ENGL 214 Screenwriting 1 (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
A writer’s workshop focused on outlining, structuring, formatting, and writing a screenplay to meet the standards of the American film industry for feature film.
Course Content
A. Creative writing – the screenplay (various genres suitable for mass American distribution)
B. Structuring & formatting
C. Outlining – a Script Treatment
D. Developing plot & characters
E. Scene creation - dialogue, action, & description
F. Revision process
G. Writing workshop and peer review
Student Outcomes
1. Create an act, logline, and treatment of a well-drafted screenplay, or a complete short of no less than twenty pages.
2. Use industry standards for script writing and script formatting.
3. Describe and employ story formatting concepts and techniques in order to evaluate one’s own screenplay and the screenplays of others.
4. Evaluate scripts (self and workshops) in order to improve one’s writing and adhere to industry screenplay standards.
5. Analyze screenplays (self and peers) for genre, plot, character, dialogue, and narrative pacing.
6. Revise creative work - including story treatment (outline), acts, scenes, and pitch.
7. Develop a written and/or oral pitch of one’s creative work for theatre and film production.
Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
Potential Methods A. Written creative work B. Workshop participation and written responses C. Revisions of creative work D. Portfolio of revised creative work E. Submissions and/or presentations of creative work F. Exams G. Quizzes H. Essays and Journals I. Outlines
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