Topic: Writing for Media Professionals

Catalog description

This workshop-intensive writing course introduces students to principles of narrative scriptwriting for visual media. Both linear (e.g. film, television, & linear web) and nonlinear interactive forms are covered. It establishes that a script is a plan for production and that visual media is identifiably different from print media. This course introduces the script formats for several visual media and demands regular writing practices in these formats: TV commercials, PSA, corporate, training, TV drama/sitcom and interactive media.