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12634
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
OT(15H)/TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Cinema
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Mode of delivery |
Face-to-Face.
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Work placements |
Not available.
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Learning outcomes |
This Course Unit main objective is to develop scriptwriting skills for cinema in a practical and tutorial way, both for a short-movie and for a feature movie treatement.
In this Course Unit the student must know how to write a script for a short movie and a treatement for a feature film in a original and creative way. For that, the student must developd knowledges already learned in the graduation (or, in its absence, learn the fundamental notions of scriptwriting by tutorial orientation and reading of support documents). The student must present, in a regime of continuous evaluation, works that are demanded by the teacher, responding to his sugestions and comments during the processes of writing.
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Syllabus |
1 - Discussions and tutorials about the students writing steps.
2 – Sugestions of writing and revision.
3 – Synopsis; Building a Character; Narrative Structure; Action and Dialogue; Making the spectator an interested viewer; Beginnings and Endings; Character Biography; Visual and Sonic Dimensions; Treatement for a feature film.
4- Tutorials having in mind the different backgrounds of the students (ex: format rules).
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Main Bibliography |
1 - A – David Trottier, The Screenwriter’s Bible: a Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting and Selling your Script, 2005.
2 - A - Syd Field, Screenplay, The foundations of Screenwriting, 1994
3 - A - Doc Comparato, Da criação ao guião, Pergaminho, 1992
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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