MA Scriptwriting

Postgraduate

In Bournemouth

£ 7,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bournemouth

  • Start date

    Different dates available

With a uniquely collaborative emphasis, this course offers opportunities for some of the scripts you develop over the course to be produced, through close collaboration with students from MA Producing for Film and TV, MA Directing for Film and TV and MA Radio Production. This equips you with the skills and attitudes required for successful script development processes in the industry. The course is busy, intensive and involves much teamwork alongside individual writing practice.
Throughout the course, you will develop your ideas from concept to industry standard final draft, with a development process that includes research, pitching, presentations, script reading and networking events, workshop groups, tutorials, script editing, and rewriting for production.
You will be encouraged to nurture and reflect on your creative process and originality of voice, and to explore the contexts – critical, creative and industrial that inform scriptwriting today.
The course is taught by scriptwriting professionals and theorists, alongside an exciting programme of industry guest speakers. The course is suitable for students who have previously developed their own creative writing projects within humanities or media production courses or with relevant professional experience.
Successful participation in MA Scriptwriting will enable you to emerge from the course as a writer with a distinctive authorial voice, an industry standard portfolio of scripts, experience of writing in formats and genres, and a robust attitude to collaboration and development.

Facilities

Location

Start date

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

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Subjects

  • Voice
  • Teaching
  • Radio
  • Project
  • Industry
  • Writing
  • Media
  • Directing
  • Production

Course programme

Course details On this course you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators, technicians and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry. Core units Scriptwriting Across Platforms & Genres: Develop knowledge and skills in scriptwriting with an emphasis on theoretical and practical approaches to creating dramatic narratives, along with your creative voice and vision as an originating author and collaborator in the script development process. You'll develop works for short film, web drama, games and radio drama, both as standalone narratives and in context to transmedia storytelling principles. You'll also experiment with generic conventions, and participate as writers on collaborative projects with MA Directing for Film & Television and MA Producing students. Creative Story Development: The scriptwriting development process, in terms of the writer’s role and the skills required for supporting and taking part in creative collaboration. You'll choose a feature film or television/web series/serials for the writing elements of this unit, which are standard industry development documents. These documents form the basis of the Master's Production Project. Narrative Constructions: Establishing a social, cultural and intellectual context for scriptwriting issues, combined with other practical and professional actions, this unit offers a strong critical foundation for effective script realisation. Teaching will help you collectively engage with narrative theory in a critical and analytical forum. Professional Practice: An introduction to key skills and knowledge you'll need for employment in the media industries. Option units (choose one)* Master's Production Project: This unit allows you to show the scriptwriting skills, knowledge and professional competence you've gained on this course by producing a major scriptwriting project that is original and emerges from a development process involving workshop groups and tutorials. You'll be supported to develop career plans as a writer beyond this course. Master's Research Project: You can produce a practice-based research artefact supported by a written analysis, or an individually or collaboratively written paper. The latter consists of a written investigation into an aspect of practice, supported by media artefacts. Both of these will be the basis of a presentation of research findings at a final exhibition. *Please note that option units require minimum numbers in order to run and may only be available on a semester by semester basis. They may also change from year to year. Programme specification Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used. Download the programme specification for MA Scriptwriting. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready.

MA Scriptwriting

£ 7,250 + VAT