Writing The Short Screenplay

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This course will help students develop engaging and imaginative, original or adapted, ten minute screenplays for production in the second year program. The semester will begin with an “intensive" devoted to table readings where each script will be taken through a formal process of oral and written feedback in preparation for the subsequent course work. Students will subsequently rethink, restructure, rewrite and further develop the scripts. After a brief review of common issues and key principles, each revised script will be read and discussed in class, with individual consultations offered. At the end of this course, each student should have a strong second draft screenplay ready for production.