Course Description
Developing the full length script for performance.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
More ambitious projects in addition to research on industry history and conventions for script development.
Athena Title
DRAM WRITING II
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in DRAM 5620/7620
Prerequisite
THEA 4000/6000
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The successful student will produce a professional-quality draft of a full-length play or screenplay.
Topical Outline
Month one: identify and analyze, from a writer's perspective, a dozen to twenty works (cinema, cable, TV, stage) that might serve in one respect or another as potential models for the work to be attempted. Go to the library or do other research to get sufficient background on the topic to begin writing. Write backstories, collect information, tell the basic story a dozen or hundred different ways until the story, from each major (and supporting) character's perspective, becomes completely familiar, as familiar as if one were talking about family secrets and legends. Months two, three, and four: write, rewrite, cope with critiques, rewrite some more, do trial readings, and finally do a draft that's for the semester.