television 40-3230 - Master Workshop Sketch Comedy:Writing & Producing

Institution:

Columbia College-Chicago

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Description:

This is an advanced class designed to teach the skills needed to write and produce proficiently within the popular television genre of sketch comedy. This class will require students to create and write original sketches and commercial parodies. The sketch ideas will be pitched, improvised, drafted, read, reviewed, and revised step by step, in a classic "writer's table?tory conference procedure before moving on to the rehearsal and taping process. Students will also serve as producers, supervising all aspects of the pre-production process in order to facilitate a busy production schedule. Working with a post-production supervisor and student editors, students will also oversee aspects of post-production editing, music, and graphics. Students will collaborate closely with the students and instructors of the Television Directing Production: Sketch Comedy class, with a strong emphasis on the teamwork necessary to produce a project of this nature. The end product of this collaboration will be a broadcast of the Columbia College original sketch comedy show "Out On A Limb" on Channel 20,WYCC. 4 CREDI TS PREREQUISITES: 40-2100 TELEVISION ARTS: WRITING

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colum.edu

Phone Number:

(312) 663-1600

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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