Visual Storytelling: Screenwriting
FILM 458
Summer 2012
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Since watching movies (good ones) is so easy and pleasurable, screenwriting is a medium that everyone's uncle thinks they can do. But anyone who has had to read an amateur screenplay knows different. This is a writing course that will start from ground zero: separating the screenplay from other forms, e.g. the play and the novel, and ground students in visual language as the basis of the medium. How do we write in pictures? |
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Essential Capabilities:
Designing, Creating, and Realizing, Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA FILM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 - June Session |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
No readings - we will be using the screenings of Higgins' FILM 3244 class as our texts.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Two short creative assignments, one long (12pp) |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course is linked with FILM324 as a thematic institute and students are strongly encouraged to take the two courses together. Whether taken alone or as part of the institute, these courses include a mandatory film screening M-F 1:15-3:15, so students must plan their schedules accordingly.
For information about Summer Session, visit www.wesleyan.edu/summer. |
| Instructor(s): Collins,Stephen Edward Times: .MTWRF. 03:30PM-05:10PM; Location: CFS128; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: 0 |
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