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Script Writing for Movies and Television

Time trial and anecdote

A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author

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About the video: Time trial and anecdote

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you how to use the time trial, anecdote, surprise and suspense to alter the subjective perception of your story; and you will see how they play with emotion.”

In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Time trial and anecdote, 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

“Race Against Time and Anecdote Let's talk about anecdotes and the race against time, two elements I tend to use a lot. You use one of them to develop your character, and the other, for the plot. Let's take a look. The anecdote is an event or sudden disruption of the narrative system resulting in an important release of pent-up dramatic tension. Usually, what you get from your audience is a positive release of emotion. Maybe we've remembered many movies where an anecdote lifts us up when we're on thin ice, or surprising us, making us laugh, refreshing us, allowing us to continue absorbing th...”

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Course summary for: Script Writing for Movies and Television

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1280)
39716 students
8 units
28 lessons (4h 59m)
10 downloads

Category
Photography & Video, Writing
Areas
Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, TV, Writing

Julio Rojas

A course by Julio Rojas

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Screenwriter and Author

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.