Focused on feature film screenplays and designed for students with prior experience writing a screenplay, the Advanced Screenwriting course will look deeper into how scene composition and story structure are used to create vivid and compelling narratives for a feature length film, and the further development of well-rendered characters and other tools to improve a writer’s visual storytelling skills. Students will read and discuss a variety of scripts over the fourteen weeks, and will submit, as a final project, full-length script for a feature film (90 pp to 120 pp). This class will also involve workshop-style student submissions and critical discussions of student work in-progress. The course will run once a week, for two hours, over fourteen weeks, for 2 credits, and will be offered as remote only, all students and faculty working synchronously online. Preference will be given to students who have already completed either Screenwriting: Scene & Structure or Screenwriting: The Story Studio.
Learning Outcomes:
Delivery Method: Entirely remote (synchronous)
Prerequisites:Students should submit up to five pages of poetry or prose (critical or creative) or up to 15 pages of script (film or play) to manuelgonzales@bennington.edu by Thursday, November 12. Students will be notified of acceptance into the class on Tuesday, November 17.
Corequisites: Please note that students enrolled in this course are required to attend Poetry at Bennington and Literature Evening events on Wednesday nights at 7:00 PM.Â
Course Level: 4000-level
Credits: 2
Th 1:40PM - 3:30PM (Full-term)
Maximum Enrollment: 15
Course Frequency: Every 2-3 years
Categories: All courses , Entirely Remote , Literature
Tags: creative writing , screenwriting , workshop