Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films
What story do we want to tell
A course by Alejandra Moffat , Author and screenwriter
About the video: What story do we want to tell
Overview
“First I will tell you how observation can help us find characters and actions that are of interest to us. Then, through brainstorming review, we will begin to define what story you want to develop. I will explain to you how writing has to do with relating ideas and that structuring has to do with generating a universe that sustains that relationship.”
In this video lesson Alejandra Moffat addresses the topic: What story do we want to tell, which is part of the Domestika online course: Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films. Learn how to develop a story for cinema, from beginning to end.
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: Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films
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Photography & Video, Writing -
Areas
Creative Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, Writing
Alejandra Moffat
A course by Alejandra Moffat
Alejandra Moffat is passionate about stories in its multiple formats and facets. She writes novels, stories, and above all, a copious amount of scripts. During her studies, she wrote scripts in fiction, animation, documentary, as well as having advised for film productions in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, France, Germany, and other countries.
The films she has worked on have been awarded at international festivals like Berlinale, Rotterdam, FICUNAM, Havana Film Festival, Cinema Tropical, and Annecy.
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