Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique
Improve outline and overcome creative blocks
A course by Daniel Tubau , Writer and Director
About the video: Improve outline and overcome creative blocks
Overview
“We already started to have an outline of steps. Now we are going to try to complete it from start to finish, even if we do it wrong, because now we are going to learn to do things wrong. By the end of this lesson you will have your first step outline, albeit a bad one!”
In this video lesson Daniel Tubau addresses the topic: Improve outline and overcome creative blocks, which is part of the Domestika online course: Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique. Learn to organize a script by mapping it out sequentially, and create audiovisual projects that captivate your audience.
Partial transcription of the video
“Improve outline and overcome creative blocks I will now show you how to proceed through the step outline and at the same time, how to overcome any creative block. I already have some chips in my step scheme, but sometimes it happens that we can't think of more, we can think of no more narrative steps. To think of new narrative steps, there are various systems. One of them, the most effective, is simply to ask yourself questions. If you remember, in my scheme we had a man, Manuel, 35 years old, who infiltrated a hospital taking advantage of the arrival of an ambulance. Then we saw him walkin...”
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Course summary for: Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique
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Areas
Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, TV
Daniel Tubau
A course by Daniel Tubau
Daniel Tubau is a screenwriter, teacher, writer, and director. As a screenwriter, he has worked on television programs and series such as El Gran Juego de la Oca, El Informal, Mitos y Leyendas, Guardianes de la Historia, and many more. In the series Trilocos, an original idea by Emilio Aragón "Miliki," he was also showrunner for 130 programs.
He has published more than a dozen books, four of them about screenwriting: Las paradojas del guionista, La musa en el laboratorio, El espectador es el protagonista, and El guion del siglo 21. He is also a professor of screenwriting, directing, literature, and creativity in academies and universities such as SAE Institute in Mexico, Universidad de Lima in Peru, Escuela de Cine de Cuba EICTV, UASD in the Dominican Republic, Escuela de Cine ECAM, Universidad Nebrija, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and Universidad Carlos III, among others.
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