Creating Film Projects from Scratch

The Director's Dossier

A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer

Filmmaker and Photographer. Tulsa, Chile.
Joined April 2021
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About the video: The Director's Dossier

Overview

“In this lesson, I will teach you how to format the address file. For this we will use editing software.”

In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: The Director's Dossier, 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

“address folder In this lesson we will bring our address folder to life. Once you have all your elements written, from the original idea, tagline, storyline, motivation, world and environment, characters and audiovisual proposal, and also have your images selected from your mood board, let's open an editing software. In my case it works a lot for me to work in PowerPoint. Before designing your address folder, it is important to understand the concepts that will be contained in your portfolio. For that we have a kind of index, order of ideas or order of concepts. Starting with the cover, your...”

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Course summary for: Creating Film Projects from Scratch

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (49)
  • 1863 students
  • 4 units
  • 13 lessons (2h 15m)
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    Photography & Video
  • Areas

    Creative Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script

Sergio Castro San Martin

Sergio Castro San Martin
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin

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Filmmaker and Photographer

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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Creating Film Projects from Scratch. Photography, and Video course by Sergio Castro San Martin

Creating Film Projects from Scratch

A course by Sergio Castro San Martin
Filmmaker and Photographer. Tulsa, Chile.
Joined April 2021
  • 100% positive reviews (49)
  • 1,863 students