Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- 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
- how to write a script
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- translate text into performance
- revise and edit creative writing to a professional standard
- write fluently in a range of styles
- present ideas effectively in a script
- manage deadlines and make effective use of your time
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
- independently evaluate and apply compositional methods
- interact effectively with audiences via the performance of a script
- demonstrate originality through your writing
- handle complex demands of script composition in an analytic manner
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- explore ways of realising your script in performance
- distinguish your aims as a scriptwriter
- create the key structures needed for a script
- revise and edit your work effectively
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
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman. screenplay
Misfits by Howard Overman. television script
The Hour by Abi Morgan. television script
Dirty Pretty Things by Steven Knight. screenplay
Desperate Housewives by Marc Cherry. television script
Banana Boys or Holloway Jones by Evan Placey. plays for young people
Mother of Him by Evan Placey. script
Textbooks
Martin McDonagh. The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
Joan MacLeod. The Shape of a Girl.
Story.
Laura Wade. Breathing Corpses.
Alternative Scriptwriting.
Tony Kushner. Angels in America (parts 1 & 2).
Jez Butterworth. Jerusalem.
Caryl Churchill. Top Girls.
David Mamet. Glengarry Glen Ross.
(2001). The Methuen Book of Modern Drama. London: Methuen.
Sarah Kane. Blasted.
Marius von Mayenburg. The Ugly One.
David Harrower. Blackbird.
Jane Bodie. A Single Act.
Mark Ravenhill. Shopping and F**king.
Edward Albee. The Goat (or Who is Sylvia.
debbie tucker green. Random.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical commentary | 25% |
Written assignment | 40% |
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