40-3230 Master Workshop Sketch Comedy: Writing

This advanced course is designed to teach the skills needed to write proficiently within the popular television genre of sketch comedy. Course will require students to create and write original sketches and commercial parodies. The sketch ideas will be pitched, improvised, drafted, read, reviewed, and revised step by step, in a classic writer’s table story conference procedure before moving on to the rehearsal and production process. Students will collaborate closely with the students and instructors of the Production and Producing courses. The end product of this collaboration, Out on a Limb or FreqOut will be aired live on Frequency TV.

4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3202 Writing for Television and 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing