Learn how to function within a professional environment across different screen industries, and create work that stands out from the crowd.
Develop your portfolio across different platforms or focus on the mediums and genres that interest you through live briefs, collaborative projects and independent research.
You will:
- Learn the fundamentals of storytelling and how these can be applied to your chosen script medium
- Gain the professional skills needed to compete in the script writing industries, including how to write treatments, develop characters and setting, present your work in the correct format, and pitch your ideas
- Collaborate and network with other script professionals around the world
- Gain the research skills, critical and theoretical approaches needed to underpin your practice
- Gain an understanding of current trends and developments in the screen industries.
With Falmouth Flexible, you access your course content, interactions with other students and tutors, and learning resources, through Canvas, an easy-to-use online platform. You can access the course wherever you are in the world, and you can stop, pause and rewind lectures whenever you want.
Learning activities
Engaging learning activities will help you apply theory to practice. They could include:
- Concise online presentations to introduce key concepts
- Small group and class discussions and crits to facilitate interaction and dialogue
- Online critiques to test assumptions, ideas and to receive feedback from peers and tutors
- Individual and group tutorials throughout the course
- Independent study
- Self-evaluation and peer feedback.
Assessments
All assessments are taken and submitted online.
Assessment methods for the masters degree in Writing for Script & Screen can typically include:
- Coursework assessment with no formal examination Portfolios, projects, online presentations and pitches.
Enrollment Cycles
- January 2024
- May 2024
- September 2024