Students learn the various roles that the story script fulfills as the primary conceptualizing, defining, and guiding document for the media production process. Writing projects and exercises walk students through the process of script development for television and motion picture production, exploring essential story elements such as narrative form, dramatic tension and conflict, character development, plot, point of view, dialogue, and setting as well as the structural demands of the industry formats including legal and professional issues. Prerequisite: ENG 101 and either ENG 102 or ENG 103 or COM 103 or SCI 103