Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films
The First Ingredients - Part 2
A course by Alejandra Moffat , Author and screenwriter
About the video: The First Ingredients - Part 2
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In this video lesson Alejandra Moffat addresses the topic: The First Ingredients - Part 2, 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
“The first ingredients In addition to thinking about whether our film has an open and closed ending, we have to think about our end regarding the journey that the character has had during the action. If the character, according to the objective he has had, according to the mission that we have put in the film, achieves or fails to meet its objective. Is it the same what the character pursues to what the character needs? Let's think about the example I gave you before the detective movie. Suppose that as a screenwriter we have determined the following: the character spends the entire movie tr...”
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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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