Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique
The viewer is the protagonist of your script
A course by Daniel Tubau , Writer and Director
About the video: The viewer is the protagonist of your script
Overview
“One of the biggest mistakes a screenwriter can make is not thinking about the viewer, concentrating only on the things that happen to the characters and forgetting that the most important thing in a script is what happens to the viewer. In this lesson, I'll teach you to put yourself in your audience's shoes and think about the effect you can have on them.”
In this video lesson Daniel Tubau addresses the topic: The viewer is the protagonist of your script, 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
“The viewer is the protagonist of your script In that lesson I will tell you something that many script theorists forget, that the true protagonist of the script is not a character, but the spectator. When we think about the structure of the script or the step outline, we must avoid falling into what I call the schizophrenia of script gurus. This schizophrenia consists in the fact that in his books many pages are devoted to telling us how to excite, how to move, how to surprise the viewer. That's very good. However, when they examine the structure, what they have done to think of the viewer ...”
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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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