me to understand things more and on a greater level. Great guy. Great video 🌟🌟

[@verseOneFederation]

Interviewer is always very good! Bravo!

[@andersonfilmandsound]

I love the tonal interaction between the both of you in this one. Feels like you were aligned energetically.. which makes it for us as your students, friends and audience. Information is much more likely to connect and land in this kind of environment though it does so in other environments also so...yeah.. Bonus aspect it was calming on the nervous system. Thank you both!

[@RossAllaire]

Adam is so good! Glad to final get to watch the full interview. :)

[@shaiksulthan7027]

This guy's view on film and story and art are correct. I second his analysis. Thank you.

[@RogerBStillz]

Very insightful interview. Thank you

[@sub-til]

Doc in back to the future is the MENTOR.

[@chrisoliver3642]

You could even argue that he's an anti-mentor (like an anti-hero).

[@ryannixon4138]

Oh wow cool, I like writing as well as animation. Great video by the way, helps in ways I cant express!

[@constantdoodle32]

Man... I can't find this dudes book anywhere

[@sandnin1]

What happened to his channel and his great Playlist on storytelling?

[@benjaminsoto5023]

I think he took it down when he released his book. I miss the videos though.

[@j-new6278]

Yo man, this is really good, thank you

[@funnyciscoleon]

Love this channel.

[@jonathantrauner3742]

Film gives us a lens into the human spirit like nothing else can." Kimberly Steward. "You should not dream your film. You should make it." Mr. Steven Spielberg. Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. Henry Ward Beecher. "The only limit is the one you set yourself." - Felix Baumgartner Manhattan New York City. February 2019. Twenty seven year old, Josephine Warren, an courageous and fearless arts educator, disability legal justice activist, and a future film director and film producer, reflects on her wonderful childhood growing up in Manhattan New York City and coping with mild High Functioning Aspergers Autism Syndrome and coping with her getting bullied, (through her love of theater and film screenwriting). Josephine, 27, the eldest of four children; Sandra Warren, 25, Michaela Warren, 25, and Josephine’s only and youngest brother Reed Warren, lived in Manhattan New York City her whole life. In late February 2019, Josephine Warren, expressed to her siblings and her parents, just how much she wanted to attend film directing graduate school at the University of Southern California Los Angeles, instead of serving in the US Navy Seals as a military aviation technician. Toward the middle of her life, her bullies and her parents Trisha Warren and Alex Warren; former Navy Seal graduates keep on, hiding her film school applications in their office drawers, as, they fear that Josephine, their daughter, would fail to follow in her parents footsteps of becoming a Navy Seal West Point Academy soldier; as that is what the Warren family legacy is defined as, according to Josephine Warren. Even though Josephine lived with Aspergers her entire life, Josephine would use her adversity and failures, as foundation blocks, toward her evolving into one of the most inspiring film directors in New York City and global history; At the end of her film, Josephine Warren, receives the most inspiring reward of her life, and she ends up inspiring, tens of billions of lives, through her artistic voice and loving and gratitude giving heart and human existence alone. At the film’s end, Vincent Everett, an doctoral graduate student of the University of Phoenix and a Five Star US Navy Seals Admiral at Phoenix’s “SEALS RECRUIT ACADEMY” in Arizona, falls romantically in love with Josephine, in Baka Jerusalem Israel after reading her film script for Superheroic and shows his soldiers unit, that the human race can inspire, even in adversity and obstacles. Superheroic, A Mr. Jonathan Trauner Directed Film. (I have shared my Superheroic film script to the Scarlet Lens Film Production Company of Toronto Canada and to Mrs. Leah Rifkin; Renowned Film Director and Author of Beyond The Directors Chair; She said that my story has the power to inspire the Oscar Academy of Beverly Hills California. Even though I have Aspergers, I have completed my Superheroic film story, and I work for Mobileye Intel in Jerusalem for their Computer Algorithms Correction Department. I also shared my Superheroic film story with Nancy Spielberg and she was so inspired by my story, characters, and Superheroic film script message; My dream is to win an Oscar Academy Award in Los Angeles California in real life. My mission as a film director and storyteller is to inspire the world through storytelling, love, gratitude, and heart.

[@howardkoor2796]

Another great interview

[@ExistNNature]

I just connected with Adam on YT.

[@anthonystitt7015]

The interviewer is outstanding. I really like her.

[@filmcourage]

Thanks Anthony!

