Script Writing for Movies and Television
The base argument
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: The base argument
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you what the argument , how to extract it from the inside of a story, and why it is so important.”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: The base argument, 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
“The Main Plot Now, we'll talk about the main plot, the heart over which we're constructing of our story. What is the main plot? The plot is the story stripped to the bare bones. It's the bones, the DNA of a story. We'll see here that the main plot is the DNA, the framework, the inner structure of the story. And it's so simple that the plot can be told in a thousand different ways. The plot itself is a matrix, a pattern that can be used to tell many different stories. That's why plots are universal, but stories are specific. Let's take a look at the construction elements of plot. We have our...”
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Course summary for: Script Writing for Movies and Television
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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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