Screenwriting
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
UCAS Tariff
About this course
Our BA (Hons) Screenwriting course allows you to find your own voice, hone your creativity, and gain the skills and disciplines required for a future career in the screenwriting industry. This course examines the art, craft and industry of Screenwriting, with a particular emphasis on contemporary practice and commercial requirements. Guided by a team of professional and experienced Screenwriters, with credits in Feature Films, TV Drama and award winning short films, the course aims to develop writers with an awareness of industry, form and creative approaches used in generating vibrant and original screenplays. The course explores structure, genre, character and tone through project work and analysis as students shape their style and processes. Covering a range of content and platforms the course is 75% practical.
Throughout the course, you will learn to produce a portfolio of work that aligns your skills with your commercial and professional objectives to enhance your career prospects. Our team of professional and experienced screenwriters are here to help you create your best work and prepare you to proceed into the screenwriting industry at a professional level. We regularly welcome a wide range of industry insiders to hold talks and deliver guest lectures to provide you with a unique insight into the professional world.
Finally, as a part of the Department of Creative Industries you will benefit from our industry partnerships with companies including HyperX, DXRacer, Twitch, ARRI, and AVID, and be able to access to industry standard software such as Nuke, Maya and Houdini.
Modules
Year One
In your first year, you will learn the foundations of screenwriting and film studies as you begin to examine the craft of smaller screenplays such as those for short films and audio dramas.
Year Two
Your second year allows you to begin to branch out and explore more wider areas of screenwriting, such as writing for games and TV, the psychology of screenwriting, and narrative design.
Year Three
In your third year, you will work towards you final major screenwriting project that acts a culmination of your learning throughout your degree. You will also look to expand your knowledge of genre, form, and writing for a mass audience as you develop your employability by building your online portfolio of your creative work.
Assessment methods
Your screenwriting modules will be assessed in a number of innovative and professional-relevant ways, including:
-Script Drafting and redrafting
-Presentations
-Reflective essays
-Essays on relevant practices or film studies.
-Work shopping in groups.
Tuition fees
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Bognor Regis Campus, University of Chichester
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The jobs market for this subject - which includes creative writing and scriptwriting courses - is not currently one of the strongest, so unemployment rates are currently looking quite high overall, with salaries on the lower side. But nevertheless, most graduates get jobs quickly. Graduates often go into careers as authors and writers and are also found in other roles where the ability to write well is prized, such as journalism, translation, teaching and advertising and in web content. Be aware that freelancing and self-employment is common is common in the arts, as are what is termed 'portfolio careers', having several part-time jobs or commissions at once - although graduates from this subject were a little more likely than many other creative arts graduates to be in conventional full time permanent contracts, so that might be worth bearing in mind.
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