Writing For Cinema Tv

AY2025/2026 Semester 1

Writing for Cinema and Television teaches the scripting of film screenplays with an emphasis on the short film form. This course examines the craft of structuring stories, the techniques of writing and developing stories for the visual medium. Topics include pitching, development, storyline, character, genre, narrative structure, scene construction, dialogue and transmedia approaches. In this course, structural analysis is balanced with the development of creative intuition skills. The semester concludes with class readings of your completed screenplay in order to ensure your industry-readiness.