Creating Film Projects from Scratch
First Plot Synopsis
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: First Plot Synopsis
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to build your story by ordering certain narrative concepts that will help you generate a global vision of your project.”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: First Plot Synopsis, 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
“First plot synopsis In this lesson we will further grow our original idea towards our characters and where they unfold. For that, we will build a plot synopsis, which is a storyline, but more extensive, where we can find those worlds of supporting characters or co-stars that converge in the main story of this hermit named Miguel. To begin with, we write down our protagonists. Miguel, our protagonist, who is married to Elizabeth, our co-star. At this moment another element appears, which is Ana, daughter of Miguel and Isabel. Ana, in turn, has a very important element in our story, which is ...”
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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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