Jul 03, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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MDIA 4202 - Advanced Screenwriting for Television/Film: the Rewrite
Working with pre-existing scripts (provided by the students), this course leads the students through an analysis and peer critique process allowing screenwriters to re-examine their script in an effort to rework and rewrite the project.
Requisites: MDIA 3201 or 3202 or 4201
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- 1. Students will demonstrate an ability to reconfigure story, structure, character, dialogue, and metaphor/motif based on anaylsis and critique.
- 2. Student will articulate how changes in story, structure, character, dialogue, and metaphor/motif choices can enhance a pre-existing work.
- 3. Students will critique/analyze the work of others in a professional manner.
- 4. Students will explore alternative approaches to story, structure, character, dialogue, and theme.
- 5. Students will strengthen their own knowledge of their work by developing backstory and environmental details that inform their work, although the content may not appear in the work.
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