Assessment is to be done INDIVIDUALLY. Further details of assessment will be provided in the module booklet.

Script: A Complete Original Short Fiction Script for Film or Television. Length: between 5 -15 pages.

[Learning Outcomes 1-4]

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

Key Information Set Data:
100% coursework

"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.
The Blackboard virtual learning envirnoment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

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.

Key Information Set Data:
12% Scheduled Learning & Teaching Activities
88% Guided Independent Learning

This module will facilitate the development (begun in Level Four 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 5 -15 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 screenwriter's crucial contribution to the evolution of a film of a television production.