Creating Film Projects from Scratch
Tagline and Storyline
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin, Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
About the video: Tagline and Storyline
Overview
“After shaping your original idea, you have to outline it towards the creation of a summary of what your audiovisual work is: the tagline and the storyline.”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: Tagline and Storyline, 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
“In this lesson. we will expand our original idea into what is a tagline and a storyline. The tagline succinctly encapsulates the core ideas and essence of our narrative in a single sentence. For that. i'm going to ask you. to write between 10 to 20 concepts that summarize your original idea or that speak or refer to your original idea. We have the wildlife. We have another concept which is family. We have disobedience. We have trauma. the accident I envision natural elements like the desert or forest shaping my setting. providing a distinct backdrop for It's crucial to freely jot down all t...”
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Course summary for: Creating Film Projects from Scratch
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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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