Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
The scene notebook
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: The scene notebook
Overview
“I will show you one of the tools that I use in my work as a screenwriter and writer: the scene notebook, a document that will help you design and compose each scene. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: The scene notebook, 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
“The scene notebook Now we will see a method to build scenes before writing them. Many times people write scenes from a blank page. Obviously any method works if it works for you and nobody has the truth about the creative process. I'll show you how I do it what is my system to write scenes, which is a technique that I call the scene notebook where all the elements I need to write first I design them on paper, on a computer or on a platform that is not script writing software. It is the process prior to writing the scene. Just as nobody conceives writing a script from scratch without having ...”
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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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