Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique

A course by Daniel Tubau , Writer and Director

Writer and Director. Madrid, Spain.
Joined August 2021

Learn to organize a script by mapping it out sequentially, and create audiovisual projects that captivate your audience

96% positive reviews (108)
3,245 students
Audio: Spanish
Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch

Learn to organize a script by mapping it out sequentially, and create audiovisual projects that captivate your audience

There are many ways to structure the ideas we have in our minds, but there is one technique used by professional screenwriters that can help you stay on track and make all the elements of your script fall into place: the step outline. In this online course, screenwriter and writer Daniel Tubau teaches you how to master this invaluable technique.

Learn to organize your ideas in a sequence, carefully defining each of the narrative steps. Get ready to create your own step outline and turn your ideas into powerful scripts that connect with any audience.

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What will you learn in this online course?

14 lessons & 26 downloads

Find a story to tell
5 minutes, 33 seconds
Develop the outline of steps
5 minutes, 35 seconds
Do the wrong thing
4 minutes, 23 seconds
Narrative tricks and techniques
13 minutes, 50 seconds
Think sequentially
5 minutes, 36 seconds
  • 96% positive reviews (108)
  • 3,245 students
  • 14 lessons (1h 35m)
  • 26 additional resources (19 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What is this course's project?

Develop a step outline to help you write a short film script from start to finish.

Projects by course students

Who is this online course for?

Anyone who wants to get started in the world of screenwriting and screenwriters who want to learn a different working method for building stories.

Requirements and materials

You don't need any previous experience to take this course.

As for materials, all you need is a computer installed with a word processor.


Reviews

3,245 Students
108 Reviews
96% Positive ratings

Daniel Tubau

A course by Daniel Tubau

Teacher Plus
Writer and Director

Daniel Tubau is a screenwriter, teacher, writer, and director. As a screenwriter, he has worked on television programs and series such as El Gran Juego de la Oca, El Informal, Mitos y Leyendas, Guardianes de la Historia, and many more. In the series Trilocos, an original idea by Emilio Aragón "Miliki," he was also showrunner for 130 programs.

He has published more than a dozen books, four of them about screenwriting: Las paradojas del guionista, La musa en el laboratorio, El espectador es el protagonista, and El guion del siglo 21. He is also a professor of screenwriting, directing, literature, and creativity in academies and universities such as SAE Institute in Mexico, Universidad de Lima in Peru, Escuela de Cine de Cuba EICTV, UASD in the Dominican Republic, Escuela de Cine ECAM, Universidad Nebrija, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and Universidad Carlos III, among others.


Content

  • U1

    Introduction

    • About Me
    • Influences
  • U2

    The step scheme

    • What is a step outline?
    • Find a story to tell
    • Turn the story into a story
  • U3

    Build the scheme of steps

    • Develop the outline of steps
    • Improve outline and overcome creative blocks
    • Do the wrong thing
    • Creating your outline from start to finish
    • The viewer is the protagonist of your script
  • U4

    Finalize the outline of steps

    • Narrative tricks and techniques
    • Think sequentially
    • Think visually
    • From the outline of steps to the script
  • FP

    Final project

    • Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique

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Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique. Photography, Video, and Writing course by Daniel Tubau

Screen Writing: The Step Outline Technique

A course by Daniel Tubau
Writer and Director. Madrid, Spain.
Joined August 2021
  • 96% positive reviews (108)
  • 3,245 students