By Vadim Sotnikov, prime-time TV series writer and creative producer
Learn to make more than beautiful videos: stories the industry actually wants
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Vadim Sotnikov
Screenwriter and creative producer. 15 years in the writers’ rooms of prime-time series
Doomsday · Let’s Go! · Guests from the Past · Deffchonki
Screenwriter and creative producer. 15 years in the writers’ rooms of prime-time series, both as a writer and as a team lead. Studied at Robert McKee’s “Story” seminar. Teaches the course himself
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Let’s Go!Top TV network · screenwriterMember of the writing team: season arcs, characters and dialogue for a comedy series
Guests from the PastTop TV network · screenwriterStorylines and dialogue for one of the highest-rated sitcoms on a top Russian TV network
DoomsdayKinopoisk · dramedyWriter on a Kinopoisk dramedy: season structure, tone and character development
DeffchonkiPrime-time sitcom · screenwriterMember of the writing team on a cult prime-time sitcom: characters, dialogue, comic beats
Be-Be-Bearsanimation · screenwriterWriter on a popular animated series for kids
First Squad comicSotnikov publishingPublisher of the original First Squad seriesShot 01
You want to take your generations to a professional level and work on big projects. The industry pays for stories built on the rules of dramaturgy
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You have ideas, but your characters don’t come alive and the plot won’t come together
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You create content with confidence but want the storytelling foundation the industry runs on
You’ll learn to come up with a story from one image, even when it feels like there’s nothing to work with
You’ll learn to look at a frame like an author: not “what’s in it” but which forces are fighting inside it. The hero wants something, circumstances get in the way, time is running out. A story is born from that collision
We teach you to see three levels: the shot, the scene, the story. In a scene the hero has a goal and an obstacle. In a story the hero makes a choice, pays the price and changes for good. That is what keeps the audience watching to the end
By the end of the course you have a finished logline: your 8 answers come together in one working sentence. Use it to make plot decisions and to pitch to a platform or a producer
These are the laws of dramaturgy, not tricks for a particular AI model: hero, desire, obstacle, stakes, choice, turning point. Tools change, the laws of storytelling stay. The course works like a cheat sheet: open the topic you need and check your story against it
Each lesson is one question for your story and one line of your worksheet. Tap to see what’s inside
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Go through the course on your own, at your own pace, and build the logline for your story
Price without discount 19,990 ₽−15%
Installments available
Take the course together with Vadim Sotnikov: interactive exercises in live sessions and breakdowns of assignments
Price without discount 39,990 ₽−15%
Installments available
Pay by MIR, Visa or Mastercard card, or via SBP. Access opens in your account right after payment and lasts 3 years · Payment, access and refunds
If your question isn’t on the list, message us on Telegram and we’ll answer personally
Message us on Telegramor email support@moonk-academy.ruThe course is designed for people with no screenwriting experience: every concept is introduced from scratch and applied to your own work right away
The course was made exactly for you. You’ll learn to turn your generations into complete stories
Each video takes about 40–60 minutes including practice. Two videos a week plus a live session on Sundays (on the “With Vadim Sotnikov’s review” plan). Easy to combine with a job
By MIR, Visa or Mastercard card, or via SBP. Access opens in your account as soon as the payment is confirmed, and a receipt under Russian law 54-FZ is sent to your email. Details are on the “Payment, access and refunds” page
Yes. If it’s not a fit, send a request to support: under the public offer we refund what you paid minus the sections already opened and actual costs, within 10 days and by the same method you paid with. And you can watch the first lesson for free: it opens after you sign up on the site and stays with you forever. Its assignment is already part of the course practice
You’ll get a fundamental understanding of how stories are built. Whatever you create, an animated film, a feature, an ad or a reel, the same laws of storytelling apply everywhere. Every story is built on them, and they never expire
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