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Creative Writing for Screen

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 November 2017
End Date: Sunday, 24 December 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 24 November 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 8 December 2017

Description

Students who complete this course will emerge with a full understanding of the difference between a theatre-script and a film-script, and that they will have acquired all the technical skills and information required to set out a film-script of a standard for submission to a professional agent, and a clear understanding of the specific perspectives and values particular to the conception of film as opposed to other genres.

This course provides students with an introduction to screenwriting craft and practice. It aims to combine the development of students’ creative writing with the practical skills and dramaturgical techniques of writing for the screen.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students will learn to:
  • Format a screenplay to a professional standard;
  • Make use of narrative techniques and conventions specific to screenwriting, and write visually for the screen;
  • Analyse films and screenplays, and provide constructive critique to others;
  • Develop their own creative practice and 'voice' as a writer through craft-based exercises and assessment.

Prerequisites

Any 75 points.

Restrictions

ENGL234, CINE210

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

Martha Hardy-Ward

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Dialogue scene 25%
Pitch 25%
Webseries episode 40%
Attendance and participation 10%

Textbooks / Resources

Weekly readings will be available through LEARN.

(Image: "Cinema" by Victor Ollervides,  licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.)

Notes

The pre-requisites for ENGL238 are:

Either 15 points of ENGL at 100-level with a B pass, or 30 points of ENGL at 100-level, or any 45 points from the Arts Schedule.

**Please disregard the information listed in the 'Pre-requisite' field (above), which specifies the pre-requisites for this course as being 'Any 75 points'.**

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $732.00

International fee $2,975.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

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