THEA 284
Writing for Film, Video, and Performance
Spring 2013
Division I
Writing Skills
Cross-listed
ARTS 284
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Class Details
This is a writing workshop for the time-based arts. We will study the use of language in a variety of kinds of film, video, and performance-based artworks. We will study examples in avant-garde film, video art, performance art, essay films, and explore the use of language and syntax of these forms in relation to, and in contrast with, popular cultural forms. The second half of the course will focus primarily on narrative screenwriting. The main goal of this course is to identify and generate a thematic, tonal, and narrative sensibility that is specific to each student. Students will create monologues, voiceovers, screenplays and avant-garde forms, and will also write several response papers about the use of language in film, video, and performance.
The Class:
Format: studio
Limit: 19
Expected: 10
Class#: 3567
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 10
Class#: 3567
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
grades will be based on in-class writing, weekly assignments, participation in workshop discussion and critiques, and video-sketches that visually demonstrate ideas generated through writing
Enrollment Preferences:
students will be asked for writing samples
Distributions:
Division I
Writing Skills
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ARTS 284 Division I THEA 284 Division I
ARTS 284 Division I THEA 284 Division I
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THEA 284 - 01 (S) STU Writing Film,Video,Perfmnce
THEA 284 - 01 (S) STU Writing Film,Video,PerfmnceDivision I Writing SkillsJoshua ThorsonW 1:10 pm - 3:50 pm
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