Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
Presentation
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you a little about myself and I will tell you how my becoming a screenwriter was a strange route; I could say that it was not even planned, but that it has allowed me to be able to tell stories in all formats, from feature films to series, and from novels to audio fiction podcasts.”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences. Learn the theory and technique behind writing an effective fictional scene for your script.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, welcome to this Domestika course. My name is Julio Rojas. I am a screenwriter and writer. I am Chilean and I live in Santiago de Chile. My training was totally self-taught. I studied dentistry first, nothing to do with narrative. While patients tell stories, it was not my forte to listen to stories, tell stories and generate stories, but he had a cinema near the house since he was a child. Like every child, I loved the movies, and I had the opportunity to enter the cinema for free for a long time, from a very young age. There I became interested in stories, I began to ge...”
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Course summary for: Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
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Areas
Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, Storytelling, TV, Writing
Julio Rojas
A course by Julio Rojas
Julio Rojas is a dentist by trade, which may be hard to believe given that he has devoted over two decades of his life to screenplays and writing. He has worked as a professor at major universities and film schools like the EICTV in Cuba, where he's been teaching the advanced screenwriting course for fifteen years. Julio has also worked as a fiction content director for free-to-air TV channels and audiovisual producers.
His most prominent work includes feature films like Sábado(Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award), La vida de los peces (2012 Goya winner), and La memoria del agua (selected for Venice Days at the 2016 Venice Film Festival). In addition to screenplays, Julio just published his first novel, a historical crime thriller titled El visitante extranjero (The Foreign Visitor), through Penguin Random House.
His Spotify podcast series CASO 32, listed by The New York Times as one of the best audio fictions of 2020, has been remade in various languages as well as categorized as the most-listened-to Spanish-language audio fiction in the world.
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