Course Details
This 2-year online MA is founded in cutting edge research into screenwriting technique specifically designed to create empowered, innovative, convention-challenging screenwriters with the will and the expertise to break boundaries and create screen stories of international quality.
You will be guided to develop a mastery of screenwriting fundamentals, and pushed to look beyond those fundamentals to more radical techniques, treating your screenwriting as an artform in its own right.
Student-centered active learning will encourage you to take charge and develop your confidence and leadership skills, preparing you for entry into screen industries. You will be pushed to develop critical thinking and diligent research skills, and encouraged to grow your artistic practice through experimentation.
The programme is committed to creating pathways not just to sustainable professional practice but to innovative and original practice in the screenplay, empowering students to become leading voices in screen industries.
The lead academic for this course is Dr Chris Neilan, an award-winning writer and filmmaker with a PhD in creative writing focused on narrative structure in the screenplay. He is a leading expert on story structure. His groundbreaking book on unconventional story structures, Beyond the Monoplot, is available from Bloomsbury.
The modules you will complete over the Master of Screenwriting course are:
Writing & Screen Project Development
20 credits
Script Workshop 1
20 credits
Unconventional Approaches
20 credits
Major Project Research
20 credits
The Business of Screen Project Development
20 credits
Script Workshop 2
20 credits
From Script to Screen
20 credits
Major Project
40 credits
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