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Complementing the course in Screenwriting for Film/Media 1, this course prepares students for writing for documentary. The scriptwriter?s contribution to the genesis, structuring and pitching of a documentary project is reviewed and practiced. Textual/visual research, planning, and organizing the structure and story, visualization, and writing narration is undertaken. Planning and practice includes decisions about genre, approach, point-of-view, narrative spectrum and the building and nurturing of vital relationships with subjects. Students develop proposals with an accompanying trailer/demo and practice the art of the verbal pitch that together constitute a compelling presentation of premise, characters, story and style of a focused character-based documentary film project
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