Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- present ideas effectively in a script
- revise and edit creative writing to a professional standard
- write fluently in a range of styles
- translate text into performance
- 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:
- 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
- make literary judgements of scripts in an informed way
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 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
- how to write a script
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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Independent Study | 130 |
Teaching | 20 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman. screenplay
Desperate Housewives by Marc Cherry. television script
Dirty Pretty Things by Steven Knight. screenplay
Misfits by Howard Overman. television script
The Hour by Abi Morgan. television script
Banana Boys or Holloway Jones by Evan Placey. plays for young people
Mother of Him by Evan Placey. script
Textbooks
debbie tucker green. Random.
Sarah Kane. Blasted.
Alternative Scriptwriting.
Jez Butterworth. Jerusalem.
Martin McDonagh. The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
Caryl Churchill. Top Girls.
Story.
Edward Albee. The Goat (or Who is Sylvia.
David Harrower. Blackbird.
Marius von Mayenburg. The Ugly One.
(2001). The Methuen Book of Modern Drama. London: Methuen.
Joan MacLeod. The Shape of a Girl.
Tony Kushner. Angels in America (parts 1 & 2).
Mark Ravenhill. Shopping and F**king.
Jane Bodie. A Single Act.
David Mamet. Glengarry Glen Ross.
Laura Wade. Breathing Corpses.
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