Script Writing for Movies and Television
Narrative devices
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Narrative devices
Overview
“In this lesson I will make a description of the main narrative devices; such as temporary alterations, time trial , suspense , surprise and planting , among others.”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Narrative devices, 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
“Plot Devices In this lesson, we'll talk about the most common plot devices that you'll find in each of the movies you've seen so far and in the future. You have so many common plot devices. The first one is time disruption, which allows you to interrupt the time flow in a story. The second one, surprise, allows you to use certain elements to crank up the dramatic tension. The third one is suspense, a great source of dramatic tension. We'll learn the rules of suspense later on. The fourth one is mystery as an essential tool to put your information progression together. Next one is dissociati...”
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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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