FMS 281: Course Application Form

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This course provides an overview of the fundamentals of screenwriting. Combining lectures and script analyses, students focus on character development, story structure, conflict, and dialogue featured in academy award-winning screenplays. Students begin with three creative story ideas, developing one concept into a full-length screenplay of their own. Through in-class read-throughs and rewrites, students are required to complete ~30 pages of a full-length screenplay with a detailed outline of the entire story. Graded only. Prerequisites: FMS 150 or ARS 162 with FMS 150 strongly encouraged. Course application required. Enrollment limited to 12. {A}

Please note that your application will be accessible to all FMS faculty and administrative staff, as faculty collaborate on forming course rosters and administrative staff help manage applications.

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Are you a Film & Media Studies major or minor? *

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Besides FMS, are you declared in or planning on other major(s) / minor(s)? If so, note them here: *

In what semester did you take Introduction to Film and Media Studies (FMS 150) or its equivalent on another campus? (if you took an equivalent, tell us what course)
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Why do you want to take this course? What would you like to accomplish in it?
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Have you taken any film or video production or digital art classes? Do you have experience with video production outside of a college class?

Have you taken any other Film & Media Studies classes? Please list them.

What types of filmmaking interest you the most?
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In this course, we will write ~30 pages of a screenplay within the narrative, documentary, and experimental/hybrid modes. Please write a brief, general description of a project you might like to develop in the course.
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