FLM4201-Scriptwriting: Creativity and Technique-2023/24

This course is for single honors film studies students. Students will produce a short film script based on a a story developed through the weekly exercises. The course will establish the ability to write a short original film script with coherent dialogue, exposition and structure. It will develop knowledge of scriptwriting; format, structure, character, dialogue, exposition and how to assess a script using appropriate terminology such as back story, suspense and set ups and pay offs. You will be required to write a story that you will then format into a script. This treatment will form part of your first assessment along with a verbal pitch. The second assessment will be a script. This course is available to associates. This year the whole module will be delivered online.