Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film

Overview

“A screenwriter has to think sequentially, that is, in blocks that connect to each other. That's why we need to change our way of storytelling and think not in a continuous way, but in segments. In this lesson, I'll tell you how.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Think sequentially, 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

“think sequentially In this lesson we will continue to think like a screenwriter, now sequentially. Cinema and comics in their modern form were born almost at the same time and they are the two great sequential arts. Filmmakers and screenwriters have to think in segments, in separate parts, sequentially. The sequential aspect of cinema already existed from its origin in the celluloid strip, with separate photographs or frames. But we also find the sequential aspect in the shot and in the reverse shot, in the replica and the counter-replica or the cut between one scene and the next. The seque...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film

• Level: Beginner
• 67% positive reviews (3)
• 602 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