Script Writing for Movies and Television
The great drawing
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: The great drawing
Overview
“Knowing the drawing that forms the plot of the story is a valuable guide to design the structural points of the script. In this lesson, I will describe some fundamental elements that make up the structure, so that they can be used to reconfigure a story.”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: The great drawing, 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
“Creating a Picture Now, let's look at creating a picture, which consists of the basic narrative structures. The structure is really a kind of travel log and a route of a journey on a map; just like this one. You can see how the ship is sailing, stopping at various places, and it's created a type of map. We can see how the ship is sailing along its route, and as it stops, it creates a kind of a figure. This figure creates a structure in space. The same thing happens with a story. Stories are not like this arrow; they are not linear. They have variations. In cinema, the structure is defined b...”
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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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