PWS 365 Writing for Video and Cinema (3 credits)

This course examines the defining place of writing in the directing, the editing and the scripting of texts for video and cinema. To learn the many kinds of composition involved in this process, students will work to construct documentary, advertising and dramatic film productions. In this process, students will become knowledgeable of the digital cameras and editorial computer technologies involved in filmmaking; however, the writing of prose and dialogue will be the main concentration of the course.