Summer 2024 Theatre Arts (Barnard) BC0180 section 001

Screenwriting: The Art of Storytelling T

SCREENWRITING

Call Number 00121
Day & Time
Location
TWR 9:30am-12:00pm
To be announced
Day & Time
Location
W 2:00pm-4:30pm
To be announced
Points 0
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Elisabeth E Frankel
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

This course will give you the empowering tools to recognize a creative idea in your imagination, and use the medium of screenwriting to make it come to life. You will write, workshop, or refine your voice as a screenwriter, while watching films that will inspire and challenge you. We will explore the foundations of three-act structure, beat sheets, and the Young Hero’s Journey, before interrogating how to best tell stories in our own way. Throughout this course, we will explore questions like: What makes a great opening scene you can’t turn off? How can genres like science fiction or horror enhance a story about the human experience? How do we uplift our personal experiences through memoir writing? We will study almost a dozen films, widely varied in style and approach, but almost all of them exclusively made by and starring women. In addition to classroom screenings, we will make use of incredible opportunities across New York City; past field trips have included the Museum of Modern Art and the Metrograph Theater. By the end of the course, you will have written 3-4 short screenplays. Between watching, discussing, and writing, this course is an all-encompassing love letter to film and women’s place in it.

Web Site Vergil
Subterm 07/01-07/26 (R)
Department Pre-College Program (Barnard)
Enrollment 0 students (15 max) as of 9:14PM Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Subject Theatre Arts (Barnard)
Number BC0180
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20242THFP0180S001