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Writing for the Screen II: Completing the Screenplay


Course Description

Students will work with a new faculty mentor on a writing plan and rigorously revise their screenplays and teleplays. Students will add to and/or complete their screenplays or two additional episodes of their television series.


Athena Title

Writng for the Screen II


Non-Traditional Format

This course will be taught 95% or more online.


Prerequisite

JNMW 6100E or JNMW 6101E


Semester Course Offered

Offered spring


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Course Objectives

Students will learn to design a writing plan for a long-term project. With the guidance of a new faculty mentor, students will emerge with the skills to not only write a long-term project, but also complete a screenplay or teleplays 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.