Learning Objectives

To learn about the craft of filmmaking and role of the screenwriter within the filmmaking process. To examine a first-person documentary narrative from a screenwriter's point of view, focusing on the kinds of information needed to create a story that will bring the past to life on film. To gather contextual details required for a film treatment through historical research. To consider the relationship between historical narrative and the storytelling conventions of film. To produce a film scenario and script a scene based on the life of a historical figure.