STORYTELLING - WRITING A FILM, A NOVEL, REALIZING A PODCAST
Academic Master - 1st level
OBJECTIVES
The master in STORYTELLING provides the participants with the principles and the tools required to analyze and create a story from three pivotal models: literature, theatre drama and film. The presence and experience of a teaching staff made up of professionals from these three sectors will guide the student through a didactic and human pathway, offering him/her a bridge to the world of work in the artistic field. At the end of the master course, each participant will be the author of a PODCAST that will be produced and recorded by eCampus.
TARGET STUDENTS
The master is aimed at aspiring authors, critics and professionals in the fields of publishing, theatre, cinema, television and web, aiming to turn their passion into a profession. At the same time, the master is aimed at professionals in other sectors willing to learn how to organise effective communication through STORYTELLING.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:
- SCRIPTWRITER - AUTHOR - PLAYWRIGHT - THEATRE DIRECTOR - FILM DIRECTOR - EDITOR - SCENARIO WRITER - RADIO AUTHOR - PROOFREADER
- STORYEDITOR - FILM CRITIC - THEATRE CRITIC- PRODUCER - EDITOR
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/FILM PRODUCTION - ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/THEATRICAL PRODUCTION - ASSISTANT PUBLISHER - PROMOTER FOR CINEMA, THEATRE AND LITERATURE
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree or Specialist Degree attained according to the old system or to the new system (established by D. M. 509/99). Participation to the Master is incompatible with the enrollment to other masters, degree courses, doctorates and specialization courses.
LEARNING PATHWAY:
| Subject | SSD | CFU | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|
WRITE A SCREENPLAY
| L-ART/06 | 6 | FABRIZI RICCARDO Pupil of Piero De Bernardi, he wrote the screenplay for the docufiction My name is Ernest (2014 – broadcast on Rai5) and the film Una nobile causa (2016). He wrote the theatrical monologue Il titolo non me lo ricordo, which earned him the Tragos Ernesto Calindri Prize in 2020. He wrote and directed the short filmPrincipessa (2020), interpreted by Arturo Muselli and Rosa Diletta Rossi, selected in national and international festivals, winner for the categories: Best Director, Audience Award, Best Actor and Best Photography. |
NARRATION THROUGH IMAGES
| L-ART/06 | 6 | |
HISTORY OF CINEMATIC NARRATION
| L-ART/06 | 9 | COSTA FRANCESCO He wrote the screenplay for the film L'altra donna by Peter del Monte which was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Between 2000 and 2009, he collaborated with Gianni Canova for the monthly magazine "Letture", and wrote 82 entries for the Enciclopedia Treccani Cinema. His first novel was La volte a tre zampe. His novels were published by the major italian publishing houses. His latest novel is Dive del cinema published by Giulio Perrone Editore (2022). |
THEATRE: WRITING AND STAGING
| L-ART/05 | 6 | VALENTINA MARTURINI Actress, playwright, Acting-coach and practical philosopher. She attende the Theatre Academy "Sofia Amendolea" in Rome "Sofia Amendolea". She authored various contemporary plays such as Pinocchio Opera Rock featuring Giorgio Pasotti. She teaches history of theatre and philosophical-theatrical practices at the Theatre Academy in Rome "Il Cantiere Teatrale". She collaborates with the actress Marta Zoffoli as Acting-coach and organizes acting courses and workshops for professional actors. |
EDITING (THE EDITOR'S PROFESSION)
| SPS/08 | 6 | PERISSINOTTO ELISABETTA She carries out the activity of assistant to various professors of Linguistics and Philology. The magazine «Diacritica» published her article on the poem Tiresia di Giuliano Mesa. by Giuliano Mesa on the October 2016 issue. The magazine «Anonianum» published in issue number 4/2019 her review on the book Gillian McCann - Gitte Bechsgaard, The Sacred in Exile. What it Really Means to Lose Our Religion, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. |
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
| L-FIL-LET/11 | 6 | TONELLO ELISABETTA In 2013, she attained a PhD with a final dissertation on Dante philology. She deals primarily with history of the tradition of the text of the Divina Commedia and with the classification of more than 600 remaining manuscripts of the poem. Among her publications it is woth mentioning the monography Sulla tradizione tosco-Fiorentina della Commedia di Dante (secoli XIV-XV), Padova, 2018. She recently published a monography on medieval jesters. L'altra poesia. Aarte giullaresca e letteratura nel basso medioevo, Milano-Udine, 2018. |
WRITING A NOVEL
| SPS/08 | 9 | FABRIZI RICCARDO |
LITERARY GENRES
| L-FIL-LET/10 | 6 | FABRIZI RICCARDO |
WORKSHOP: WRITING A PODCAST
| 2 | FABRIZI RICCARDO | |
| Final Dissertation | 4 |
STRUCTURE AND DURATION
The uniqueness of the master's degree lies in the continuous parallelism between the theory, and thus the precepts of STORYTELLING within the various art forms, and how they are put to use within the working world, thanks to the lecturers' field experience. Everyone who wishes to embark on an artistic path, or to propose a a project of their own will have to face a major obstacle: the world revolves around specific habits and will therefore do everything to reject it, since habits are unlikely to be altered. Hence the need for knowledge of the steps that lead to the completion of a project.The cultural notions provided will give the students a thorough knowledge of the subject, thus contibuting to give substance their preparation. And it is precisely for the need of substatial knowledge that the workshop WRITING A PODCAST was imagined.
The duration of the Master is annual, for a total of 1,500 hours.
The didactic activities will be implemented on the online platform of the university (accessible 24 hours a day).
Planned tests: Written test of the skills acquired for each macromodule, design of a PODCAST and a Final Test.
WORKSHOP: WRITING A PODCAST
THE PODCASTS represent a phenomenon and an expanding market. But how to write a PODCAST? How to organize it? How does it work? What are the elements making up the "behind the scenes"? The WRITE A PODCAST workshop will answer all these questions. After having taken and passed all the exams of the course, the students will be fully able to WRITE A PODCAST. They will be able to imagine their own PODCAST, precisely because they know the rules and principles of STORYTELLING. But what to write about? There are two directions to take. The first is the direction of fiction, which entails the 'invention' of a story as if it were a series. The second direction is that of in-depth study, for which the artistic nature of the STORYTELLING master course will come to the student's aid. In fact, each subject will provide multiple prompts for in-depth writing. For example, in the caser of a PODCAST on a particular period of the HISTORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC NARRATION, the students will have to choose the period they are most passionate about from the aforementioned subject and reinterpret it providing a narration which must be suitable for a PODCAST form.
FINAL DISSERTATION
The discussion of the final dissertation will focus on the subject that the students will choose for the PODCAST, and the creation of the content. Basically, the final dissertation will be a MAKING OF of the podcast. The students will have to explain the creative process and research that they have undetaken. At the same time, the students will experience the production and distribution process. So at the end of the Master Storytelling course the student swill be in possession of a product that they have conceived themselves, so as a matter of fact they have become a STORYTELLER!