Saturday, July 31, 2010

Television Writing: Different from Conventional Writing Style and Pattern

Television Writing: Different from Conventional Writing Style and Pattern


Article summary: Television writing is a creative field and has lots of options and good career opportunities for aspiring candidates.


Entertainment industry is not very old in our country. However the pace at which it is growing calls for increase in demand for trained writers in television writing. With growing entertainment industry, students have more options to make their career in this sector. To sharpen one’s skills in television writing, one can join professional course in television writing.
Television industry in our country is booming; we can feel its presence and relevance around us. Every day, we can see some new business house coming up with some new channel, production house, site, reality shows, talent hunt shows etc. To hone their writing skills for television industry, aspiring candidates can join a course in television writing being offered by Whistling Woods International (WWI), Mumbai (www.whistlingwoods.net).
The duration of this professional course is one year. The minimum eligibility to get admission in this course is that applicant must have passed HSC or SSC and should be 21 years of age. The in-house faculty delivers relevant and exhaustive knowledge to all the students. The students also get training from eminent guest lecturers.

Students are always encouraged to create new stories keeping in mind the parameters like characters, teleplays and dialogues. The programme also touches the topics like importance of satellite channel, rating system and the journey of Indian television. The course modules cover the different areas such as soap operas, thrillers, paranormal series and reality to give them good hands on experience of writing for various type of storylines. "There has been no structured course for Television writing till date despite this being a difficult subject," says Vinod Ranganath, project head and main tutor, Television writing, WWI.

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