Script Writing for Movies and Television
The sequence and its structure
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: The sequence and its structure
Overview
“I will teach you what a narrative sequence ; its different possibilities, the most common types and certain hacks for its writing. ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: The sequence and its structure, 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 Sequence and Its Structures In this lesson we will see the sequence, the structure of the sequence, and examples of each of them. Contrary to the scene, we saw that each sequence has a different behavior because it has time ellipses within it. Thus, the only way to join it is through an arc of narrative continuity. We have the friends, the fight, and the hospital arcs. They are part of one large action arc. The sequence can be of various types. Spatial sequence, where someone in that narrative development arc goes through many spaces. For example here, we have this killer chasing someon...”
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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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