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Personal Stories for Page and Screen (W) - AS.061.241

Pre-College students & Undergraduate students June 30 - August 1 Online
3 Credits Status: Open Save this Course View Saved Courses

A workshop devoted to creating compelling short scripts and stories based on personal experience. Analysis of films, memoir, and short fiction, along with collaborative development of student work, will emphasize how unique worlds and world views can reflect a larger shared humanity. All writers welcome. Tell your story!

A writing-intensive course (W) engages students in multiple writing projects, ranging from traditional papers to a wide variety of other forms, distributed throughout the term. Assignments include a mix of high and low stakes writing, meaning that students have the chance to write in informal, low-pressure--even ungraded--contexts, as well as producing larger, more formal writing assignments. Students engage in writing in the classroom through variety of means, including class discussions, workshop, faculty/TA lectures, and class materials (for instance, strong and weak examples of the assigned genre). Expectations are clearly conveyed through assignment descriptions, including the genre and audience of the assigned writing, and evaluative criteria. Students receive feedback on their writing, in written and/or verbal form, from faculty, TAs, and/or peers. Students have at least one opportunity to revise.

Duration
5 weeks
Areas of Study
Humanities, Film and Media
Department
Film and Media Studies
Instructor
Bucknell, Lucy
Class Schedule
Monday
5:30 PM-8:00 PM
Tuesday
5:30 PM-8:00 PM
Thursday
5:30 PM-8:00 PM

Visual Storytelling (W) - AS.061.147

Pre-College students & Undergraduate students May 27 - June 27 Online
3 Credits Status: Open Save this Course View Saved Courses

This primer to screenwriting will emphasize the power of the image to deliver character, situation, and theme, and to advance even complex plots. Students will analyze narrative films, compose their own still and moving images with cellphone cameras, and write several short dramatic pieces to be read and workshopped by the group.  They'll learn the basics of scene design and of screenplay format. For FMS majors in the screenwriting track, this course fulfills the Media and Narrative requirement. $50 lab fee.

A writing-intensive course (W) engages students in multiple writing projects, ranging from traditional papers to a wide variety of other forms, distributed throughout the term. Assignments include a mix of high and low stakes writing, meaning that students have the chance to write in informal, low-pressure--even ungraded--contexts, as well as producing larger, more formal writing assignments. Students engage in writing in the classroom through variety of means, including class discussions, workshop, faculty/TA lectures, and class materials (for instance, strong and weak examples of the assigned genre). Expectations are clearly conveyed through assignment descriptions, including the genre and audience of the assigned writing, and evaluative criteria. Students receive feedback on their writing, in written and/or verbal form, from faculty, TAs, and/or peers. Students have at least one opportunity to revise.

Duration
5 weeks
Areas of Study
Humanities, Film and Media
Department
Film and Media Studies
Instructor
Bucknell, Lucy
Class Schedule
Monday
5:30 PM-8:00 PM
Tuesday
5:30 PM-8:00 PM
Thursday
5:30 PM-8:00 PM

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