Script Writing for Movies and Television
The scale and the treatment
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: The scale and the treatment
Overview
“I will teach you what it is and how it builds a script scale , and I will give you the keys to the construction of what is perhaps the most important stage in development; the treatment . ”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: The scale and the treatment, 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
“Step Outline and Treatment In this lesson, we will look at the step outline and treatment. The step outline is exactly that; it's a step-by-step outline. It's a description of each scene as it appears chronologically in the script. The outline will allow us to use the material in the future and develop it so we can write a complete script. It is the first approximation of the script in its entirety, and, as I mentioned, it follows a chronological order and is based on the action lines of each scene. The outline can be up to ten pages. Generally, it is approximately five, seven, or ten pages...”
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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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