This course blends group and individual instruction with intensive writing workshops. Students develop and write a screenplay for a 30-minute film, or the first 30 pages of a feature-length film from their own original idea. Character development and narrative structure are emphasized. Students learn the elements of dramatic storytelling for film; creating characters, scenes and dialogue; and script analysis. This is a required course in the Film and Television tracks for the New Media, Film, Television & Radio major and an applied course for the visual and performing arts core. No prerequisites.Three credits.

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