Writing the First Screenplay IV
Finish your feature film script and learn revision tactics in our fourth and final basic screenwriting course.
About this course:
In the last of a four-part sequence in writing a feature film screenplay, you reach FADE OUT. In the process of completing your script, you home in on structuring conversations, explore how to maximize your story's visual implications, deepen scene writing skills, assemble scenes to form powerful sequences, ensure your script's central conflict is resolved, and work on theme and imagery. Also covered are revision techniques and the business aspects of feature film writing. The goal is to complete writing your first feature film script.It is advisable that you complete the following (or equivalent) since they are prerequisites for Writing the First Screenplay IV.
X 410.1 Writing the First Screenplay I, X 410.2 Writing the First Screenplay II, and X 410.3 Writing the First Screenplay III. Students must bring their beat sheets or treatments, Act I and 45 pages of Act II to the first class meeting and be prepared to write.
Fall 2019 Schedule
Available Format(s):
These courses are fully online, and there are no in-person classroom meetings.
These courses meet in person and make use of an online presence to varying degrees.
No meeting Nov. 27.
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
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