Course ID: | EMST 6111. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Writing for the Screen II: Completing the Screenplay |
Course Description: | Students will rigorously revise their screenplays and teleplays. Students will add to and/or complete their screenplays or two additional episodes of their television series. |
Oasis Title: | Writing for the Screen II |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in EMST 6111E, FILM 6111 |
Prerequisite: | EMST 4110/6110 |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Students will learn to design a writing plan for a long-term
project. Students will emerge with the skills not only to write
long-term projects, but also to complete a screenplay or teleplay
for three episodes of a television series. |
Topical Outline: | I. Designing a writing strategy for a long-form screenplay and
teleplay.
II. Writing, rewriting, and polishing the screenplay and the
teleplay.
III. Responding to and incorporating notes from producers into
screenplays and teleplays.
IV. Editing and completing the screenplay and the teleplay. |
Honor Code Reference: | UGA Student Honor Code: "I will be academically honest in all of
my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of
others." A Culture of Honesty, the University's policy and
procedures for handling cases of suspected dishonesty, can be
found at www.uga.edu/ovpi. Every course syllabus should include
the instructor's expectations related to academic integrity. |