How to turn a drama screen play into a comedy?

OBJECTIVES: To engage in revision by converting a story or script from one genre to another.

WORD COUNT: 1,000-1,500 words of story, or 5-8 pages of script

WEIGHT: 20%

LITERARY GENRE 1: COMEDY AND TRAGEDY

Assignment 2: Genre Flip

After completing all of your Week 2 Lessons and readings, choose a work you’ve previously written in this program. Apply the principles of comedy or tragedy to your already established story or script by revising the work you’ve chosen into a comedy or tragedy.

If you choose a tragic or dramatic piece from a previous class, you will convert it into a comedy using comedic elements of character psychology and narrative structure. If you choose a comedy from a previous class, you will convert it into a tragedy using tragic elements of character psychology and narrative structure.

Save your completed Genre Flip first draft as a Word or PDFdocument titled LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_FLIP and upload it to FSO. Also, post your draft to the Discussion 3: Workshop discussion board.

You must upload your Genre Flip to this activity and post to the Discussion 3: Workshop discussion board to be eligible for full credit on this assignment.

! Helpful Hints: For most of you, this will be an act of extreme revision, however writers in the entertainment industry are frequently expected to make changes to scripts, treatments, and copy. This might be expected of you if producers “like" your work but need a comedy in their production stable. Likewise, in the literary world, agents or editors frequently request revisions. A publisher may even decide to cut an entire half of your book to best serve the overall story, causing you to have to rewrite that portion.

LITERARY GENRE 1: COMEDY AND TRAGEDY

Masterwork Rubric

Criteria Content and Form Technical Production and Editing Skills

95-100

Near perfect; professional, solid, engaging, inspiring, and daring Delivers palpable tension and strong characters, dialogue, and plot !

Masterful editing Free of errors Near publishable

90-94

Strong but needs fine tuning Demonstrates a strong knowledge of course concepts Demonstrates keen understanding of character, dialogue, plot, and theme

Strong editing skills Work could use more polish to correct pacing issues or clean up messy edits

85-89

Meets requirements but relies on clichés or conventions; lacks inspiration More time is needed to develop character, plot, and/or conflict Shows promise

! Student understands revision, but work requires more editing to fix errors

80-84

Touches on necessary elements of character, plot, and conflict but doesn’t develop them Demonstrates an understanding of the assignment

New approach is needed for revising/editing this work

73-79 Demonstrates limited understanding of assignment but does not deliver on key course concepts More revision needed

Poor editing prevents a clear understanding of some of the work

70-72 Does not meet minimum requirements Does not demonstrate key course concepts

Lack of editing prevents a clear understanding of the work as a whole

69- Below

Work is incomplete Assignment ignores key course concepts

Editing and/or revision is not clearly attempted