Script Writing for Movies and Television
Writing tools
A course by Julio Rojas , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Writing tools
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to write a scene in script software such as Final Draft , and what are the rules you should not forget, whatever program you use.”
In this video lesson Julio Rojas addresses the topic: Writing tools, 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
“Writing Tools In this lesson, we will look at writing tools. Writing tools. I divide the creative writing process into three main parts: the representation of the creative process, capturing of information, and the writing format. I use different tools for each part. I divide my work day and work material into three areas: creative capturing, data or information, and formats. Let's look at each one of them. For creative capturing, I need to have a place where I can visualize my disorganized ideas. I suppose that both you and I, who like movies, we are more visual than we are reading, writin...”
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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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