COMM450

Students will study current successful web series, and then conceive, write, produce, advertise, and post to the web a five-episode original web series in this writing- and production-intensive Capstone course. Students will share all the duties of writing, directing, editing, and marketing with an emphasis on story, character, collaboration, and meeting strict deadlines. The course will: (1) provide students with the skills and practice necessary to create original scripted content for the New Media landscape; (2) introduce students to the collaborative, deadline-intensive experience of working in a TV or web series "Writer's Room," where stories are generated, "broken," written, and re-written as a group; (3) offer students the opportunity to apply their various directing, production, and post-production skills to a large scale group project; and (4) produce a final project of sufficient quality for use as a resume piece when looking for film industry work or applying to graduate school.