The Camera’s Eye Method™ is an image-first screenwriting and visual storytelling methodology developed by filmmaker, writer, and instructor Emily Robyn Clark and offered through Modern Mythic Productions, LLC, a creative production and consulting company.
Instead of beginning with structures and outlines, The Camera’s Eye Method™ teaches writers to engage first with the image. The screenplay becomes a testament to what the camera sees. This method allows the story to emerge through the dialect of the image, removing the writer’s need for control and allowing the story to emerge through observation and discovery.
Current Workshop Offerings:
Seeing Feelingly: A Visual Study in Screenwriting (4-Session Series)
Seeing Feelingly is a guided creative writing workshop for screenwriters, filmmakers, and creatives who
want to deepen their understanding of screenwriting and cinematic language.
As Gloucester says in King Lear, “I see it feelingly.” This idea is the workshop’s central tenet; an
invitation to perceive through both sight and feeling.
Using my original screenwriting methodology, The Camera’s Eye, I lead students through visual-first,
attentive discovery, then into the exploration of emotionally resonant memories, and finally into
synthesis with their writing. Over the course of four sessions, students will learn to see as a camera
sees: to watch, listen, and record with the five senses without judgment or projected meaning. They
will learn to rely on their own inner landscapes to supply emotional truth, and to integrate outer
observation with inner discovery to craft scenes that ring authentic, cinematic, and emotionally true.
In each session, we will look at carefully curated film excerpts, screenplays, short stories, and other
works that model visual storytelling, authentic dialogue, and emotional resonance.
Each new session will build upon the previous with observational assignments and additional
optional reading/viewing materials in-between class including Robert Bresson’s Notes on
Cinematography, Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, Andrei Tarkovsky’s films “Mirror” and “Stalker,”
and Chris Marker’s short film, “La Jetée.” In the final session, students will be invited to share their
photographs and screenplay scenes in a supportive, collaborative circle, and will be encouraged to
provide critiques of each other's work. I will also provide my own individual feedback on each piece.
This workshop is great for creatives who want to explore cinematic writing in a surprising, fresh
way.
Students will leave with:
· An observational journal
· A 60 still photography scene
· A written scene without dialogue
· A written scene with dialogue
· A repeatable process for creating emotionally resonant and visually attuned screenplays.
The Camera’s Eye Method™ is currently being developed as a book, workshop series, and teaching framework through Modern Mythic Productions, LLC.
Forthcoming Book
Emily is currently developing The Camera’s Eye, a book on image-first screenwriting and cinematic observation.
Rights Notice
The Camera’s Eye Method™, Seeing Feelingly: A Visual Study in Screenwriting™ and Modern Mythic Productions™ are trademarks of Modern Mythic Productions, LLC.
All written materials, workshop content, exercises, slides, teaching frameworks, and related materials are copyright © Modern Mythic Productions, LLC. All rights reserved.
Instead of beginning with structures and outlines, The Camera’s Eye Method™ teaches writers to engage first with the image. The screenplay becomes a testament to what the camera sees. This method allows the story to emerge through the dialect of the image, removing the writer’s need for control and allowing the story to emerge through observation and discovery.
Current Workshop Offerings:
Seeing Feelingly: A Visual Study in Screenwriting (4-Session Series)
Seeing Feelingly is a guided creative writing workshop for screenwriters, filmmakers, and creatives who
want to deepen their understanding of screenwriting and cinematic language.
As Gloucester says in King Lear, “I see it feelingly.” This idea is the workshop’s central tenet; an
invitation to perceive through both sight and feeling.
Using my original screenwriting methodology, The Camera’s Eye, I lead students through visual-first,
attentive discovery, then into the exploration of emotionally resonant memories, and finally into
synthesis with their writing. Over the course of four sessions, students will learn to see as a camera
sees: to watch, listen, and record with the five senses without judgment or projected meaning. They
will learn to rely on their own inner landscapes to supply emotional truth, and to integrate outer
observation with inner discovery to craft scenes that ring authentic, cinematic, and emotionally true.
In each session, we will look at carefully curated film excerpts, screenplays, short stories, and other
works that model visual storytelling, authentic dialogue, and emotional resonance.
Each new session will build upon the previous with observational assignments and additional
optional reading/viewing materials in-between class including Robert Bresson’s Notes on
Cinematography, Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, Andrei Tarkovsky’s films “Mirror” and “Stalker,”
and Chris Marker’s short film, “La Jetée.” In the final session, students will be invited to share their
photographs and screenplay scenes in a supportive, collaborative circle, and will be encouraged to
provide critiques of each other's work. I will also provide my own individual feedback on each piece.
This workshop is great for creatives who want to explore cinematic writing in a surprising, fresh
way.
Students will leave with:
· An observational journal
· A 60 still photography scene
· A written scene without dialogue
· A written scene with dialogue
· A repeatable process for creating emotionally resonant and visually attuned screenplays.
The Camera’s Eye Method™ is currently being developed as a book, workshop series, and teaching framework through Modern Mythic Productions, LLC.
Forthcoming Book
Emily is currently developing The Camera’s Eye, a book on image-first screenwriting and cinematic observation.
Rights Notice
The Camera’s Eye Method™, Seeing Feelingly: A Visual Study in Screenwriting™ and Modern Mythic Productions™ are trademarks of Modern Mythic Productions, LLC.
All written materials, workshop content, exercises, slides, teaching frameworks, and related materials are copyright © Modern Mythic Productions, LLC. All rights reserved.
Selected Presentations, Workshops & Teaching Engagements
Emily Robyn Clark has presented and led workshops in screenwriting, visual storytelling, poetry, creative writing, and interdisciplinary arts across Florida, Utah, and California. Her teaching and speaking engagements span writing conferences, film organizations, libraries, literary centers, public schools, arts programs, and community education spaces.
2026
Conference Presenter, Pre-Quills Writing Conference
Presented original sessions on visual storytelling and screenwriting, including The Camera’s Eye: A Visual Study in Screenwriting and Seeing Feelingly: A Visual Study in Screenwriting.
Magna Library Writing Group & Magna Library
Presented screenwriting and visual storytelling sessions for writers exploring image, structure, scene work, and cinematic language.
2024–2026
The Screenwriter’s Guild, Tallahassee, Florida
Led screenwriting workshops and classes including:
Intro to Screenwriting
Shapes of Stories
Through the Camera’s Eye
The Camera’s Eye Method™
These sessions explored screenwriting fundamentals, visual storytelling, nonlinear narrative structure, image-first writing, scene development, and intuitive approaches to cinematic craft.
2023
The Screenwriter’s Guild, Salt Lake City, Utah
From Script to Screen
A screenwriting and film development workshop focused on moving an idea from concept to screenplay to production.
2014–2017California Poets in the Schools, Ventura County and Los Angeles Area
Led poetry, visual writing, and interdisciplinary arts workshops for students and community participants throughout Ventura, North Hollywood, Ojai, and Los Angeles.
Original workshops and teaching engagements included:
Poetic Canvas: Exploring the Intersection Between Art and Poetry
Words on Tour: North Hollywood Walk & Workshop
From Script to Verse: Writing Poems with Visual Language
Ekphrastic Workshop: Writing Inspired by Visual Art
Children’s Celebration of the Arts, Ventura Charter School
School-based poetry workshops at Buena High School, Balboa Middle School, Foothills Technology School, and Elmhurst Elementary
