Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
Assembling the scene notebook 1
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Assembling the scene notebook 1
Overview
“You already know how to complete the scene notebook, so in this lesson I will show you my process to complete what is necessary to design the five scenes and a sequence for your final project. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Assembling the scene notebook 1, 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
“Assembling the scene notebook In this lesson, we will fill out the scene notebook and we will follow the method that I usually use. Basically the scene is about a police that you will go to see your child who is in custody with another family. That will work. I have the conflict matrix elements, where I have put the main character and I wonder what element of the scene it conflicts with. For example, I already know that she, seeing the toy that she brings to her child, which is a bow and arrow, found next to the police gun, will question if your career is as important as getting your child ...”
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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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