Description
Prerequisite: a prior film course. In a world filled with moving images, we are all highly capable spectators as well as screenwriters. In this course, we will deepen and complement our existing knowledge of the cinematic medium, challenge our assumptions, and experiment with new ways of conceiving and making cinema. This course will explore a creative and deep examination of the foundations and processes of writing with images and sounds, unveiling the knowledge that students already have and working from there. The course will provide a path to a certain type of sensitivity, which will help writers create not just the screenplay for this course but also contribute to all of their screenplays to follow. Understanding the capacity of the medium will be the most important course objective. Introducing a variety of ways in which film can be made and seen—from contemporary to classical screenwriting sensitivities and from European to Latin American filmmaking—the idea will be to expand ou