BA (Hons) Screenwriting and Media Production Part-time

Bachelor's degree

In Bolton

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bolton

  • Duration

    5 Years

The media and creative industries are flourishing and the North West is the key digital powerhouse outside of London. Traditional career routes in areas such as film and TV continue to seek new recruits, but exciting opportunities are also available with the broad range of organisations that now need moving images for their websites, social media platforms and promotional adverts. They want people who can create new and interesting content using their great story-telling skills and sound knowledge of the production process and workflow. This course aims to prepare you for a career in this exciting sector and offers transferable employability skills such as resilience, adaptability and team-working that are highly attractive to employers.

Creative, practical and industry-focused, this course gives you the chance to experience all aspects of the pre-production, filming and post production workflow in film, TV and multi-platform formats – before deciding which areas you want to specialise in. It’s ideal if you’re a writer who wants to take control of your creativity and make your own stories come alive, instead of waiting for someone else to do this.

Our lecturers and technical staff will support you as you develop a wide range of technical, writing and creative skills. We’ll also encourage you to develop critical thinking skills, enabling you to challenge, question and explore the world around you and feed this into your creative work.

Our experienced team take pride in getting to know our students as individuals, and you can become part of our welcoming and supportive production family. Offering you the chance to share in our immense wealth of award winning industry experience, this course allows you to explore the various gateways into the vibrant media industry in North West England.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bolton (Greater Manchester)
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Deane Road, BL3 5AB

Start date

On request

About this course

This programme can provide you with an in-depth knowledge of working in film, TV and multi-platform formats. It gives you the opportunity develop a wide range of writing, technical and creative skills and learn to challenge, question and explore what’s possible in moving image media.

A key part of the course is your chance to benefit from creative industries placements, and extra curricular opportunities to help build appealing CVs, showreels and writing portfolios in preparation for employment.

What Can I Do With This Qualification?
Screenwriting and Media Production graduates typically enter careers in the media, cultural and creative industries. Areas of work can include television and radio, film and video, digital media, journalism, writing and publishing, PR and media practice. Some of our graduates have set up their own companies or worked collaboratively with small production companies. Others have gone on to write and make films that have won accolades in film festivals around the world.

After graduation, you could choose to continue your studies by pursuing an MA or PhD in a variety of fields; for example, screenwriting, script editing, PR and communications, publishing, film production or journalism.

Alternative Career Options
Arts administration
Event organisation
Teaching
Local government
Advertising and marketing
Journalism
PR consultancy
Communications
Publishing

Any subjects are acceptable at Level 3.

You should also have five GCSEs at grade C or above or grade 4 to 9 (or equivalent) including English.

You may be required to attend for interview and provide a portfolio of appropriate work.

Eight dedicated video edit suites with sound processing capability.
Computer facilities for each student with dedicated media software.
Two fully-equipped Studio facilities with lighting rigs, screens and equipment.
Sound recording facilities.
Professional HD film production equipment and a supply of ancillary equipment for professional production.
Guides for each individual module provide information about the programme.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Media
  • Production
  • Skills and Training
  • Writing
  • Industry
  • Screenwriting
  • Staff
  • Part Time
  • Sound
  • Project
  • Employability
  • Team Training
  • Workflow

Course programme

Modules

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.
  • Screen Culture: Reading the Screen
  • Sound and Vision: Production Skills 1
  • From Story to Screen
  • Writing for Short Form Media
  • Collaborative Media Project 1
  • Digital Cultures
  • Collaborative Media Project 2
  • Employability and Entrepreneurship
  • Sound and Vision: Production Skills 2
  • Writing Fact and Fiction for the Screen
  • Exploring Storytelling and Narrative
  • Creative Producing and Director's Vision
  • Pre Production Research and Planning
  • Writing Portfolio
  • Professional Practice
  • Industry Experience
  • Major Project
Teaching, Learning And Assessment

Much of the work involved in this course is based around practical media projects. You’ll be expected to write scripts for production and create different types of content as well as write essays, presentations and pitches. Some online course activities are student-generated and controlled to resemble the practices you’re likely to encounter in the media industries.

We place emphasis on group work, activity-based assignments, workshops, demonstrations, projects and guided independent study. Some of the modules will be delivered in a more conventional way through classes, lectures and presentations. You’ll be taught by tutors who have extensive industry experience, and by specialist guest lecturers.

You’ll also be expected to devote a significant amount of time to independent study, and our online resources will assist you with this. Assignments will require time outside of lessons to complete. Work-based learning is a key element of the course, and the completion of industry briefs and professional quality work are designed to ensure you are ready for employment when you graduate.

There are no examinations. All assessment is through coursework. You can expect formative assessment to help you learn and develop your knowledge and skills and summative assessment on which you’ll be graded. Your summative assessment briefs will contain tasks such as making films, writing essays and reports, writing scripts and outlines, giving presentations and pitches, carrying out practical exercises and work-placements.

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.

BA (Hons) Screenwriting and Media Production Part-time

Price on request