Communication 445 - Screenwriting
Spring
2023
01
3.00
Martin Norden,Tom Benedek
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
59527
Integ. Learning Center N345
norden@comm.umass.edu
tbenedek@bdic.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.