Writing for Screen & Stage - MA

Postgraduate

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

* Please note that we are not able to sponsor students on this programme for a Tier 4 visa. * Join the UK’s first MA in writing professionally for three markets – film, TV and theatre. This programme has been designed with the writer in mind: you attend five four-day intensive workshops over the period of 21 months, and spend the rest of your time writing when you like, where you like, with constant script guidance by professional working writers throughout. The four-day workshops run from Thursday to Sunday, minimising your commitment if you work full-time. Become a member of a small and supportive group of ongoing active writers Watch your work being performed by actors Enjoy free London theatre visits Analyse and discuss nightly film screenings Produce high-standard scripts honed and ready for the professional market Direct performances of your scripts in our own Marylebone Theatre Indulge yourself in two years of pure writing as you develop a second career in film, TV or theatre Please note that we are not able to sponsor students on this programme for a Tier 4 visa. Why should I choose this programme? Have you ever dreamt of writing the next major cinema release or a gripping new drama series for the BBC, Channel 4 or Netflix? Can you imagine seeing your own play on stage in one of London’s 60+ theatres? Or you create a work that starts small but grabs someone’s attention, and grows to become the next commercial screen or theatre attraction? Perhaps your ambition is to adapt your favourite novel or short story for the screen or stage, and see it performed? All these are possible. Many classic and famous stage and screen works were dreamt up and written by people with no prior experience of writing scripts, and even no ambition to do so, and many works started on a small stage or screen, and got spotted, picked up and became international hits. This MA gives...

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Location

Start date

London
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Inner Circle, Regent's Park, NW1 4NS

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course


Study methods This programme is taught via a mixture of five short, intensive group periods on campus, combined with periods of off-campus distance learning.  Study is geared to the part-time student who prefers to study at their own pace. On-campus periods feature traditional lectures, seminars, workshops, individual one-to-one tutorials, workshops and performance of students’ work. You will write your scripts at distance, but under the continuing guidance of your personal tutor. In addition the programme contains an optional London-based screen industry or theatre placement, according to your preference.</p>

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2020

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Subjects

  • Works
  • Theatre
  • Writing
  • Play

Course programme

Length

Two years, part time

Additional information

The degree is in three stages, each seven months long.

It is taught by five group writing workshops on campus combined with off-campus distance tuition and guidance throughout the two years.

You write your scripts at distance but under the continuing guidance of your personal tutors.  

One common theme is how much the students enjoy the sense of community from spending the Residentials together in talks, workshops, seminars and discussions with other writers, but they develop their writing in their own time and at their own pace.

You may if you wish pursue an optional London-based screen industry or theatre placement, according to your preference.

Timetable

All Writing Workshops take place from Thursday to Sunday

Modules

Stage 1

  • Short Scripts
  • Adapted Scripts
  • Production Case Study

Stage 2

  • Observational Research Screenplay
  • Thematic Research Play

Stage 3

  • Analysis of Scripts
  • Feature Film Screenplay OR
  • Full-Length Stageplay

See module descriptions

Additional information

Important information:

With COVID-19 likely to generate worldwide quarantine restrictions and travel disruption for some time, and noting our duty to prevent our students from being impacted by a potential second wave, we've made the decision to deliver the Autumn 2020 Term online and prepare to return to campus in January 2021.

Writing for Screen & Stage - MA

Price on request