#203. Book Club: Save the Cat! (Part 1)

If you’ve ever been in a film studies class, you might’ve heard of Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! billed as one of the ultimate guides to screenwriting. As students of storytelling, Mikey and Molly finally dive into this 2005 guide to see what’s still useful for storyboarding, visual storytelling strategy and how to keep an audience engaged throughout a film or presentation.Now, you may be wondering: “What can screenwriting teach us about presentations?”Since the dawn of cinema, screenwriting has become one of the most effective mediums of storytelling, creating universal classics that are quoted and referenced for years. If even a quarter of PowerPoint presentations had that kind of impact, we wouldn’t have the phrase “Death by PowerPoint.” Join Part 1 of this Book Club style episode to learn more! This is an episode for: film nerds, writers, presenters and anyone working with slideware. What’s in the Spice Cabinet? Read Save the Cat! For yourself: