Script Writing for Movies and Television
Narrative units
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Narrative units
Overview
“I will show you what a narrative unit and its different possibilities: scene , sequence , phase , act . I will show you its rules, its most common types and certain hacks for writing. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Narrative units, 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
“Narrative Units In this lesson I am going to talk about narrative units. What we are narrating is a continuum of events over time. As we know, time cannot be stopped. It is a progressive transition in a given span of time. This time arrow, that scientists love to call the thermodynamic arrow of time, cannot be stopped, although it's been tried in many films. If we had to narrate "The Godfather," it would take many years, because we are not only narrating a character's temporal perception continuum, but of all the characters involved. The first thing to do is define who is narrating, that is...”
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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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