Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film

Overview

“First, I'll explain how observation can help us find characters and actions that interest us. Then, by reviewing your brainstorming, we'll begin to define the story you want to develop. I'll explain how writing is about connecting ideas and how structuring is about creating a universe that sustains that connection.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: What story do we want to tell, 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

“What story do we want to tell Surely when you go to the cinema and you like a movie a lot, you wonder where that scriptwriter got his ideas, how he managed to organize the action in this way so that I, as a spectator, feel so many things. Where do we get ideas from? The truth is that it is very diverse. We can think that from our imagination, of our fantasies, From our own experience, from books, from movies, From the newspapers we read But there is something that seems fundamental to me and that has been very important in the development of the films that I have written, and it is the obse...”

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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