Television screenwriting

City Lit

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This is a step by step guide to writing for popular television and offers guidelines for students to apply their own ideas to scripts.

The Tutor
Jim Hill is a graduate of the NFTVS. He is both a freelance writer and director and has worked on such popular shows as Minder, Casualty, Lovejoy and Byker Grove. He is the co-creator of BOON and worked for Grundy Europe as a story team leader on soap opera. He is currently a tutor on the MA in Television Scriptwriting at De Montfort University Leicester and at City University.

City Lit reserves the right to change course tutors from those advertised in this outline. In line with our refund policy we are unable to grant a refund on the grounds of a change of tutor.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Show an understanding of the basic themes of dramatic story lining
- Further develop your own project outside of the course.

Pen and paper.

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Subjects

  • Writing
  • University
  • Screenwriting

Course programme

- The structure of a television episode
- The development of characters
- The plotting and planning of a storyline
- Writing a synopsis and treatment
- Dialogue writing.

In-class exercises; discussion; PowerPoint presentations; original material hand-outs and samples including storylines and episode extracts; DVD and video clips. Students should watch television drama to apply what they have learnt and discussed in the class. All writing courses at City Lit will involve an element of workshop. This means that students will produce work which will be discussed in an open and constructive environment with the tutor and other students. The college operates a policy of constructive criticism, and all feedback on another student’s work by the tutor and other students should be delivered in that spirit. For classes longer than one day regular reading and writing exercises will be set for completion at home to set deadlines.

Additional information

You might consider Developing screenwriting or Advanced screenwriting. Please refer to the online prospectus entries for these courses for further information. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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