Film Offerings: Summer 2012

The Television Writing Intensive

FILM S3040
6 points
Day & Time: Mondays & Wednesdays, 10 am - 1 pm & 2 - 5 pm; Thursdays, 6 - 8 pm
May 21 - June 28
Instructor: Frank Pugliese, Joe Cacaci, Alan Kingsberg & David Klass

The Television Writing Intensive is a six week long, concentrated and encompassing introduction into the field of television writing, designed to prepare students for the professional worlds of sit-coms, one-hour dramas and police / medical procedurals.  In an interconnected program consisting of two intensive writing workshops and a lecture series with guest writers and professionals in the field, students gain the knowledge and authority to explore, examine and create the kind of groundbreaking work that is taking over cable and making its way onto the Networks, here and around the world. More > >

Screenplay Revision Workshop

Course S4002
3 points
Mon & Wed, 6 - 9 pm
Dates: May 21 - June 27
Instructor: Jessie Keyt

Script Revision is an intensive workshop dedicated to the analysis and rewriting of a feature-length screenplay. Students will bring a completed script in three acts (no less than 90 pp.) into the class, and begin by receiving a detailed analysis of the work by both the instructor and fellow students. Then, with the instructor’s guidance, students will devise a reasonable plan for revising the pages during the time of the workshop. Focus will be on story structure, character development, plotting, dialogue, building of tension, and improving other elements of the screenplay form. Students are expected to read their fellow classmates’ work and provide constructive feedback — part of the emphasis of the class is on learning by critiquing. The goal is to significantly improve the feature-length screenplay, both within the workshop and by providing a template for further refinement once the class is done. More > >

Introduction to Screenwriting

FILM S4037D
3 points
Tues & Thurs, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
May 22 - June 28
Instructor: Guy Gallo

Modern feature-length screenplays demand a specific architecture. In this class students will enter with an idea for a film, and during the first eight sessions build a coherent treatment; that is, a summary of the events and major emotional arcs of the film's three acts. In the final four sessions students will begin and complete the first act of their feature-length screenplay.

Materials Fee: $30

Please note that this fee is in addition to the tuition rate and standard enrollment fees for the course. For more information, please see School of Continuing Education Summer Sessions Tuition & Fees.

Topics in American Cinema: Hollywood Through a Documentary Lens

FILM S3300D
3 points
Mon & Wed, 6:00 - 9:50 pm
May 21 - June 27
Instructor: Leon Falk

Spend part of your summer behind the scenes, watching the best (and coolest) documentaries ever made about filmmaking, and the Hollywood way. Learn what life is like in the belly of the beast ... who tamed it, and who was tamed by it.  Studying the working process of such artists as Francis Coppola, Werner Herzog, Terry Gilliam, John Ford, and Orson Welles, we will learn to appreciate the myriad documentary techniques that tell these often larger-than-life tales.

Materials Fee: $30

Please note that this fee is in addition to the tuition rate and standard enrollment fees for the course. For more information, please see School of Continuing Education Summer Sessions Tuition & Fees.

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Introduction to Study & Theory of Film

FILM S3001Q
3 points
Tues & Thurs, 12:00 - 4:00 pm
July 2 - August 8
Instructor: Nelson Kim

The nature of cinema as a technology, a business, a cultural product, an entertainment medium, and most especially an art form. Study of cinematic genres, stylistics, and nationalities; outstanding film artists and artisans; the relationship of cinema to other art forms and media, as well as to society.

Materials Fee: $30

Please note that this fee is in addition to the tuition rate and standard enrollment fees for the course. For more information, please see School of Continuing Education Summer Sessions Tuition & Fees.

Auteur Study: Steven Spielberg

FILM S4138Q
3 points
Tues & Thurs 6 - 10 pm
July 3 - August 9
Instructor: Stuart Weinstock

Spielberg may be the world’s most influential living film director. This course will analyze the content and formal construction of his films by following their thematic through-lines – family ties (strained and otherwise), the implacable threat, humanity at war, man vs. the natural world, the child’s perspective – in films as disparate as Jaws and The Terminal. Additional topics for discussion include: Spielberg’s close collaborations with Truffaut on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Kubrick on A.I.; the preponderance of period films in his oeuvre; the evolution of Spielberg’s approach to depicting violence; contributions as a producer and studio chief.  We will discuss his origins in the “New Hollywood” of the 1970’s; the formative influence of directors like Ford, Lean, Capra, as well as the aesthetic sensibilities of the French New Wave.

Materials Fee: $30

Please note that this fee is in addition to the tuition rate and standard enrollment fees for the course. For more information, please see School of Continuing Education Summer Sessions Tuition & Fees.

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