One-Hour or Half-Hour TV V: Rewrite

SCRIPT X 422.11

Learn basic rewriting skills as you review your initial draft for opportunities to expand, deepen, and enrich your TV script.

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What you can learn.

Review the choices your characters make and how to intensify the consequences for them
Analyze the pacing of your script to ensure your scenes start and end at the most powerful points
Work in a community of writers to support each other and engage in the process of rewriting collaboratively
Take your pilot or spec of an existing series to the next level with a comprehensive rewrite

About this course:

Whether you've written a one-hour or half-hour tv script, (pilot or a spec of an existing series) your goal is the same: to dig deeper, raise the stakes higher, stretch your characters further to make your script one that will leave an indelible mark on its readers. If you're writing a pilot, have you introduced us to characters and situations that we want to come back to week after week? If you're writing a spec of an existing show, have you been true to the characters and situations as we know them, and still told a story that is somehow new? In this course, you review the choices your characters make, the consequences of those choices and how to make those consequences more dramatic. You look at your actions, your pacing, your tension and your stakes, among other things. The goal: to improve your one-hour or half-hour script until it's a story that demands the reader's attention.

Prerequisites

SCRIPT X 422.4 One-Hour TV IV, SCRIPT X 422.4N One-Hour TV Intensive IV, SCRIPT X 422.2 Half-Hour TV IV, SCRIPT X 422.2N Half-Hour TV Intensive IV, or SCRIPT X 422.8 Dramedy TV IV, or department approval.