Creating Film Projects from Scratch
Characters
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Characters
Overview
“In this lesson, it's time to design the characters and worlds of the story. This will help you complete the necessary resources for your dossier.”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: Characters, 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
“Characters In this new lesson we will see the description of characters. Having our tagline, storyline, plot synopsis and motivation letter, we can enter the description of our characters. The characters are those who move our story, they are the ones who move the plot of our movies. Many times the movies, the good movies, they are remembered for the characters, even more than for their plots. The characters, many times, and unlike our plots, they have a past, they live with that past. Tell the story of a character is to choose the most important moment of the life of each one of them. The ...”
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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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