Craft of Dramatic and Visual Writing

(4 Credits)

This course is an intensive, semester-long introduction to the fundamentals of dramatic writing across the mediums of theater, film and episodic/tv. Plays, screenplays and episodic episodes will be read, viewed and analyzed for form and structure with emphasis on the common elements that the three mediums of playwriting, screenwriting and episodic writing share. Students will study and become familiar with terms like dramatic action, protagonist, antagonist, story goal, objective, norm, inciting incident, crisis, climax and resolution; terms which will be used in this course and in all Dramatic Writing classes going forward.