Storytelling for Short Film Screenplays

Overview

“Here, you will get to know the controlling idea of my final project and understand the importance of working on a central idea to develop your story. You will also learn the main elements that should be included when writing your logline and synopsis .”

In this video lesson Lud Mônaco addresses the topic: Controller idea, logline, synopsis and scale, 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

“Controlling idea, logline, synopsis and scale. In this lesson, I will explain what the controlling idea of a story is. You will also learn how to write a logline, a synopsis and also to develop the scale of its history. Before anything, I will show you how I work digitally and spend everything that I developed analogically for digital. At this stage, I use a simple Pages document, where I have the points to develop, which in the end become our creative portfolio. Are we going to start working on our creative portfolio? So, in our analog phase, we establish the basis of our story. The story ...”

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Course summary for: Storytelling for Short Film Screenplays

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (115)
• 3368 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 50m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video, Writing

• Areas

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