![]() ![]() Students were able to learn the basics, ask questions about the film industry and practice using script writing software as well as writing scenes before developing their own pilot in the course. My hope is that this class opens doors for students who think that television writing is the career path they might want to take,” Svoboda said. When I was a student, I didn’t even know I could be a TV writer. “I really wanted to teach a class that I would have been very excited about as an undergrad here at UNL. With that in mind, he developed the three-credit class to be a crash-course in television writing. Svoboda proposed the course Short-form TV Series Writing and Producing because he knew there was a niche of students interested in learning television writing. Svoboda has also made three short films, which have made their way through the film festival circuit. The following year Svoboda was on the writing staff for the EPIX dramedy Graves. His first major gig was on the show “The Walking Dead” where he was a writer’s assistant.Ī few years later, he got his first TV script on the Netflix dramedy, Club de Cuervos. ![]() Svoboda has been writing for film and television for more than 16 years, ever since he moved to Los Angeles, a few years after graduating from UNL in 1998. They had a screening of the episodes during their last Wednesday night course of the semester with College of Journalism and Mass Communications adjunct professor Michael Svoboda. Students in the BRDC 491 special topics course Short-form TV Series Writing and Producing created television pilot episodes for their final project. A scene from "Dead Air" by Grace Fitzgibbon ![]()
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