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
Equivalent Courses
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
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. 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.