Creating Film Projects from Scratch
The Genesis of an Idea
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: The Genesis of an Idea
Overview
“How do I get inspired to achieve an idea? Where to look for ideas? What are the keys to find them? How to keep them towards the genesis of a project? In this lesson, I will help you find these clues to walk towards what are the bases of your story and to direct it.”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: The Genesis of an Idea, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Film Projects from Scratch. Develop an original movie idea and put together a director’s folder for a fiction film, documentary, short film, or TV series.
Partial transcription of the video
“The genesis of an idea In this lesson we will talk about the genesis of an idea, how to inspire us to come up with an original idea, where to look for them, how to look for them. Before that, I would like to tell you what we will be doing in this course. We are going to work on an original idea and we are going to make it grow. Let's have a plot synopsis. We are going to work the world and our characters. We're going to write those worlds and those characters. Let's work a letter of motivation, very important letter to understand why you want to tell about this project or why you want to te...”
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Course summary for: Creating Film Projects from Scratch
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Category
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Areas
Creative Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script
Sergio Castro San Martin
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin
Sergio Castro San Martín is a photographer and filmmaker. He graduated as a director from the Escuela de Cine de Chile with his thesis film Paseo, which won Best Chilean Film at the 2009 Sanfic.
His next major breakthrough came on the heels of his 2015 feature-length film La Mujer de Barro, which propelled him to the international stage at Berlinale and the San Sebastián International Film Festival. In 2019, he directed the full-length documentary El Negro and joined forces with Lucía Puenzo to codirect his first fiction drama series La Jauría, featured on Amazon Prime. In 2022, he codirected the first Chilean TV show for Disney alongside Pepa San Martín and directed the fiction film El Gol Más Triste, as well as his first international film Il Cileno.
He's been a member of the Chilean Film Academy since 2020 and is also a film professor at several universities where he teaches film production, editing, scriptwriting, and title design.
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