Creating Film Projects from Scratch
Transformation of the Original Idea
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Transformation of the Original Idea
Overview
“Your original idea is the beginning of all the elements of direction that will lead you to create and design your portfolio. I'll show you in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: Transformation of the Original 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
“Transformation of the original idea In this lesson I will teach you how to guide your original idea. Let us remember that from an original idea I can release colors, styles, atmospheres, characters and a very diverse world. In my case I found a photograph some years ago, that caught my attention. It was the photograph of a hermit, a man from the mountains disappeared more than 20 years ago. It caught my attention when I saw this photo. and I began to discover many things from this image. For example, the length of this man's beard Could you tell me how old you were? the place where he was, ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Film Projects from Scratch
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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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