Course Details

Creating Great Scenes: The Key to Cinematic Drama

 

WRIT1-CE9642 / $290
SPRING 2012
Continuing Education: Writing and Speech

The scene--the basic unit of great film and drama--is examined as students look at its construction in classical pieces from great films to understand what makes a work powerful. They then apply what they've learned by writing scenes and receiving immediate feedback from the instructor and classmates. Scene dynamics, scenes types and their purposes, scene sequences, plot points, bookends, setting up characters, conflicts, and payoffs are studied as essential components of a fine screenplay.

5-session Screenwriting elective.

This course is applicable toward:

• Certificate in Screenwriting

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Related Subject Areas: Screenwriting, Writing, Dramatic Writing

 

 

 

Section 1

 

Monday 6:45pm-9:45pm
March 26 - April 23

No class April 9

4 Sessions

Instructor: Adam Nadler  
Location: Manhattan Village Academy