[@ryannixon4138]

OMG I LOVED ANATOMY OF CHAOS. Huh I had my caps on... not that Im apologizing for it XD Edit: yes anatomy of chaos does sadly have a lack of views.

[@delyseonduty]

I cannot find Adam Skelters book to purchase anywhere. Will he be doing a reprint anytime in the near future?

[@tvCARLINEA]

That’s the best description of how my brain works 😫😫😫

[@Backhand77]

What's the 24 plot point? Thanks

[@mmafighterdp3263]

Does anyone know if Adam is still well? His whole youtube Channel and online presence slowly started vanishing and is now completely gone. Wanted to rewatch some of his videos, but it's all gone and even his Website seems abandoned.

[@vonleevl]

I know I was looking for him recently, his videos on dialogue, scenes and Hereditary was very good. Can't find the guy.

[@dreamcatcher5502]

Who is Ron Meade he refers to as the guy that told him about the 24 point structure ? This video seems to depend on that structure but i can't find it anywhere 🤷‍♀️

[@howardkoor2796]

Adam is fascinating

[@mychalsimmons4177]

WOW Karen Awesome Interview! Damn!

[@filmcourage]

Adam is brilliant.

[@nh8444]

All the links to connect with him are broken or don’t exist. Is he ok? Did something happen to him? I can’t find anything on him after 2022.

[@Snooze_Addict]

Who is the interviewer? I feel like I've heard (seen) her before. She sounds familiar!

[@diegooland1261]

I think it's Princess Leia, or Michelle Obama, I'm not sure.

[@dreamcatcher5502]

I have searched and searched but I can't find Adam's KZbin channel. Can anyone help me find it ? Thanks

[@danielburns1556]

Informative and helpful video and people, thanks. I am having difficulty grasping the concept of the midpoint - specifically it's function. Is it an external event that causes the second half of the story, to go in a different direction from the first half (I know each act/section is a different direction), but I hear or read that the midpoint should have the character realize something about themselves, and introspection that makes them want to change - but the problem I'm having is that that description also sounds like the second plot point to me, where after the 75 percent when all is lost/dark moment happens, the character retreats into themselves or despairs or can't figure out what to do next because the dark night of the soul is horrible, then from there, they realize something about themselves/have an epiphany that they need to change in order to achieve their goal. Which sounds like the midpoint where something happens and then they have to change. please help! I get the needs of the story will mean these plot points are different, but I'm still confused as to what is supposed to go where, what are the functions of each plot point - and from there I can figure out what the character does.

[@filmcourage]

Hi Daniel, not sure if we have an answer but here is one video about the midpoint - kzbin.info/www/bejne/naTYZ2NvqbRjars

[@olivergilpin]

Time stamps?

[@cosmicdownload2025]

can you post the link to his youtube channel?

[@filmcourage]

Hi Teg, check the description

[@jonjenkins]

1.00.45 - Doc to me is the archetypal ‘Old Wiseman/ Magician’ - Surprised that Adam with his knowledge & understanding of Jung didn’t pick up on that

[@phototommyfive]

I like the way he examines story structure, but I find his definition of morality abhorrent. Not only does it ring of Darwinian ruthlessness which is the basis of many 20th century murderous ideologies, the very idea that morality "is the rules of survival" makes permissible, indeed justifies, any act no matter how heinous. I think this man is incredibly intelligent, but he clearly ascribes to the post-modern idea that telling each other stories creates one's reality. This in my view is an untenable intellectual position and a kind of dead-end nihilism. I'm almost finished listening to this entire interview, and I am astonished time and again how much I agree with Skelter (great surname btw) despite the fact that we occupy two very different world views. His incisive intellect and thorough examination of story is impressive.

[@phototommyfive]

Needless to say, I wholeheartedly disagree with your reply, from your premises to the logical chain your employ. But that’s fine by me. There’s no need on my part for everyone to walk in lock step with one another.

[@leegibbs3982]

I thought the light the cigarette for your child and lung cancer comment regardless of the point he was trying to make was immature and tasteless. But the rest was fantastic.

[@justinfalzon6854]

Have you folks seen his channel, The Art of Story ? Its. The. Shit.

[@S.reekanth.S]

🚶

[@dragonsmith9012]

I wish I could buy his book but it's like 700 bucks now. Hahaha. What?

[@christianmogildea4963]

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[@zhidong5780]

Niceeeeeee

[@justsaybobby]

Woof 🐾