This report documents the creative process that resulted in the feature screenplay "Magic Mountain," including the first inspiration for a dramatic thriller, initial attempts to devise character and plot, writing and rewriting script pages, and then the radical change of genre and artistic intention toward surrealist comedy, culminating with the final sequence of rewriting during the thesis semester. / text

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The following thesis is adapted from screenplay format. The document from which it derives serves as a shooting script for a film/video called A World Without You . The shooting script contains explicit scene description, camera set-ups that include angle and lens choices, dialog, and transitions - all the relevant instruction needed for anyone to reproduce the film with explicit similarity to its original. The thesis reflects a series of short videos I completed as research. In their finished state, the series of videos coalesce to a single film/video with a sixty-two-minute running time. That conglomeration emerged as a “shadow” or “inversion” of a twenty-minute, singlechannel video loop called Intermission For Deleted Acts, which served as centerpiece to my thesis exhibition. The script navigates themes of environmental catastrophe, companionship, survival, surveillance, and art practice. The following thesis attempts to keep the screenplay formatting intact to communicate both its functionality and aesthetic quality.

This report details the writing and revision process that went into my thesis feature screenplay, The Death of Us, a romantic comedy about a young man who fakes his mother’s death to try to keep his girlfriend from dumping him. I trace my steps from the idea’s conception to the completion of my thesis draft of the screenplay, using the outlines and beat-sheets I created at various stages along the way as examples. I explain the circumstances and inspirations behind The Death of Us, and finally, I attempt to reconcile the giant gap between my original intentions for this script and the final product. / text

“Surviving ‘Maleficium’: the Perils of Writing Fantasy Horror” examines the creation and development of Lydia M. Harter’s feature length script and the personal impact of the process on the writer. / text

This research focused on the off-line cursive script recognition application. The problem is very large and difficult and there is much room for improvement in every aspect of the problem. Many different aspects of this problem were explored in pursuit of solutions to create a more practical and usable off-line cursive script recognizer than is currently available.

This report describes the evolution of the television pilot for the half-hour comedy series "Standby." It documents the idea’s initial conception, through its various outline and draft stages, and finally to its successful completion for thesis consideration. In addition, the report looks ahead to the future of the project, as well as traces the writer’s growth both before and during his time in the MFA Screenwriting program. / text

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Becoming Number Six is an original dramatic work: Stephanie Dylar is disturbed when two shadowy figures claiming to be intelligence agents appear on her doorstep. The agents, Lovelace and Babbage, represent a government branch known as The Division, and inform her that her son Jeremy may be involved in illegal computer activity. When Jeremy subsequently goes missing, Stephanie turns to her friend Julia for help, and is confronted with the realities of constant surveillance as Julia brings the hacking group Incognito into the mix.