The Webisodics Project/Web Series Asylum

“The Web Series Asylum” is a unique interdisciplinary, collaborative, yearlong course between filmmaking and theatre that collides screenwriters, actors, and filmmakers to develop, craft, and deliver an original online Web series. This class will be team-taught by filmmaking/screenwriting instructor Fred Strype and Theatre instructor Douglas MacHugh. In the fall semester, from the varied disciplines involved in writing, acting, and filmmaking, the Web series team will explore characters, story threads, performance, and working within a film-production environment. As the screenplays are developed, workshopped, and rewritten, the filmmakers will be shooting and editing the weekly staged readings, as performed by the actors. The class will analyze writing, filmmaking, and performance; adjustments and revisions will be made throughout the process, as the episodes begin to emerge. In the spring, the Web series screenplay will be finalized, rehearsed, and the series shot. Students will then be involved in analyzing the editing process. The posting of the edited episodes will begin after spring break, with the aim of the series being fully online by Senior Week. In the latter weeks of the spring semester, the writers and actors will workshop table reads and staged readings of original material developed and revised in conference by the screenwriters. The actors will gain further experience working with the filmmakers, as these workshops will be shot and edited, as well. The outcome from this past year’s course is the Web series, “Socially Active,” and can be viewed online at: http://vimeo.com/channels/sociallyactive or http://www.youtube.com/user/sociallyactiveweb. Enrollment is limited. Permission of the instructors is required.