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This pre-production course brings together student filmmakers from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU), providing intensive training in the crucial aspects of preparing to shoot a successful narrative film. Students work with a professional screenwriter, allowing students to hone and improve their existing screenplays, practice the elements of writing for film, and learn how to do a script breakdown. Workshops on working with actors, taught by a professional actor, will teach students the ins and outs of casting and directing. Supplemental workshops will cover elements of pre-production such as budgets, production schedules, call sheets, and legal issues. Film screenings will train students to see films with an eye towards what constitutes exciting, innovative filmmaking.   Students who wish to enroll in this course should have a prepared treatment, outline or script for a short film that they wish to develop during the semester. This course may be taken independently or as the prelude and prerequisite to Narrative Productions in the spring. Be advised that students who wish to enroll in the production course, Narrative Productions MUST have first completed Acting and Screenwriting for Narrative Productions.