Communication 445 - Screenwriting

Spring
2022
01
3.00
Martin Norden

TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM

UMass Amherst
27405
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. This course was formerly numbered as COMM 493E. If you have already taken COMM 493E you cannot take this course.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.