Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
Scene elements: the character
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Scene elements: the character
Overview
“The character's path within the scene could be represented as a journey; one that can be represented as a line of action that crosses time and space. In this lesson, I will delve into this fundamental element and teach you how to combine it with one of the tools that I use: the conflict matrix, with which you will begin little by little to shape the final project of the course. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Scene elements: the character, 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
“Scene elements: the character In this lesson, we will see everything about the character and the scene. Understand the dynamics of the character, their movements and trajectory it is vital to compose the narrative unit. Let's see. When talking about the character and the scene, we talk that the character conflicts with something and, to understand the structure of the conflict in the scene, you need to understand the character's goal. We have a character who goes here and has a goal. Generally your goal is potential future pleasures. For example, this character may have such diverse future ...”
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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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