Manifesto

Supported by the constant flow of new findings generated by its StoryTANK and based on its years of experience, Le Groupe Ouest has become the number 1 place in Europe dedicated to script development in residency, creating a unique methodological approach, deeply humanistic in its vision and principles, where interaction and debriefing between consultants is constant.

• Using “oral storytelling“ and video as rewriting tools ahead of actual rewrites, thus helping to gain considerable time, every draft representing a danger to loose oneself and feel stuck in wrong tracks.
• Using “Pre-Writing“ tools developed to help the writer dig and test ideas prior to actual writing phases.
• Giving writers a common theoretical and practical tool-box, giving keys and establishing a common language within the sessions, as well as increasing the filmmakers’ autonomy and objective thinking inside the development process.
• Small groups facilitating quality of brainstorming as well as intimate coaching in order to explore the singularity, strength and potentiality of each project and filmmaker.
• Creating a both collective and individual approach for coaching and training.
• Combining the tutors’ analysis: each participant has a main tutor throughout the training. But in each one of the 3 workshops, he/ she will additionally get consistant feedback from invited tutors. This way we ensure a continuity in the follow up of the evolution of the project while avoiding the participant to be trapped in the point of view of one particular tutor, and keeping an open brainstorming process.
• Generating debriefing moments between tutors prior and after each working sessions to generate the best strategical approach to help the development process (debrief sessions take place every day during the workshop under the supervision of the Artistic director and the Head of studies).