Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences

Script: Writing scenes

“You have reached the end of the course and I hope it has been useful for you to face story writing, whatever format you choose. For your final project, I recommend choosing a moment from a story that you already have devised, so that you can write your scenes and sequences. Take advantage of the additional resources that I left you to download; They are tools that will be very useful for your writing process. Before starting your final project, I recommend having all your diagrams and templates in one place before writing the scenes. It can be a notebook or a digital template, the important thing is that you have it close to consult it whenever you want. I share an example of how I would like to see your final project: The conflict Develop the conflict using the conflict matrix. Don't forget to explore all the clash combinations between the elements. The conflict is there, you just have to discover it.

The scenes Develop the scene notebook with drawings, diagrams, text; be free to act out what happens in each of the five movements. Dissociation It performs the dissociation looking for new crosses and recombinations. This will serve to give originality and your particular signature to your scenes. Your five scenes and the sequence Write your five scenes and your sequence. I recommend you close your eyes, visualize the scene, and think in images rather than words. When working on the dialogues, be concerned that they do not narrate the same as the image, and that they are not obvious; that give space for the subtext. Make the final touches to your story Do the rewrite and finish your work, but let it sit for a couple of days and go back to reading it as if you just wrote it. This exercise will help you take distance to correct what can be improved. Please do not forget to share your final project, in addition to your finished story, I ask you not to forget to share the steps that I left as an example, in this way I will be able to better see your entire process and I will be able to give you more adequate feedback. I hope this trip together has been a good experience for you! I encourage you to use the forum to ask questions and show your work, but also to give advice to other students. If they receive more opinions besides mine, it will surely enrich the process and you will be able to see and know different points of view. On this journey, we can all help each other. See you on the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project We reached the end of the course and I hope it was useful to write your stories, whatever format you choose. In the course we saw the types of scenes, the elements that constitute them and how they relate to each other. Then I showed you my process to download all the information in different tools. First to a conflict matrix, then to a scene notebook and then to a harmonic dissociation matrix. All this to finally write the scenes and sequences in a professional format. For your final project, use a piece of a story that you already have in mind and use the tools I shared with...”

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Course summary for: Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences

• Level: Beginner
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  Photography & Video, Writing

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