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. Learn more about the Certificate in Television and Screenwriting.
This Summer, study from anywhere in the world in the safety and comfort of your home through online or remote instruction.
Beginning Screenwriting
Learn the basic elements of dramatic writing with an emphasis on theme, dialogue, and characterization.
Writing Great Characters for Film and TV
Through in-class exercises, lectures, television/movie watching, and writing assignments, learn how to create detailed, compelling characters.
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 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.
Writing and Directing the Short Film
Learn the fundamentals of screenwriting and preproduction by writing and preparing to direct a five-minute short film.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Social Media for Storytellers
As a creative professional, learn to harness the power of social media with easily executed strategies and tactics.