Course overview
This course introduces students to key theoretical, formal, and practical aspects of screenwriting for film and television. This practice-led course will develop students storytelling skills and knowledge and introduce them to a range of screenwriting skills and techniques through the production and analysis of short-form screenplays.
- Screenwriting- Ideation
- Constructing A Cinematic Narrative
Course learning outcomes
- Interpret, craft, and reflect critically on a broad range of screenwriting practices informed by expectations specific to different genres and platforms for distribution
- Conceptualise short screenwriting projects, devise plans for their research and execution, and fulfil these to deadlines
- Analyse creative, critical, and theoretical texts related to different screenwriting forms, informed by the global and historical contexts of their production
- Write and revise polished creative and critical works and project pitches that demonstrate significant levels of clarity, insight, narrative innovation, sophistication, and understanding of industry expectations
- Evaluate their own and others’ writing, both in seminar-based workshops and through written feedback