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.
Athena Title
Writing for the Screen III
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
JNMW 6100E or JNMW 6101E or JNMW 6102E or JNMW 6103E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
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.
Topical Outline
I. Revising and restructuring the long-form project. II. Receiving 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.