55-5302 Story and Script: Fiction Techniques for the Media

The main emphasis of this course is upon the adaptation of prose fiction to script form-film, play, radio, or television. The course attends to the rich variety of ways in which imaginative prose fiction techniques- image, scene, dialogue, summary narrative, point of view, sense of address, movement, plot, and structure-and fiction material are used in the arts and communication fields such as advertising, scriptwriting for film, television, video, radio, and other visual and sound media. The class discusses connections and contrasts of prose fiction versions and film versions of classic and contemporary works. Students may also write stories in prose fiction form and then in script or other media forms.

3 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I