Script Writing for Movies and Television
Time alteration
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Time alteration
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you ways to modify the film time of a movie, using tools such as flashback , flashforward , mockups and flashSide .”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Time alteration, 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
“Time Disruption Now, let's talk about time disruption. Time disruption might just be the oldest tool a screenwriter can use to create feelings of realization and to jolt people's attention span. It consists of taking a time segment, extracting it from the time flow, and inserting it at any point in the story. Let's take a look at all these possibilities. Time is an uninterrupted arrow, and here, you have eight stages of a random story with a small progression and then a peak. Time Arrow There's no interruption in the time continuum during these eight stages. What you do to create a flashbac...”
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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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