Lectures will include practical as well as theoretical discussion involving screenwriting and film in general. Students will be required to read each other's work and will also be exposed to professionally produced film scripts. Course helps students further develop fiction writing skills. It looks especially at the craft necessary to execute polished, publishable stories, and at the technical aspects of planning and plotting a novel. Published fiction by a diversity of authors will also be examined.
Course helps students further develop poetry writing skills.
It looks especially at the craft necessary to complete finished, high quality poems, and at the literary traditions available to contemporary writers. Published poetry by a diversity of authors will also be examined. An advanced course in which students will use the techniques learned from the introductory course to complete a professional, polished feature film screenplay. The student may also choose to bring in a first draft and do a rewrite and polish.