Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique
Think visually
A course by Daniel Tubau , Writer and Director
About the video: Think visually
Overview
“Next, I am going to talk to you about another of the characteristics of a good screenwriter: the ability to think audiovisually. You have to think in (moving) images and in sound. Let's apply this way of thinking to the step chart.”
In this video lesson Daniel Tubau addresses the topic: Think visually, 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
“think visually Now we will take into account a very important aspect that we should not forget the screenwriters, that we are working for an audiovisual medium, that is, sound and image. I've rearranged the chips a bit because they didn't fit me well, but keep in mind that this is usually done on larger boards. If you have a cork, you can puncture with chips, it's going great, or you can write with markers on your board. This is a work tool, you always have to remember it, and in the lesson material you can check how exactly the dates are placed. In the last lesson we discovered that whoeve...”
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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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