Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
Writing scenes
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Writing scenes
Overview
“For many, the image of the blank page can be terrifying, and for that there are the tools that I taught you! Now I will share with you my creative and technical process to write the scenes that you have been working on in the course. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Writing scenes, 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
“Writing scenes In this lesson I will take the scenes that I worked on in the scene notebook and I'll turn them into scenes written in standard script software. As we saw before, I already started to write one of the scenes of my work. Where did I get that scene from? I took it out of the scene notebook that I have here. Here I have the 5 defined movements of the scene that I will write. If you notice, I ended up describing a police found in a hotel room that he has a very suspicious corpse. She looks at key places in the hotel room and finally ends up inside the bathroom, where there is a b...”
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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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