Scriptwriting I
From outline to script. Writing for the ear, not the page. Hook writing as a discipline.
- Lectures
- 7
- Total runtime
- 3h 57m
- Attendance minimum
- 1h 59m
- Prerequisites
- NAR-101 Storytelling I: Foundations of Narrative
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- Day 1: Identity and Genre; Part 2 (20.219) Before you write a word: host identity and the genre you are writing inside 37 min Attended
- Day 2: STEM Nuggets; Part 1 (20.219) Scoping the idea: reducing a subject to a single deliverable unit — the outline stage 36 min Attended
- Day 3: Storyteller's Toolkit Pt. I: Verbal Storytelling/Writing for the Spoken Word; Part 2 (20.219) Writing for the ear: turning an outline into a script meant to be spoken and heard once 26 min Attended
- How to Speak (MIT IAP 2018) Hook writing as a discipline: the opening promise, and the structural devices that keep a listener with you 64 min Attended
- Stylish Academic Writing | Steven Pinker Sentence-level craft: classic style and the single biggest cause of unreadable writing 27 min Attended
- Stylish Academic Writing | Helen Sword The revision pass: diagnosing your own draft sentence by sentence and cutting what makes it heavy to hear 27 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator How To Write A Killer Script That Keeps Viewers Hooked Lecture 2's outline-first discipline and Lecture 4's opening promise put into practice: a working creator walks one script end to end, from outline to intro to body to close 20 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Kallaway — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.