Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
The conflict on the scene
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: The conflict on the scene
Overview
“A narrative unit usually presents one of the three elements (characters, implants, physical universe) in a clash of forces. "Something against something" seems to be the DNA of every scene. In this lesson, I will teach you the importance of developing conflict and show you some examples of how to work it. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: The conflict on the scene, 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 conflict on the scene We have reached the center and the heart of the scene, which is the conflict. Conflict is the clash of two antagonistic forces that generate a new condition. The conflict has an anatomy, join me to examine it. To understand conflict, you must first understand that there is a character who requires or wants something. That character generates an invisible line of desire toward a theoretical point called the future potential pleasure point. For example, you want to go on vacation. The future potential pleasure point will be being on vacation. To get that you need to ...”
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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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