CINE 740 Advanced Screenwriting I Feature Film

For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.

Advanced screenwriting builds on the concepts of story development basics taught in the preceding courses of this curriculum. Students will become more specific in their approach to story advancement with a high level of attention focused on every scene and its relation to the overall screenplay. This type of precision is what is required of a professional script.

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After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will create a thread in response to the provided prompt for each Discussion. Each thread must be at least 500 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. The student must support his/her assertions with at least two scholarly citations and one citation from the textbook in MLA format. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to two other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be at least 200 words and incorporate at least one scholarly citation and one citation from the textbook in MLA format. Acceptable sources include the textbook, the Bible, professional publications and scholarly publications.

The student will develop an original story idea which will be used as the story idea for his synopsis and script outline.

The student will develop a rough draft synopsis of the story idea assignment.

The student will read and assess two previously produced screenplays (one before 1980 and one after 1980) considering the story, plot, theme, social or ethical issues, character development of the protagonist and antagonist, and one other main character, cinematography, director’s visual style, and worldview perspective i.e., what is the movie saying?

This assignment will be a description of the core of the film. The writer will answer the one question every writer must know and understand about the film they are writing.

The student will write a scene-by-scene outline of an original full-length screenplay for peer review and professor’s critique. The student will defend their story’s theme, character arcs, and action.

The student will develop the full story outline that “beats” out scene by scene the events that will be in their feature-length script.

The student will complete 2 quizzes in this course covering specified material from the required reading. The quizzes will contain 2 essay questions, will allow for 1 attempt, and will be open-book/open-notes. Both quizzes will have a 1 hour and 15 minute time limit.