Film and TV Writing
- Develops Skills for Film and TV Screenwriting
- Provides Tips on Selling Your Work
- Explores Job Opportunities in the Field
These courses provide you with the specialized skills needed to write a screenplay or a pilot for a film or television series. Through hands-on exercises you will gain an understanding of how the written word is translated to the screen, while becoming familiar with structure, characterization, dialogue, and scene-writing techniques. In addition, you will learn about the business aspects of the field—how to sell your writing and get your screenplay or script produced.
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Adaptations for the Screen
Learn how to adapt novels and short stories into dynamic scripts for the screen, translating fictional prose into visual drama.
Advanced Screenwriting
Develop new screenwriting material or revise a completed script, and discuss your work during private interview sessions with the instructor.
Advanced Television Writing
The collaborative workshop encourages students with prior TV writing or screenwriting experience to write or rewrite a script for television.
Beginning Screenwriting
Learn the basic elements of dramatic writing with an emphasis on theme, dialogue, and characterization.
Screenwriting: An Exercise-Based Approach
This complete course in screenwriting teaches you the tools of the trade and gets you writing from the first day.
Scriptwriting with the Greats
Each week, watch and discuss selections from acclaimed movie and TV writers, and then complete scriptwriting exercises inspired by what you saw.
TV Spec Writing: The Sample Script to Start Your Career
Study TV scripts by award-winning writers, and then write a spec TV script of your own.
Writing a Screenplay in Eight Weeks
This intensive writing course takes you from story idea to first draft of a feature-length screenplay in eight weeks.
Writing and Developing a Series for Television
Learn all you need to fully develop and professionally present your idea for a continuing or limited series for cable, network, or the web.
The Art of the Pitch: Film and TV
Create and hone your own three- to five-minute teaser pitch for a film or TV project, and learn how to sell yourself and your project.
Writing and Directing the Short Film
Learn the fundamentals of screenwriting and preproduction by writing and preparing to direct a five-minute short film.
Writing Your TV Pilot
Learn tools specific to writing an original pilot, whether a network procedural, a quirky web series, or an edgy comedy for cable or streaming.
Reaching for Representation: Agents, Managers, and Lawyers for Film and TV Writers
Learn how the services provided by managers, agents, and lawyers differ and how these keys figures can help to launch your film or TV writing career.
Acting, Producing, and Directing for TV Writers
Gain insights into the world of television writing by experiencing how actors, producers, and directors work.
Character-Driven Film and TV Script Boot Camp
Learn the basics of dramatic writing for film and TV, with an emphasis on character-driven stories generally found in independent cinema and TV.
Film and Television Reviewing and Recapping
Learn how to write effective film and television reviews and how to market them.
Movie Writing "with" the Coen Brothers
Each week, watch and discuss a Coen brothers’ film, and then complete a screenwriting exercise inspired by what you saw.
Script to Screen: Oscar-Winning Screenplays
Explore the development process of award-winning screenplays, as they transform from script to screen to Oscar winner.
Script to Screen: Selections from The Black List
Read screenplays that have appeared on The Black List, an annual ranking of the best scripts that have not yet been made into feature films.
Summer Intensive in Television Writing
As an amateur or professional writer for television, take your writing project to the next level.
Writing the Half-Hour TV Comedy
If you are interested in writing for a comedy TV series, this course will take you from pitch to outline to completion of a half-hour spec script.