Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
Assembling the scene notebook 2
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Assembling the scene notebook 2
Overview
“I will continue to teach you how to work your scene notebook so that you can make your own.”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Assembling the scene notebook 2, 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 I will show you in my scene notebook the 5 scenes that I prepared. How they have materialized from an idea, going through the conflict matrix, until I reach my scene notebook, that as you know, I use to fill it symbols, words, drawings, whatever a memory catch to never forget what the design of the five movements of each scene is. Here I have the 5 schematic scenes and I will show you each one. The first, I put a star on it, it is an index scene, a very important scene. I will tell you what it is about. It is the scene of the protagonist, who is the police, who...”
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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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