This studio is a screenwriting/screen production collaboration between students of the and Media and Creative Writing programs.
Tutors Robin Plunkett and Stayci Taylor.
The motion picture serial is nearly as old as the cinema itself. What then, distinguishes a web series from, for example, a television series? Is it only the means of its delivery; the platform from which it is accessed? How does the relative brevity of its constituent parts (the webisode), the device on which it may be viewed, and the possible circumstances of that viewing, influence or determine its overall form and content?
In this studio, we will explore the idiosyncratic and potentially unique possibilities offered by the web series. Students from the Bachelor of Communication (Media) and the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) will collaborate by investigating some of these possibilities, develop technical skills and produce our own web series. In the collaboration, the Media students will focus primarily on production and distribution. The Creative Writers will be primarily concerned with the conceptual development of narrative elements, likely pitching ideas (individually, and then in small groups) according to a production brief. The italics are there for a reason: there will also be plenty of opportunity and/or necessity for tasks and groups to combine.
By recreating the real-world conditions of a production house, you will gain valuable insight into relevant industry practices by planning, pitching, creating and exploring screenplays and screenworks specific to serial dramas and web series.
Forming multidisciplinary teams, you will prototype different ways of working with scripts and screen production practices.
You may be interested to check out the collaborative studios that ran in 2015 and 2016: Filming for Writing, Writing for Film (Paul Ritchard and Stayci Taylor) and Good Form: Producing/Writing the Comedy Web Series (Jeremy Bowtell and Stayci Taylor).
5 hours x 12 weeks (+ independent group work)
We meet:
Tuesdays 3.30 – 5.20 in Rooms 10.2.62 (Media students) and 9.2.10 – The Bowen Street Press (Creative Writing students)
and
Fridays 2.30 – 5.20 in Rooms 12.2.104 (Media students) and 56.7.91 (Creative Writing students).
Sometimes we will meet all together, or mix you up across both venues.
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