| Course ID: | EMST 6110E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Screenwriting |
Course
Description: | An intensive media writing course. Students utilize the fundamentals of dramatic criteria learned in Writing for Entertainment Media to develop and pitch story ideas. Students are required to write a screenplay or equivalent media product. |
| Oasis Title: | Screenwriting |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in EMST 4110, EMST 6110, FILM 6110 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. Demonstrate critical insight into basic formatting, dialogue, exposition, and scene construction.
2. Execute idea-generating strategies and internal and external research.
3. Perform the work that precedes the drafting of a script, and the level of creativity necessary to develop a camera-ready work.
4. Develop a personal writing process that results in the creation of an act-by-act construction of an original screenplay. |
| Topical Outline: | Writing screenplays
Narrative strategies
Pitching story ideas
Writing treatments
Character construction and development
Writing dialogue
Peer review and critiquing practices
Rewriting and polishing |