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Script Revision

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
300MSR Z 4 6/D English winter
Subject guarantor:
Pavel JECH
Name of lecturer(s):
Pavel JECH
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

During the module students will learn the process of professional script revision. The module and the screenwriting revision work will be in English.

Mode of study:

seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Script Revision is open to students who have a completed first draft of a screenplay. During the module students will learn the process of professional script revision. The module and the screenwriting revision work will be in English.

Recommended optional programme components:

none

Course contents:

SCRIPT REVISION MODULE

The Script Revision Workshop is an intensive close analysis of screenplay dramaturgy that prepares the writer for a page one rewrite.

This workshop includes an intense examination of all the components of narrative story structure including Character, Plot, Thematic construction and visual Style. Using deep analysis, deconstruction, and a method of reconstruction, the writer gains deep understanding of his story ambitions and is able, through supervised revision, to fully realize his narrative goals for his screenplay.

In intensive class meetings and individual tutorials the writer is taught a method of sequencing the screenplay action and tracking the characters in their relations to each other and arriving, finally, at deep understanding of the screenplay's dramatic structure, it's narrative strategies, and it's larger thematic ambitions.

Recommended or required reading:

none

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

module

Assessment methods and criteria:

100% attendance

Course web page:
Note:

Professor Brendan Ward of Columbia University, in New York will direct the Revision Workshop.

Brendan N. Ward?s career in film and television balances writing and producing with teaching a new generation of artists. A professor of Film at Columbia University for over 20 years, he has also taught at film schools in Vietnam, Cuba, and Sweden.

Brendan Ward is an expert at revision and has assisted in the script consulting/ revision of the screenplays of Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids are Alright, High Art) and Kimberly Pierce (Boys Don?t Cry), among many others. His own television writing includes scripts for Maude (Emmy nomination) and for Good Times Harry (CBS). He is currently President of One Hand Clapping Picture.

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
05.01.2015 14:00–17:00 JECH P. Učebna 7
Lažanský palác 		Lecturer: Brendan Ward paralelka 1
07.01.2015 14:00–17:00 JECH P. Učebna 7
Lažanský palác 		paralelka 1
09.01.2015 14:00–17:00 JECH P. Učebna 7
Lažanský palác 		paralelka 1
12.01.2015 14:00–17:00 JECH P. Učebna 7
Lažanský palác 		paralelka 1
14.01.2015 14:00–17:00 JECH P. Učebna 7
Lažanský palác 		paralelka 1
16.01.2015 14:00–17:00 JECH P. Učebna 7
Lažanský palác 		paralelka 1
Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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