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