Introduction to Video Testimonials
Dramatic elements to edit
A course by David R. Romay , Director, producer and writer
About the video: Dramatic elements to edit
Overview
“In this lesson, we will identify the emotive elements of our material, so that they help the character create empathy with the audience, that is, tell a good story. ”
In this video lesson David R. Romay addresses the topic: Dramatic elements to edit, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Video Testimonials. Discover how to find great characters in true stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] In the previous units we review everything that is pre production and production and this gives us the elements and ingredients to get to this place and this moment that is the edition. In this first lesson what we have, what they I want to talk is what is necessary to tell this history and what are the elements that make us that the piece is emotional or that makes the piece connect. The most important thing is always to create empathy with the viewer, that when they see the piece they feel that they connect with this character one way or another, the more human they feel them, eas...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Video Testimonials
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Areas
Audiovisual Production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Script, Storytelling, TV, Video, Video Editing
David R. Romay
A course by David R. Romay
His work as a scriptwriter and director, which he has been developing for more than a decade, has led him to work for commercial brands such as Coca-Cola, HSBC, Procter & Gamble, Motorola, Pfizer, Volkswagen or Televisa, among others. However, it is in the documentary field in which David R. Romay moves with greater ease. In 2005, he produced the documentary Toro Negro , which won numerous awards at international film festivals such as San Sebastian, Toronto, Rotterdam, Havana and Cannes.
In addition, he has directed and written documentaries for Clio TV (the producer of the historian Enrique Krauze) and, in 2010, he wrote and directed several chapters of the documentary series Heroes de Carne y Hueso , premiered on the occasion of the bicentennial of the independence. In 2012 he co-directed and co-wrote the documentary Oro, the day that everything changed , a film that tells the story of the Olympic football team, which won the gold medal in London 2012 and, it has become one of the most watched sports documentaries in Mexico.
In the field of fiction, he highlights A solas , a short film premiered at the 2009 Morelia Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award at Short Shorts México. And the recent premiere, at the Shanghai Film Festival 2018, of his first feature film: Behind the Mountain .
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