Online Screenwriting Workshop (Credit)
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Course Number:
CMP 386 Y - Undergraduate
CMP 586 Y - Graduate
Credits:
3
Professor:
Price:
Price based on current semester University of Miami tuition charges.
Course Overview:
Have you thought there’s a terrific screenplay in your head? Do you know you have the ideas but lack only the experience to get them down in screenplay form? Have you always wanted to get expert feedback that helped shape your idea into a marketable finished product?
Now all of this can be achieved online, on your time schedule. Dr. Paul Lazarus, Director of the University of Miami’s prestigious Motion Picture Program will work one-on-one to assist you in planning, outlining, and commencing your feature-length screenplay.
Winner of two national screenwriting competitions and producer of six acclaimed Hollywood films, Dr. Lazarus has guided hundreds of aspiring screenwriters during his years in Hollywood and with UM’s School of Communication. Now, he will bring his years of experience to assist you, online and in the privacy of your home. With this unprecedented opportunity: refine your idea, develop the principal characters, prepare a step outline of your plot, perfect your screenplay format, and receive extensive comments on your actual screenplay pages.
Required Software:
Final Draft 8
Required Text:
- Bowles, Stephen & Zorn, Peter, The Screenwriter's Manual (available in University Bookstore).
- Lazarus, Tom, The Secrets of Film Writing, St. Martin's P., 2001.