CINE 365 - Writing for Adaptation

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

CINEMA

Description:

Many successful screenplays are adapted from other sources. In this course, students will find pre-existing material, whether it is a book, short story, song, biography, or graphic novel, and develop it into a feature or web series or short script. Students are encouraged to obtain the rights to any materials they choose to adapt or locate and find open source material. Prerequisite: CINE 305. Course Objectives (1) Locate and identify the narrative through line in long form prose works. (2) Identify and develop protagonists, antagonists, and other character archetypes to be developed in transition from prose material, short stories, novels, etc. into screenplay form. (3) Employ visual storytelling techniques to internal passages of written prose work. (4) Find story Point of View in third person work and ensemble stories. (5) Evaluate where to condense story and employ elliptical storytelling. (6) Adapt and write story works from other source materials. (7) Discern how to secure the rights of copy written work - fiction and nonfiction. (8) Create a completely adapted work for the screen from an existing piece of prose writing.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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