Writing Fictional Scenes and Sequences
Rewriting and final considerations 1
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Rewriting and final considerations 1
Overview
“You are almost ready with the project, but the details are always essential. It is time to take your scenes and your written sequence to do the rewriting process. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Rewriting and final considerations 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
“Rewriting and final considerations In this lesson, we will talk about the interesting process of rewriting, which is the first step on a long road to get to the end of the finished scene. How many rewrites does your script need? Enough until you are satisfied with what you are reading. Sometimes it takes a couple of brush strokes of rewriting and the scene is ready. Sometimes the scene has to be rewritten many times. You have to be careful with both extremes. Sometimes scenes get rewritten so much that lose their meaning and become denatured. It is best to make a couple of corrections to th...”
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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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