Assessment is divided into TWO components, which are outlined below. Both assessments must be done INDIVIDUALLY. The assessments are linked: the Project Proposal conveys the creative idea for the Script. The module's emphasis is on the latter; the assessment weightings reflect this. Further details of both assessments will be provided in the module booklet.

(1) Project Proposal: A Treatment (aka "Story Outline"). Length: 200-300 words.
[Learning Outcome 1]

(2) Script: A Complete Original Short Fiction Script for Film or Television. Length: between 20 - 30 pages.
[Learning Outcomes 2-4]

The script must be "original" (i.e. NOT an adaption of previously published material - for example, a book or short story).

This module will facilitate the development (begun in Level One screenwriting -related modules) of your creative and intellectual faculties with regard to writing scripts for film and television. It will provide you with the skills, knowledge, and understanding to write a short original dramatic fiction script of approximately 20-30 pages' length for film or television. It will also provide you with the opportunity to gain further understanding of the processes of research, organising, and planning that script writing necessitates. Moreover, the module will give you an understanding of the creative and intellectual demands and disciplines that the writing - and, crucially, re-writing - of a script requires. Finally, the module will consolidate your understanding and appreciation of the script writer's crucial contribution to the evolution of a film of a television production.

"How to Write" Books
Field, Syd: Screenplay, London: Bantam Doubleday 1987
Hauge, Michael: Writing Screenplays that Sell, London: Hamish Hamilton 1989
McKee, Robert: Story, London: Harper Collins, 2004
Goldman, William: Adventures in the Screen Trade, London: Abacus 1986
Goldman, William: Which Lie Did I Tell?, London: Bloomsbury 2001

A classroom with adequate whiteboard, tables and chairs, and good quality VHS/DVD playback and television monitor.

Nine (9) classroom sessions, in which tutors lead students in undertaking various practical workshop writing exercises. There will also be a need for short and occasional tutor presentations regarding the imparting of essential guidelines regarding the writing of a script. You will also occasionally work with a designated "writing partner" to read and act as "script editor" to each other's work-in-progress. Individual tutorials will occur regularly towards the end of the module, wherein you will be offered feedback on your script.