Memorial do processo de escrita do roteiro do longa-metragem “O Lugar”

Abstract

This memorial presents the process of writing the first draft of the screenplay for the movie “O Lugar”, discussing the challenges and difficulties of the process from the initial idea, the searching and researching, which includes interviews with people who could enrich the movie, the study of na iconographic with visits to coffee farms and villages in the interior of Ceará, and concluding with the screenwriting process itself, covering the stages of writing a screenplay and the elements of studies consulted for this stage, mainly the Sequence Approach and the beat structure of a screenplay. It is also intended to discuss about the changes necessary for the story and the difficults with the structure of an screenplay. In the end, it intends to reflect on what can still be done for the story of “O Lugar” and how to take the screenplay forward.