Script Writing for Movies and Television
The script as a system
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: The script as a system
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you why the script is like an organic system, and how each of the narrative elements that compose it interacts in a functional and integrated way with the other. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: The script as a system, 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 Script As a System Let's talk about the script as a system. The script is a system of interconnected parts. Each element in the script connects to another element. It's a fact that by removing one piece, you're destroying the whole thing. It's just like a human organism, bacteria, or an ecosystem. The script system, like a planetary system, like a cellular system, like an ecosystem, deals with disrupting agents, changes, and is made of pieces and connections. Disruptive elements affect the elements, produce a change in them, and you get a connection between the elements and these change...”
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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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