One-Hour or Half-Hour TV V: Rewrite

SCRIPT X 422.11

Learn basic rewriting skills as you review your initial draft for opportunities to expand, deepen, and enrich your TV script.

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As few as 10 weeks
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What you can learn.

  • Review the choices your characters make and how to intensify the consequences for them
  • Analyze the pacing of your script to ensure your scenes start and end at the most powerful points
  • Work in a community of writers to support each other and engage in the process of rewriting collaboratively
  • Take your pilot or spec of an existing series to the next level with a comprehensive rewrite

About this course:

Whether you've written a one-hour or half-hour tv script, (pilot or a spec of an existing series) your goal is the same: to dig deeper, raise the stakes higher, stretch your characters further to make your script one that will leave an indelible mark on its readers. If you're writing a pilot, have you introduced us to characters and situations that we want to come back to week after week? If you're writing a spec of an existing show, have you been true to the characters and situations as we know them, and still told a story that is somehow new? In this course, you review the choices your characters make, the consequences of those choices and how to make those consequences more dramatic. You look at your actions, your pacing, your tension and your stakes, among other things. The goal: to improve your one-hour or half-hour script until it's a story that demands the reader's attention.
Prerequisites
SCRIPT X 422.4 One-Hour TV IV, SCRIPT X 422.4N One-Hour TV Intensive IV, SCRIPT X 422.2 Half-Hour TV IV, SCRIPT X 422.2N Half-Hour TV Intensive IV, or SCRIPT X 422.8 Dramedy TV IV, or department approval.

Spring 2024 Schedule

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Tuesday 5:00PM - 8:00PM PT
Enrollment Closed
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Instructor: Adam Armus
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Fee:
$720.00
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Notes

No meeting April 23.

Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.

This course is held via video teleconference. Instructors use Zoom to offer live class meetings at the designated class meeting time. Students must be present at the course meeting time as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation. 
Please inform your instructor if you will miss a class meeting. You are responsible for any class information you missed. We suggest you arrange with a fellow classmate to share their notes when feasible.

Refund Deadline
No refunds after April 16, 2024
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.

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Time
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Online
Tue Apr 2, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Tue Apr 9, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Tue Apr 16, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Tue Apr 30, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Tue May 7, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Tue May 14, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
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Tue May 21, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
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Tue May 28, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
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Tue Jun 4, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Tue Jun 11, 2024
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote Classroom

Summer 2024 Schedule

Date & Time
Details
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Wednesday 6:00PM - 9:00PM PT
Future Offering (Opens April 29, 2024 12:00:00 AM)
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Instructor: Phil Kellard
397909
Fee:
$720.00
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Location: Remote Classroom
Updating...
See Details
Notes

Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.

This course is held via video teleconference. Instructors use Zoom to offer live class meetings at the designated class meeting time. Students must be present at the course meeting time as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation. 
Please inform your instructor if you will miss a class meeting. You are responsible for any class information you missed. We suggest you arrange with a fellow classmate to share their notes when feasible.

Refund Deadline
No refunds after July 24, 2024
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.
Schedule
Type
Date
Time
Location
Online
Wed Jul 10, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Jul 17, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
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Wed Jul 24, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
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Wed Jul 31, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
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Wed Aug 7, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
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Wed Aug 14, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
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Wed Aug 21, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
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Wed Aug 28, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Sep 4, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Sep 11, 2024
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom

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