Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
Influences
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Science is for me a great source of stories and that I nurture from sources as diverse as the natural history of Pliny, passing the science fiction novels of Philip K. Dick to filmmakers of today. I invite you to review my main influences!”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“Influences My influences have almost nothing to do with the cinema, but with the world of science, with the world of physics, with the world of science fiction, which is my favorite genre. For example, from Borges I took my love for encyclopedias and I came to the first encyclopedist and storyteller, Pliny the Elder, with his great "Natural History". It's the first big book I bought as a child and that was a great reference, because Plinio not only counted or elucidated and understood the world with an encyclopedia of antiquity, but also fantasized a lot and mixed many things with his imagi...”
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Course summary for: Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
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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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