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Fall Break: Lesson/Topic Assignment Due Date Points Possible

This document outlines a 15-week online screenwriting course. It includes assignments like discussion boards, journal entries, group assignments and script drafts. Students are expected to introduce themselves, analyze characters, outline and write a script, and provide feedback on scripts. The course aims to help students understand screenwriting structures for film, television and web series and develop their own script for one of those media formats.

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Fall Break: Lesson/Topic Assignment Due Date Points Possible

This document outlines a 15-week online screenwriting course. It includes assignments like discussion boards, journal entries, group assignments and script drafts. Students are expected to introduce themselves, analyze characters, outline and write a script, and provide feedback on scripts. The course aims to help students understand screenwriting structures for film, television and web series and develop their own script for one of those media formats.

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Lesson/Topic Assignment Due Date Points

Possible
Week One: Introduction Discussion Board: Acquire Textbook and introduce yourself to August 25th 50
your classmates By 11:59PM

Week Two: Discussion Board: In your own words describe how September 1st 50
What is Screenwriting? screenwriting differs from other forms of literary writing. By 11:59PM

Week Three: Journal Entry: Determine what media format you would like September 8th 50
Screenwriting for different your final project to be written for. Do you want your final By 11:59PM
media formats project to be written for Film, Television or Web Series? Explain
why.
Week Four: Journal Entry: Provide a brief description of the premise for your September 50
Crafting an Idea script project and create a logline. 15th
By 11:59PM

Week Five: Group Assignment: Groups will breakdown the key elements of September 100
Screenwriting structure for a short script of their choice. They will need to provide a diagram 22nd
Film of the script and a 1-2-page paper of the breakdown. By 11:59PM

Week Six: Discussion Board: Identify a web series with compelling writing. September 50
Screenwriting Structure for Describe elements of the writing that you enjoy. Note: you 29th
Television and Web cannot use the same series as one already selected by your By 11:59PM
classmates.
Week Seven: Assignment Paper: Write a 2-4 page analysis of your main October 6th 200
Character Analysis characters. Describe their major flaws, their desire and needs. By 11:59PM
Describe their physical appearance. Be as specific as possible

Week Eight: Script Outline Journal Entry: Create an outline of your script project, be sure to October 13th 50
provide the major plot points. For film, include your inciting By 11:59PM
incident, mid-point turn, crisis and resolution. For Television,
include your cold open, teaser, all acts based on length and tag.
Fall Break
Week Nine: Creating Discussion Board: Provide a link to a scene from a movie or October 27th 50
Dialogue television show which showcases the elements of dialogue By 11:59PM
covered in the lesson
Week Ten: Script Script Project Assignment: Write a rough draft of your script November 3rd 150
Formatting By 11:59PM

Week Eleven: Treatment Journal Entry: Write a treatment for your script November 10th 50
By 11:59PM

Week Twelve: Script Project Assignment: You will be assigned to critique one November 17th 100
Feedback and script analysis of your classmates’ scripts and provide hones feedback By 11:59PM

Week Thirteen: Script Project Assignment: You will use the feedback from your November 24th 100
Effectively Rewriting a classmates to rewrite your script By 11:59PM
Screenplay

Thanksgiving Break
Week Fourteen: Table Read Group Assignment: Each group will complete a table read of December 8th 100
each script in the group and provide 1-2 paragraphs to each By 11:59PM
author.
Week Fifteen: Discussion Board: Identify the submission process for entering a December 15th 50
Industry Submissions script in a festival or to a literary agent. Describe how this festival By 11:59PM
would benefit your script.
Script Project Assignment: Complete and submit the final draft 300
of your script

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