Review the choices your characters make and how to intensify the consequences for them
Analyze the pacing of your script to ensure your scenes start and end at the most powerful points
Work in a community of writers to support each other and engage in the process of rewriting collaboratively
Take your pilot or spec of an existing series to the next level with a comprehensive rewrite
About this course:
Whether you've written a one-hour or half-hour tv script, (pilot or a spec of an existing series) your goal is the same: to dig deeper, raise the stakes higher, stretch your characters further to make your script one that will leave an indelible mark on its readers. If you're writing a pilot, have you introduced us to characters and situations that we want to come back to week after week? If you're writing a spec of an existing show, have you been true to the characters and situations as we know them, and still told a story that is somehow new? In this course, you review the choices your characters make, the consequences of those choices and how to make those consequences more dramatic. You look at your actions, your pacing, your tension and your stakes, among other things. The goal: to improve your one-hour or half-hour script until it's a story that demands the reader's attention.
Prerequisites
SCRIPT X 422.4 One-Hour TV IV, SCRIPT X 422.4N One-Hour TV Intensive IV, SCRIPT X 422.2 Half-Hour TV IV, SCRIPT X 422.2N Half-Hour TV Intensive IV, or SCRIPT X 422.8 Dramedy TV IV, or department approval.
Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.
This course is held via video teleconference. Instructors use Zoom to offer live class meetings at the designated class meeting time. Students must be present at the course meeting time as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation.
Please inform your instructor if you will miss a class meeting. You are responsible for any class information you missed. We suggest you arrange with a fellow classmate to share their notes when feasible.
Refund Deadline
No refunds after January 23, 2025
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.
Schedule
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Date
Time
Location
Discussion
Thu Jan 9, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
Discussion
Thu Jan 16, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
Discussion
Thu Jan 23, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
Discussion
Thu Jan 30, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
Discussion
Thu Feb 6, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
Discussion
Thu Feb 13, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
Discussion
Thu Feb 20, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
Discussion
Thu Feb 27, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
Discussion
Thu Mar 6, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
Discussion
Thu Mar 13, 2025
5:00PM PT - 8:00PM PT
Remote ClassroomRemote Learning
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