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:
- the process of development and revision involved in creating scripts
- 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
- how to write a script
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- present ideas effectively in a script
- translate text into performance
- write fluently in a range of styles
- revise and edit creative writing to a professional standard
- 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
- handle complex demands of script composition in an analytic manner
- interact effectively with audiences via the performance of a script
- demonstrate originality through your writing
- independently evaluate and apply compositional methods
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- create the key structures needed for a script
- distinguish your aims as a scriptwriter
- revise and edit your work effectively
- explore ways of realising your script in performance
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
The Hour by Abi Morgan. television script
Misfits by Howard Overman. television script
Banana Boys or Holloway Jones by Evan Placey. plays for young people
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman. screenplay
Mother of Him by Evan Placey. script
Desperate Housewives by Marc Cherry. television script
Dirty Pretty Things by Steven Knight. screenplay
Textbooks
(2001). The Methuen Book of Modern Drama. London: Methuen.
Laura Wade. Breathing Corpses.
Caryl Churchill. Top Girls.
Joan MacLeod. The Shape of a Girl.
Marius von Mayenburg. The Ugly One.
Sarah Kane. Blasted.
Alternative Scriptwriting.
Story.
Jane Bodie. A Single Act.
Tony Kushner. Angels in America (parts 1 & 2).
David Mamet. Glengarry Glen Ross.
David Harrower. Blackbird.
Martin McDonagh. The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
Edward Albee. The Goat (or Who is Sylvia.
Mark Ravenhill. Shopping and F**king.
Jez Butterworth. Jerusalem.
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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Written assignment | 40% |
Written assignment | 35% |
Critical commentary | 25% |
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