Script Writing for Movies and Television
Combining narrative units
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Combining narrative units
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you what happens when narrative units are combined, and how that choice alters the dynamics of the story and is associated with some specific genres.”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Combining 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
“Combining Narrative Units What happens when we combine scenes and sequences? Are there differences between the perception of a scene and that of a sequence? Let's take a look at that. We saw in the time route that scenes and sequences make up the totality of a narrated event, but the perception of a sequence and that of a scene are very different. I represent a sequence as a slide. With little effort, somebody goes through spaces, all the way to the end. A scene, on the other hand, is like a ladder, where you go step by step. Both have advantages and disadvantages in terms of viewer attenti...”
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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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