Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film

Overview

“We'll begin by searching for our film's idea to come up with a clear, concise, and workable definition. In this lesson, I'll show you how to find it.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: The idea, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film. Develop effective film scripts, from concept development to narrative structure and engaging dialogue..

Partial transcription of the video

“The idea What if a writer wants to create a story where not much happens? Where people do not change or have revelations. They fight, they get frustrated and nothing is resolved. More like in the real world. The real world? Yes sir. The damn real world. First of all, write a script without conflict or crisis and your audience will die of boredom. As you saw in this snippet of "Adaptation", Robert McKee, who is one of the script gurus, perhaps the one who wrote the most important book on the script, literally called "The Script", tells how we have to approach the story of a movie. Must have ...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film

• Level: Beginner
• 67% positive reviews (3)
• 605 students
• 7 units
• 101 lessons (17h 57m)
• 68 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, TV, Writing