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THE 255
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Title: | Advanced Playwriting |
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Course Description: | Continues to explore playwriting techniques developed in THE 215 for theatre and applies concepts of writing for movie, television, radio, and animation scripts, with emphasis on the dramatic process and form. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Origin Notes: | PPCC |
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Course Notes: | Entered new course 4/21/11 LK |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Identify and critically discuss the genres and their effect upon the writing and performing process.
2. Properly create and use characters, setting, story, theme and dialogue within the different genres of dramatic scripts.
3. Use the analysis of their own and others projects as constructive criticism.
4. Explore, know, and use proper formatting and structural form for theatre plays, screen plays, television plays, radio plays, and animation.
5. Demonstrates mastery of concepts by writing scripts in the various forms identified in competency 4 above.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Review of Dramatic Literature
A. Brief historical overview of development of theatre and drama as literature
B. Survey of styles, genres and form
II. Script Mechanics and Dramatic Structure
A. Script mechanics
B. Dramatic structure
III. Development of the Script in contemporary forms
A. Approaches to writing for the stage, television, film and animation.
B. Creative writing exercises in all specified forms
IV. Elements of Character, Plot, Dialogue, and Setting for stage, television, film and animation.
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