Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique
Do the wrong thing
A course by Daniel Tubau , Writer and Director
About the video: Do the wrong thing
Overview
“Perfectionism in the early stages of creating a step outline (and also a script) can be our worst enemy. You better do it wrong. In this lesson I explain how to do things wrong.”
In this video lesson Daniel Tubau addresses the topic: Do the wrong thing, 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
“do the wrong thing In this lesson I will teach you how to do things wrong. A problem when you want to write a script or make the outline of steps of a short film it is wanting to do things right from the beginning. But in this narrative phase it is convenient to do things wrong. The obsession for wanting to do things right, the desire for perfection is usually the biggest impediment so that in the end we don't even do things. Creativity experts say it clearly: in the early stages of the creative process it is better to do things wrong. Maybe you think you don't know how to do things wrong. ...”
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Course summary for: Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique
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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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