SCREENWRITING FOR TELEVISION (CM2018)

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Over the past twenty years, Granada, HBO, and the BBC have been creating series such as The Singing Detective, Cracker, MI5, The Sopranos, and The Wire that are much darker and more persuasive and perverse than anything else on television or on the big screen. Students will examine these 'visual texts,' and will also outline one or two series of their own, working on individual scenes that will be dramatized in class.

Code: 
CM2018
Name: 
SCREENWRITING FOR TELEVISION
Discipline: 
CM (Communications)
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
SCREENWRITING FOR TELEVISION (FM2018)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Create a series ‘bible and assess and develop narrative arcs over multiple episodes.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge and mastery of screenwriting form (for short form and feature).
  3. Receive and give constructive feedback and revise effectively alone and as part of a collaborative team.
  4. Work creatively with other students (in large groups and small) to develop character, conflict, plot, theme, setting, dialogue, subtext, style, tone, genre, scene, sequence, act development, visual storytelling and other elements of the well-crafted screenplay.
  5. Write expressive screenplays with correct and effective use of screenwriting craft.
  6. Aesthetic Inquiry and Creative Expression: Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (e.g., visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions. (CCI LO2)
  7. Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class. (CCI LO3)

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