Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films
The art of creating a structure with images and sounds
A course by Alejandra Moffat , Author and screenwriter
About the video: The art of creating a structure with images and sounds
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to tell you how to design an audiovisual scene: image and sound. What indications are necessary and what types of descriptions are left over. How the scenes are creating a rhythm that can be easily graphed and altered for better performance. For this, we will begin to develop some scenes of our rundown.”
In this video lesson Alejandra Moffat addresses the topic: The art of creating a structure with images and sounds, 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 art of creating a structure with images and sounds I started writing theater first, later I wrote narrative, short stories and novels and then I started writing scripts. Then i had to learn a little the differences of writing one thing and another. For example, in theater I wrote a lot of dialogue. In narrative I wrote many thoughts of the characters. The inner world of the character, I could spend 20 pages describing it. Suddenly, I came to the cinema and the cinema presented me with a challenge, which was audiovisual writing. What does it mean? A writing that is focused in what one ca...”
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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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