Communication 445 - Screenwriting
Spring
2019
01
3.00
Martin Norden
M W 10:10AM 11:25AM
UMass Amherst
12429
Integ. Learning Center N345
norden@comm.umass.edu
An examination of the art, craft, and business of screenwriting from theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics include screenplay format and structure, story, plot and character development, dialog and scene description, visual storytelling, pace and rhythm, analysis of professional and student scripts and films.
Open to Senior and Junior Communication majors only. Other students, with permission of instructor. This course was formerly numbered as COMM 493E. If you have already taken COMM 493E you cannot take this course.