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1 Introducing BostonGlobe.com digital subscriptions, just 99 for your first 4 weeks.!"#$%!"##$%$&'&()*+$',"--".',/")0!"#$$%&'%()$*+#"$%,"-'.$%/#"-'/$ By Linda Matchan GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 20, 2011 ERIK JACOBS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE Emerson student Tim Zientek pitched a story idea to Writing the Film Musical classmates recently. The writing class started much like any other. In the first half of the screenwriting exercise, Emerson College students discussed plot development, effective characters, and establishing conflict. Then they added music. They moved to another classroom, where they joined students from Berklee College of Music. One played a flawless riff on the piano. Another sang and tap danced. Several intensely studied musical scores.

2 The students are part of an unusual hybrid class jointly offered by the colleges. The course, Writing the Film Musical, pairs Emerson s screenwriting students with Berklee s music students to work on pieces of a musical screenplay that will ultimately be performed before an audience. CONTINUE READING BELOW! The idea originated with Emerson screenwriting professor Diane Lake, who thought that exposure to musicals would help her students think about writing in a different, more creative way.!"#$%"& Emerson, Berklee students collaborate on musical I am full of crazy ideas, said Lake, whose 2002 film Frida - her first big writing assignment - won two Academy Awards. Undeterred by the fact that her own formal music education ended at age 5 when her parents sold the family piano, she reached out to Berklee professor Michael Wartofsky, whom she d been told had a musical theater background. Together they drafted a proposal, which won a $3,000 grant for the most engaging and innovative course from the ProArts Consortium, an association of six Boston-area visual and performing arts colleges that aims to facilitate cross-college YOON S. BYUN/GLOBE STAFF Emerson professor Diane Lake and Berklee professor Michael Wartofsky won a $3,000 grant for their unusual hybrid class. Highlights of the students work will be performed for the public Dec. 13 at Emerson s Paramount Theatre. collaboration. The students are working in pairs to write and compose music for an act from a musical. Highlights will be performed for the public on Dec. 13 at Emerson s Paramount Theatre. It s not uncommon for students enrolled at one college to take courses at another nearby. But it s rare for two colleges to team up for the same course, especially schools

3 as different as Emerson and Berklee. They may be close to each other geographically miles, to be precise - but in terms of culture they are miles apart. Emerson pumps out communications majors; Berklee s mission is to create revolutionary musicians. Emerson s writing students fret over plot and dialogue. Berklee s think in terms of tempo and melodic themes. Your toolbox contains your personal vocabulary and 12 notes, said Rafael Sanchez, a Berklee student taking the class. The rest is pure creativity. There aren t many obvious points of intersection between the two worlds. But Lake and Wartofsky thought they could find common ground in musicals, thanks to a resurgence of interest in the genre inspired partly by Fox s hit show Glee and by a spate of musical films. Every high school on the planet is doing their version of High School Musical, Lake said. Wartofsky believes musical films with strong social themes like Moulin Rouge, Chicago, and Rent shifted public opinion about musicals, which had lost their luster in the 1970s and 80s. They showed that movie musicals could be very cool and hip, said Wartofsky, whose own credits include writing the music for Cupcake and Car Talk: The Musical!!! The course started this fall, with 12 students enrolled from each college. They meet once a week on Tuesday nights, alternating schools. Initially there wasn t much interaction between the two groups; the students sat clumped together by school. Some of the Emerson students had trouble relating to the music conversations. They were talking about things like vamps, recalled Ethan Young, an Emerson student. In one of the first classes, the topic was an analysis of Chicago. Lake discussed screenplay structure. Wartofsky talked about song placement and song moments, and the way songs can tell a story.

4 Then [Wartofsky] goes to the piano and we start singing lyrics, said the perpetually effusive Lake. And here are my students - the playwrights, the film writers, the writers of short stories. And they are singing! My kids don t sing! It s a new way to tell a story through song. Things got tougher the next week, as the students split into screenwriting and songwriting teams. Working in pairs, Emerson students were charged with writing the first act of an original screenplay. ( The title should kill, Lake told them.) Berklee students were assigned to write songs to help tell that story. To simulate the competitive nature of the entertainment business, screenwriters would try to sell their idea to the musicians in a compelling, five-minute pitch in the hope that their script would be picked. We re trying to create a little bit of an industry vibe here, Wartofsky said. The pitches came a week later, and they were nothing if not inventive. Lorena Mora and Young pitched The Swamp Thing, about a supernatural creature in a Mississippi swamp. Michael Giese and David Ladr offered up Starving Artists, about a down-onhis-luck circus performer who takes a gig eating a metal sculpture. Neil McNeil and Tim Zientek pitched One Killer Musical about a serial killer in a musical theater. Some of the writers apparently hadn t quite grasped the concept of song placement. One team forgot to leave room for any music. Another accounted for an implausible plot twist by promising it would be preceded by a song moment. But the musicians had no problems seeing potential. I m seeing old American military music, said Sanchez, 21, who taught himself to play several instruments by ear and has so many ideas for melodies he said he has to memorize them or sing them into his phone. He and his partner Don Ngatia were charmed by One Killer Musical, seeing strong potential for uptempo blues music and 1930s-inspired jazz. The Berklee students got only a week to create lyrics and music for a song for two different screenplays. Sanchez, who played piano, and Ngatia, who sang, performed a tango called Let s Dance. They thought it would be a haunting way to establish the killer protagonist. ( There re so many ways to die - I mean dance, tonight/mambo, tap

5 or tango, what s your delight. /So what if when we dip you may slip, never to rise? ) Some of the Emerson students were so impressed with the musical renderings of their stories they were close to tears. We got a tad emotional during the song pitches, said Mora, who is majoring in film and television writing. A few weeks into the course, it was hard to tell they were from different schools. Said Zientek: We re weirdly similar THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY

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