![]() ![]() In order to examine how a story might be told for different ages, the main project for the course will be to adapt a single fairy tale/fable/myth/legend as a picture book for Children, a short story/TV episode/short film for Middle Grade audiences, and a short story/TV episode/short film for Young Adults. As an extension of this, we will be working on stories designed for each of the age groups. The main focus of this month will be analyzing children’s texts the considerations that need to be taken into account when writing for children. – Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson, Square Fish ![]() – Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher, Razorbill – The Giver, Lois Lowry, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children – Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar, HarperCollins – The Writer’s Guide to Crafting Stories for Children, Nancy Lamb, Writer’s Digest Books – Scriptwriting software with ability to convert to PDF via save or print (e.g., Final Draft) – Word processing program with ability to convert to PDF via save or print (e.g., Word or Pages) –ğSO 3.0-compatible browser (i.e., Firefox or Google Chrome) – explored opportunities in the industry for writing children’s entertainment and using the skills from this class. – reviewed narrative techniques for writing characters, plot, dialogue, suspense, humor, description, and others and applied those techniques to writing for children and young adults and – analyzed a classic fairy tale, fable, or myth and executed a retelling of that story for three different age groups – analyzed classic and contemporary examples of children’s books, television, and movies – learned the different audiences, formats, and markets under the umbrella of children’s entertainment This course provides an overview of classic literature, television, and film for three different age groups: children (ages 0-6), juvenile/middle grade (ages 7-12), and young adult (ages 13-18), and places it within the context of writing for those groups.īy the end of this course, students will have: The Children’s Entertainment course introduces students to writing content for young people. We look at books, television, and films aimed at the three major age groups–children (0-6), middle grade/juvenile (7-12), and young adult (13-18)–and examine what writers are doing in and what publishers and studios are expecting out of entertainment for young people. In this course, we study writing aimed at people from birth to the age of 18. In August 2014, I was promoted to Course Director for Children’s Entertainment, a course in the Creative Writing for Entertainment BFA Program at Full Sail University. ![]()
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