Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
Specific sequences
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
Learn the theory and technique behind writing an effective fictional scene for your script
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 99% positive reviews (144)
- 3844 students
About the video: Specific sequences
Overview
“I will teach you the types of fundamental sequences, also called composite narrative units, and you will see how they are used to narrate most of the circumstances present in stories. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Specific sequences, 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
“Specific sequences Just as the scenes have a particular classification, the sequences also have classification that identifies them. The sequences are narrative units composed with continuity of action. As we see here, this continuity of action has ellipsis in between and finally generates a large block. One could say that a sequence is the succession of many linked scenes for a large conceptual block. As we saw, the sequence is a chain where there are continuities of different types of physical universes, different characters interact and there are cuts in between. The spatial sequence it ...”
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Course summary for: Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
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Category
Photography & Video, Writing -
Areas
Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, Storytelling, TV, Writing
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.
- 99% positive reviews (144)
- 3844 students
- 20 lessons (4h 26m)
- 26 additional resources (7 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
