The third unit is designed to expose students to films far outside of their experience with sections on documentary and experimental film. This is a writing skills course designed to familiarize the student with some basic writing techniques used in broadcast, cable, film and corporate video writing. This is an introductory course to the study of film covering film history and critical theory of film in the context of foreign and domestic narrative, documentary and experimental films. Emphasis is on understanding of film meaning through writing of a number of analysis papers. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the practical problems of writing for the screen so that they may continue to write further script materials on their own.
Emphasis is placed on narrative structure and character development.
This course provides a historical overview of the technological, artistic, social and economic conditions that drove the development of narrative and documentary film in the United States, Europe and Asia. Students are exposed to a variety of films representing the progression of film during its 100 years of existence.