Course ID: | EMST 7110. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Writing for the Screen III: Work-in-Progress Screenplay |
Course Description: | Students continue to revise and polish previous screenplays and teleplays and begin work on a second screenplay and teleplay that will become the thesis project. |
Oasis Title: | Writing for the Screen III |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in EMST 7110E, FILM 7110 |
Prerequisite: | (EMST 4110/6110 or EMST 6110E) and (EMST 6111 or EMST 6111E) |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Students will learn to prepare a thesis-length project.
Students will emerge with greater writing sophistication and
narrative engagement.
Students will hone their skills at long-term screenwriting and
teleplay writing by revisiting writing done in the first two
semesters and beginning work on their thesis-length project.
Students will learn to prepare a thesis-length project. |
Topical Outline: | I. Revising and restructuring the long-form project.
II. Revising and responding to criticism.
III. Selecting a topic for a second long-form project.
IV. Outlining the long-form project and the television series.
V. Critiquing one’s own work.
VI. Writing on deadline. |
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/ov12. Every course syllabus should include
the instructor's expectations related to academic integrity. |