FLMC 2335 - Screenwriting for Features, Shorts and Documentaries

Credits: 3

Screenwriting for the principle genres of film. (This class emphasizes screenwriting for the principle genres of film. Students will create treatments from dramatic concepts, turn these treatments into screenplays and complete full shooting scripts by the course’s end. Topics include scriptwriting, formatting conventions and structural analysis of comedies, dramas, documentaries and short films. At the conclusion of the course students will submit an original script to a scriptwriting contest. Students are required to attend additional lab hours outside of class.)

Lecture: 2
Lab: 4
Prerequisite(s): RTVB 1429; must be placed into college-level reading, college-level writing and MATH 0332 (P) in math