Description
Prerequisite: a prior film course. In this course, students will conceive a short film from its very basis to its final completion. In fall, we will explore a creative and deep examination of the foundations and processes of writing with images and sounds. The course will provide a path to a certain type of sensitivity that will help writers create not just the screenplay for the course but also contribute to all of their screenplays to follow. What are the fundamental skills that we need for writing a film? What is the observation period in which artists need to participate to successfully translate their ideas into words? The script is a descriptive representation of the images and sounds that the writer has created in their imagination—beginning with the construction of an image that nests a story and exploring its possible forms and shapes, imagining characters from the inside outward, and then situating them in the image to let them grow. In spring, we will explore all areas of st