Class Scriptwriting

The course unit is situated within the field of audiovisual communication and seeks to foster an advanced engagement with creative practice in this domain. It is structured as a laboratory-based discipline, in which students undertake research and the development of their concepts, while also sharing and collectively discussing their work. The course unit aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the languages and forms associated with diverse genres of contemporary audiovisual and cinematographic artistic production. The scripts developed within the framework of this course unit may serve as a foundation for subsequent course units—Audiovisual Creation Project and Multimedia Creation Project—offered in the following second semester, where students are expected to produce two short films, one in fiction and one in documentary, as well as a multimedia exhibition, to be presented in the context of Multiplex.

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I- STUDY OF NARRATIVE GENRES IN AUDIOVISUALS The experimental in the moving image The moving image as a sensory experience Fiction: genres and dramaturgy Non-fiction: documentary modes and filming “the real” Advertising narrative models Music video strategies Avant-garde and post-narrative cinema   II - DEVELOPMENT AND WRITING Content construction and conceptualization processes Script for Art-Multimedia Script for Advertising, Corporate Video and Music Video: Fiction Dossier The script for fiction Documentary dossier The Documentary Script

Promotion of active methodologies through creative discussion of projects and practical exercises. Expository and interrogative methodologies through the viewing and analysis of video clips in class. Encouraging collaborative writing with online tools, such as specific writing platforms for screenplays (e.g. Celtx, WriterDuet, etc.), so that students work together in real time to develop their writing. To this end, working groups will be set up where students can develop scripts in real time, with feedback from classmates and teachers. Presentation of the final scripts in pitching mode to professionals in the film industry (screenwriters, directors and producers), in an open session at the end of the year, at the Universidade Lusófona- Centro Universitário do Porto.

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