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