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.
Athena Title
Writing for the Screen II
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EMST 6111E, FILM 6111
Prerequisite
EMST 4110/6110
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. 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.
Syllabus