FILM TV 438Advanced Screenwriting: Rewrite
Film and Television · 8 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Workshop in which students rewrite first draft of original screenplay that was written in course 434. Discussion of problems particular to rewrites: how to take notes and make them one's own; how to do deep-read on line-by-line basis of script; overall rewriting strategies; what is best for situation and script. Reading and discussion of student rewrites. Particular attention directed to how people talk about scripts that are not their own; how they avoid giving feedback based on how they might write something and how they move toward giving feedback that honors intention and integrity of script. May be repeated once for credit.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 430, 434.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
FILM TV 438
- FILM TV 430Introduction to Film and Television Writing
- FILM TV 434Advanced Screenwriting
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.