WRITE-602-02: Screenwriting
Spring 2019
- Subject: Graduate Writing
- Type: Studio
- Delivery Mode: In-Person
- Level: Graduate
- Campus: San Francisco
- Course Dates: January 23, 2019 — May 08, 2019
- Meetings: Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Main Building - 101
- Instructor: Noah Stern
- Units: 3.0
- Enrolled: 0/7 Closed
Description:
The screenwriting seminar focuses on the art and craft of motion picture, television, and adaptive digital/multimedia screenwriting. Our course explores the genesis of screenwriting, the integral components of concept, genre, character, structure, dialogue, scene/sequencing, culminating in the preparation of script and treatments for a variety of screen formats. The course is comprised of informal lectures, screenings, writing assignments, and a screenwriting workshop. Our expressed goal is to develop and finish several short film screenplays, a television sitcom sequence, culminating in an original narrative (approx. 15 - 20pp.) screenplay. We'll explore our love of movies and television, and ideally via screenwriting practice arrive at a fuller understanding of Hollywood, independent, and international filmmaking, plus the evolving poetics triggered by streaming and binge-viewing (Netflix/YouTube/HBO et al.) creation and consumption.
Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:
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