Specialization in Professional Screenwriting for Film

Overview

“A story is endless. It could take years to tell an everyday story because there are so many points of view, situations, and details. You unconsciously select fragments, and the sum of those fragments gives us the complete idea of the story. In short, you select narrative units. In this lesson, I'll teach you the two types of narrative units that exist: the autonomous narrative unit, also known as the scene; and the composite narrative unit, or sequence. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Narrative units, 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

“Narrative units In this lesson, we will analyze what are the narrative units which are the cornerstone of every scriptwriter's work, the brief space where the story is told. Narrative units are portions of an indivisible story. If one wanted to make an analogy with the human body, the narrative units would be the cells that make up the body, the body would be the story or an organ and each narrative unit has a specific function that builds that complete organ called history. The stories are endless. As they are infinite, being able to count them is impossible. One takes any possibility of s...”

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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