Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film

Overview

“You'll learn to narrow down a theme to a premise that becomes a navigational compass that will transform and deepen the action, outlining the path to follow. You'll also learn to describe your characters, both main and supporting, ensuring that this description is useful for the development of the action.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Plot Design - Part 1, 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

“Frame design The time has come to start designing the plot of our short film. So there are several things to do. One of the main ones is that we are going to try to pass from a theme to a premise. The premise is like you have a thesis before you start developing your rundown. I'll give you an example to make it clear. If you see "The Wolf of Wall Street", the movie, you will realize that there is a small premise behind that says that overflowing ambition leads to self-destruction. It's like the idea behind it. Obviously, the premise is never named in the movie. We don't have the actor sayin...”

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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