BA Hons Screenwriting &
Producing
A full-time undergraduate degree in screenwriting and
producing
for film and television.
The script is the cornerstone of television and film
production - from the point of conception
through to the realization of the final work, the script forms the
spine, structure and design of the final creative project, and all
production ideas, decisions and executions emanate from
it.
Start dates - September 2010,
January 2011
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This three-year
undergraduate degree programme is designed to develop the next
generation of writers and producers for the screen, i.e.,
individuals who will work on both sides of the film and television
industry.
In doing this it goes further and encompasses more than a pure
creative writing or screenwriting degree, since it also trains and
educates new young writers in the commercial and production side of
the screen industry, and develops key skills which are essential
for the career success of a writer or producer.
The Course Covers:
- Storytelling & narrative structure
- Characterisation & character function
- Use of arena and an understanding of the screen as a visual
medium
- Dramatic construction
- Audience empathy
- Genre and the psychology within stories
- The structure and mechanics of the screen industry
- How to judge ideas and convert them into screen
productions
- Marketing
- Legal issues
- Budgeting and financial practices
- The ability to handle writers, directors, actors and
agents
In addition the programme includes essential business
skills and a detailed understanding of the production process and
the roles of project developers, production executives, script
editors, agents and distributors.
Industry Placement & Practical Film Project
The course will also contain an industry placement and a unit in
which students will write, direct and produce their own short
film.
Learning Methods
Delivery will be by lecture, seminar, workshop and tutorial, and
students will have the opportunity to work both individually and in
groups, thus replicating industry practice, to specialise in
preferred script and production areas, and to write and
hypothetically produce their own film in Year Three.
Who Should Take This Course?
The course is aimed at students wishing to work in the
television or film industry as writer, producer, or
both.
It is designed to attract those who want to increase their
employability and their understanding of the industry by operating
simultaneously on both sides of what has traditionally been falsely
seen as a boundary between different skills.
Employment Opportunities from this course
The US and the UK, and therefore the English language, occupy
positions 1 and 2 in the league tables of international film and
television exports, with London a major centre of screen
production. And with the creative industries in 2008 growing
twice as fast as the rest of the economy and predicted to expand
annually by 10% (as is the global creative sector also),
opportunities for employment in the screen industry are at an
all-time high.
This degree trains the new generation of writer/producers,
giving them transferable and wide-ranging skills which will
markedly increase their opportunities of employment and success
whether they are operating in one or both of the two roles.