Fortscale includes a scripting environment so that responses to events can be automated.
This season included a script that was a pastiche of recent campus rape stories, opening with a hot drunk girl being assaulted by frat-boy predators.
His credits for movies and television were noteworthy (they included a script for "Star Trek" and the pilots for "Marcus Welby, M.D".
That work included a script for the TV show "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys," where Mr. Kurtzman worked as an assistant after graduating from college.
Driven by off-the-wall characters pursuing eccentric passions, this "harebrained idea of a film" (according to Mr. Godshall, in his manifesto) erupted from a desire to cast off all constraints — including a script — and go with the flow.
But Hollywood was particularly drawn to this one after Mr. Bekmambetov joined his fellow producers Tim Burton and Jim Lemley in shopping a film proposal that included a script by Mr. Grahame-Smith, who has written for television.
At the end of the course, you'll have everything you need to pitch your show to producers, including a script, one-page pitch, two-page proposal, a series bible, and the confidence to start contacting agents.
There are pleasures in an evening that doesn't so much appear to have been directed as assembled, but they are largely accidental ones, and include a script and delivery that on occasion give rise to unintentional laughter.
