Script Writing for Movies and Television
Choosing what to tell
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Choosing what to tell
Overview
“In this lesson, I will talk to you about the method that I apply to discard an idea, an anecdote and a story with the potential to be told. I will also show you how I apply this to the feature film project that I will develop during the course. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Choosing what to tell, which is part of the Domestika online course: Script Writing for Movies and Television. Discover a creative method to start telling your audiovisual stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“Choosing the Story You're Going to Tell Choosing the story you're going to tell. That's every screenwriter's dilemma. Is our story any good? Is it bad? Is it worth it? The criteria for every story are always the same. There's a timeline, a character who goes through a number of events, and these events change as time progresses. Is that relevant to a story? Though someone tells us something that happened, where they lived through several different events and different adventures, is that valuable enough to be used in a script, to become part of it? A story needs certain requirements in orde...”
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Course summary for: Script Writing for Movies and Television
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Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, TV, Writing
Julio Rojas
A course by Julio Rojas
Julio Rojas is a dentist by trade, which may be hard to believe given that he has devoted over two decades of his life to screenplays and writing. He has worked as a professor at major universities and film schools like the EICTV in Cuba, where he's been teaching the advanced screenwriting course for fifteen years. Julio has also worked as a fiction content director for free-to-air TV channels and audiovisual producers.
His most prominent work includes feature films like Sábado(Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award), La vida de los peces (2012 Goya winner), and La memoria del agua (selected for Venice Days at the 2016 Venice Film Festival). In addition to screenplays, Julio just published his first novel, a historical crime thriller titled El visitante extranjero (The Foreign Visitor), through Penguin Random House.
His Spotify podcast series CASO 32, listed by The New York Times as one of the best audio fictions of 2020, has been remade in various languages as well as categorized as the most-listened-to Spanish-language audio fiction in the world.
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