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FILM 413 - Research and Writing


Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit.
Credits: 3


Prerequisite: FILM 233 and at least nine additional credits for the minor. Enrollment limited to ten. A collaborative group research, writing, and/or production project for junior or senior minors, conducted in supervising faculty members’ areas of expertise, with directed independent study culminating in a substantial final project. Possible topics include global and national film, focused treatments of auteur-directors or genres, film and psychology, film and technological change, film and painting, original film production.

Winter 2017, FILM 413-01: Research and Writing: Screenplay (3). Prerequisite: Instructor consent. In this course, students practice the essentials of screenwriting, completing the pre-production process on a full-length screenplay from storyline development through a scene map and into first a rough draft at midterm with a final draft due at the end of the term.  Through reading key texts on screenwriting and studying the process, the student learn the basic storytelling concepts of screenwriting, how to develop those concepts into a compelling story, and finish out the term with a staged reading of the script for an audience.

Winter 2017, FILM 413-02: Research and Writing: Documentary (3). Prerequisite: Instructor consent. In this course, students practice the essentials of documentary filmmaking from developing a basic idea into the outline of a script, creating a detailed shooting schedule for production, completing this schedule and taking the raw footage into post-production with advanced non-linear editing software.  Through the reading of key texts on the making of documentary, discussion of these texts with the professor, the students learn the key components of documentary filmmaking and put them into practice with a finished film produced by the end of the term.




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