Scriptwriting

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how to write a script
• the process of development and revision involved in creating scripts
• how scripts are developed into performance for different media
• how to achieve originality, linguistic versatility, and form in the handling of dialogue, action, visual effect and overall structural control in your script writing

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• create the key structures needed for a script
• revise and edit your work effectively
• distinguish your aims as a scriptwriter
• explore ways of realising your script in performance

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• revise and edit creative writing to a professional standard
• present ideas effectively in a script
• manage deadlines and make effective use of your time
• write fluently in a range of styles
• translate text into performance

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• make literary judgements of scripts in an informed way
• handle complex demands of script composition in an analytic manner
• interact effectively with audiences via the performance of a script
• independently evaluate and apply compositional methods
• demonstrate originality through your writing

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.