<p>Lecture, three hours. Recommended requisite: course 131. Examination of one-hour drama and dramedy formats, covering style, content, and structural analysis. Review of principles behind network needs and how pilots are chosen across broadcast, cable and digital platforms. Students write series outline and first draft of original pilot series. Open to works in progress and rewrites. Offered summer only. Letter grading. </p>

Film and Television

The school's comprehensive arts curriculum gives motivated students the means to challenge the constructs around them as multifaceted artists and scholars, filled with the knowledge, insight, and point of view to create meaningful experiences pointing toward a better world.

School of Theater, Film, and Television

The department takes professional and scholarly approaches to the study of media, and helps students discover their power as independent artists and communicators.

General Catalog

Intermediate Television Writing One-Hour Drama/Half-Hour Dramedy Series

FILM TV 133B

6 or 8 units