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What Do You Learn The First Week Of An MFA Screenwriting Class? by Marty Lang via FilmCourage.com.

Film Courage: We’d like to hear about your first day or week in the MFA screenwriting program. What topics were initially taught? Was everything an introduction to the courses?

Marty Lang, Screenwriter/Director and Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Central Arkansas/Director: It was a little bit of both. The first semester we had three classes. We had an Introduction into Screenplay Analysis and that was with Professor Edson [Eric Edson of California State University Northridge]. That was the beginning of his explanation of screenplay structure. We didn’t actually write in that class but that first class was sort of like a top level introduction to the terms he would be using, kind of a general overview of what the structure paradigm is and then sort of an assignment where we had to watch a film and then break down the first act of that film of what happens in every single scene...(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).