Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films
Construction from start to finish
A course by Alejandra Moffat , Author and screenwriter
About the video: Construction from start to finish
Overview
“Now that you have defined the character's journey, you will start to work with a timeline, that is, design what happens first and what happens after our story. This will be the beginning of our rundown: generating an order in events: Start - development - end. That order will make the action progress, our character is modified and the conflict that we are interested in exploring will develop. ”
In this video lesson Alejandra Moffat addresses the topic: Construction from start to finish, 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
“Construction from start to finish As I was saying, it is essential to think about the timeline of your movie, think about the beginning of the film, what is the middle, what is the end. It is essential because you have to think that you are creating the end from the beginning of the movie. So we cannot not know the end if we are going to build a rundown. I want to give you two movie examples to see how it is built. One is an animated film and the other is fiction. Let's start with the first few seconds from the movie "Up". As we see in the beginning of that movie, there is a boy dressed as ...”
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Course summary for: Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films
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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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