Describes a production-oriented course designed to give students experience in writing for film and knowledge of screenwriting techniques and film planning activities. (PD)

A professional scriptwriter describes a semester course he teaches in which students are required to write 12 scripts. (PD)

A survey of 200 colleges and universities was undertaken to determine to what extent a multicultural approach was used to prepare students to write screenplays for multicultural audiences. Content of scriptwriting courses was also analyzed and instructor attitudes assessed. Although teachers agreed stereotyping was undesirable, few included the…

A summer English class for gifted fifth- through eighth-grade students was designed to allow students to interact with literature by adapting short-stories into plays that the students then produced, performed, and filmed. During the prewriting phase, students discussed qualities most essential to a story or film, and compared a short story with…