Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- translate text into performance
- write fluently in a range of styles
- present ideas effectively in a script
- manage deadlines and make effective use of your time
- revise and edit creative writing to a professional standard
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- revise and edit your work effectively
- distinguish your aims as a scriptwriter
- explore ways of realising your script in performance
- create the key structures needed for a script
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
- demonstrate originality through your writing
- interact effectively with audiences via the performance of a script
- handle complex demands of script composition in an analytic manner
- independently evaluate and apply compositional methods
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how to write a script
- how to achieve originality, linguistic versatility, and form in the handling of dialogue, action, visual effect and overall structural control in your script writing
- how scripts are developed into performance for different media
- the process of development and revision involved in creating scripts
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Teaching | 20 |
Independent Study | 130 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Dirty Pretty Things by Steven Knight. screenplay
Banana Boys or Holloway Jones by Evan Placey. plays for young people
Mother of Him by Evan Placey. script
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman. screenplay
Desperate Housewives by Marc Cherry. television script
Misfits by Howard Overman. television script
The Hour by Abi Morgan. television script
Textbooks
Laura Wade. Breathing Corpses.
Jez Butterworth. Jerusalem.
(2001). The Methuen Book of Modern Drama. London: Methuen.
Alternative Scriptwriting.
David Harrower. Blackbird.
Marius von Mayenburg. The Ugly One.
Joan MacLeod. The Shape of a Girl.
Mark Ravenhill. Shopping and F**king.
Sarah Kane. Blasted.
debbie tucker green. Random.
Martin McDonagh. The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
Edward Albee. The Goat (or Who is Sylvia.
David Mamet. Glengarry Glen Ross.
Caryl Churchill. Top Girls.
Story.
Jane Bodie. A Single Act.
Tony Kushner. Angels in America (parts 1 & 2).
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 40% |
Critical commentary | 25% |
Written assignment | 35% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
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.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assessed written tasks | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal