Cinema: Screenwriting - Screenwriting Practicum

Screenwriting Practicum (SCRN 2106)

Total Credits: 4
Lecture Credits: 3.00
Lab Credits: 1.00

Description: This course focuses on three major activities: exploring the fundamental principles and the legal aspects of the business as they relate to the screenwriting profession; analyzing the feature scripts developed in SCRN 2105 and their structure; and learning how to orally pitch a feature idea or a script to professionals. Using concepts from classical and contemporary dramatic structures, you will learn how to write, rehearse and pitch your script to professional producers and directors from New York or Los Angeles.

Topical Outline:

Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Conceive, rewrite, rehearse and perform powerful and exciting pitches
2. 2. Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the legal business practices of screenwriting
3. 3. Deliver an analysis of your long script form through the 99 questions
4. 4. Conceive a continuity for your final long script form
5. 5. Present and experiential graph for your final long form script

Prerequisites: 

SCRN 2103 and SCRN 2104.

Co-requisites: 

SCRN 2105.