Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
Working the modulators of the scene
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Working the modulators of the scene
Overview
“You will learn how to review some elements that can alter the scenes to cause effects on the viewer, such as emotion, movement, resistances, circulations, and time installers. If you are building scenes, you should know them! ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Working the modulators of 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
“Working the modulators of the scene We already have our scenes defined in their movements and in their content. Now there are certain items to check they can make the same scene with the same movement and the same content dramatically change the viewer's perception. I don't know if it happened to them that sometimes you see a scene and it seems longer than it should be, or sometimes a scene flies by in subjective perception of us as spectators. There are moments in our life that seem to pass very long and relaxed, and there are moments that pass very quickly. Why does that happen? What happ...”
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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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