FAS 349 - Introduction to Dramatic Writing

3 credits

 
Introduction to Dramatic Writing will inspire the students to write creatively and dramatically by opening up their imaginative and inventive resources. It will focus on factors essential to drama, including an overview of the language used by actors and improvisers, to enable the students to write their first plays. Upon completion of this course, each student will have submitted two short dramatic works: a one-act play (for the stage) AND a screen adaptation of that selfsame play (approx. 20-25 pages each), a graphic novel of the story (8-10 pages), or a design narrative for a video game (3-4 pages with additional graphs and models). These pieces will demonstrate creative control of characterization, dramatic action, tension, and conflict, dialogue, structure, and medium, as well as a knowledge of the professionally accepted formats of playwriting and/or screenwriting. The student will also gain experience in hearing their own work "read," hearing the work of other students, and giving and receiving critical response to those works.