Description: Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisites: courses 430, 434. Workshop in which students rewrite first draft of original screenplay that was written in course 434. Discussion of problems particular to rewrites: how to take notes and make them one's own; how to do deep-read on line-by-line basis of script; overall rewriting strategies; what is best for situation and script. Reading and discussion of student rewrites. Particular attention directed to how people talk about scripts that are not their own; how they avoid giving feedback based on how they might write something and how they move toward giving feedback that honors intention and integrity of script. May be repeated once for credit. Letter grading.

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