Writing for the Media

Master

In Poole

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Poole

  • Duration

    1 Year

Develop students individual creative voice as a writer and the range of their authorial skills, enabling them to write for a variety of media including film, television, radio and new media. Develop your own individual authorial voice. Enhance your creativity in preparation for a rapidly changing media industry. Develop scriptwriting skills across a range of media platforms. Develop critical thinking and intellectual skills to reflect, learn and grow as a successful media practitioner. Suitable for writers, graduates, members of the media industry and other suitable professions, or for those seeking writing careers in the media.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Poole (Dorset)
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Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB

Start date

On request

About this course

Recent graduates with an undergraduate degree (typically 2:1 or above). Applications are also welcome from experienced professionals working within the media industry.
Preferred subjects: All subjects considered
If English is not your first language: IELTS 6.5 (Academic) or above.

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Course programme

MA Writing for the Media

Delivery method:
Full-time
Course Reference: MAWM

Course Overview

Graduate from the UK’s only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and a recognised Skillset Screen and Media Academy.

The first of its kind in the UK. On this course you don’t simply write. Your work will get made. You will see your scripts go into production while you are on the course.

Students will engage with cross-media projects in film, television, radio and new media. An innovative range of assignments will enable students to embark upon scripts for a variety of media. Scripts written by the writing students will be made by fellow students on production degrees in an umbrella suite of postgraduate courses of which Writing for the Media will be a part. Writers will work with directors, producers, editors, new media and radio producers to create new cutting edge courses.

The Media School at Bournemouth University wishes to build on its very successful screenwriting courses with the introduction of this innovative postgraduate degree.

Writing students engage with film, television, radio and new media. An innovative range of assignments enable students to embark upon scripts for a variety of forms and genres, including Graphic Fiction, Interactive Narratives, Online Drama, Digital Writing, Twitter Fiction, animation and short film dramas for mobile phones.

For their MA Major Assignments, students can write a full-length screenplay, radio play, drama series, graphic novel. Alternatively students can compile a portfolio of work consisting of a variety of projects – a short film script, a radio drama, webisodes for online drama, Twitter Fiction, graphic fiction. The course aims to be as flexible as possible and encourages diversity.

Why BU?

  • Home to England's only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice
  • The only Skillset Screen and Media Academy in England outside London
  • Regular high profile guest lecturers such as Patrick Uden, Executive Producer of The Apprentice
  • Work-based, flexible and available by distance learning
  • Study in "Britain's coolest city" Harpers and Queen and "one of the liveliest places in Britain" The Times

Writing for the Media

Price on request