Storytelling for Short Film Screenplays

Overview

“Here, you will learn what are the characteristics and the narrative style of the anti-structure and the minimalist structure. I will also explain about the importance of identifying your own style of narration.”

In this video lesson Lud Mônaco addresses the topic: Structure: the decisions of the characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Storytelling for Short Film Screenplays. Discover fundamental script-writing techniques to tell a story through narrative metaphors.

Partial transcription of the video

“Structure: the decisions of the characters. In this class, I’ll explain as the main decisions of the characters define the narrative structure of your story. You will also learn how the anti-structure works and the minimalist structure. The narrative structure is like the skeleton of the story. So, it is very important to build a solid foundation so that the narrative is sustained from beginning to end. There is nothing worse than giving our time to watch a movie, and in the end it ends up empty, because nothing relevant has reached us. So that this doesn't happen, the stroyteller must know...”

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Course summary for: Storytelling for Short Film Screenplays

• Level: Beginner
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• 3368 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 50m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video, Writing

• Areas

  Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, Storytelling, Writing