Course Overview
If you have an idea or concept for a TV show, mini-series, film, or series for the web, and want to turn your concept into a mini-bible, treatment, and/or script that you can pitch to producers, broadcasters, and funders, this course is for you.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyze the theme, or core message, of their story.
- Interpret their central characters and their motivations.
- Assess what makes for good drama and identify the critical turning points of their story.
- Generate a treatment for a series for television, the web, or for a feature film.
- Plan the basic elements required before approaching producers, broadcasters, and funders.
- Develop the basics of good dialogue, which reflects character and sounds natural.
- Construct correctly formatted scenes and/or scripts for episodic entertainment or feature film.
Effective as of Fall 2011
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