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How to: • take an idea for a screenplay from con- cept to completed script English Department • write in correct spec screenplay format 765-285-8580 • understand the core ideas of narrative www.bsu.edu/english story development and visual storytelling • read films and scripts from the per- spective of the screenwriter/storytell- er’s craft Professor Cathy Day • write a script for potential production Assistant Chair of Operations via BSU’s Cinema Entertainment [email protected] Immersion (CEI)

Resources: • Cinema Entertainment Immersion (CEI) Minor in • Engaged faculty • Small class sizes Film/Screenwriting • Visiting Writers Series • Intensive writing workshops • National lit. magazine, The Broken Plate

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The minor in film and screenwriting ENG 285: Intro. to Creative Writing delivers a foundation in film theory/analysis Introduction to the craft, terminology, and techniques of mul- while enabling you to learn the ins and outs tiple genres, including fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. of compelling storytelling for the screen. ENG 310: Screenwriting Introduction to screenwriting for television, film, or new With its unique focus on both film media, with practice in writing and critique. theory and screenwriting craft, the minor ENG 410: Advanced Screenwriting in screenwriting will help you grow the Advanced screenwriting for television, film, or new media, storytelling and story analysis skills that with emphasis on developing scripts for production. are marketable in the media and entertain- ENG 425: Film Studies ment industries and beyond. An investigation of film as text within the field of English studies, focusing on the stylistic and narrative systems as You’ll develop a greater understanding well as the process of artistic creation in cinema. 18 Credit Hours of how films work and what they can mean. TCOM 360: World Film History 1 English Courses: You’ll get a sense of where film came from History of world cinema from its beginning until World ENG 285: Intro. to Creative Writing and where it’s going, practice the creative War II. ENG 310: Screenwriting and analytical skills employers value, and put TCOM 361 World Film History 2 ENG 410: Adv. Screenwriting the movies in your mind’s eye onto the page. Continues the study of world cinema from World War II until the present. (OR) TCOM 363: Film Genres ENG 425: Film Studies Study of the general types and forms of film expressions,

I like to make movies each identified with a specific tradition. Film genres include Telecommunications Courses: in my head. The film/ westerns, screwball comedies, gangster films, musicals, etc. TCOM 360: World Film History 1

screenwriting minor TCOM 365: Documentary Film History TCOM 363: Film Genres “ Examines the practical, social, and economic relation- showed me how to “ TCOM 361: World Film History 2 translate them into ships between two major areas of American popular culture--the electronic media and sports. (OR) something tangible, TCOM 465: Seminar in Film Theory TCOM 465: Seminar in Film Theory an actual script I can Analysis of the key theorists in the history of world cin- (OR) hold in my hands. ema as well as some influential critics of film. Includes a TCOM 365: Doc. Film History - Becca Davila, Screenwriting Minor special focus on the documentary film.