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Scriptwriting

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

1 Year

Start

September 2023

Delivery

Campus Taught

Want to become a professional scriptwriter? Our MA Scriptwriting will develop your skills in writing for TV, Film, Theatre, Audio Drama, and Video Games.

Our Scriptwriting master's degree prepares you for a career as a professional scriptwriter. You'll increase your employment opportunities as our course mirrors industry practices.

Learn from experienced scriptwriters who will provide detailed, regular feedback on your scripts. This will enhance your knowledge of story structure, scene development, characterisation, and dialogue. You'll be able to transform your stories into industry-standard scripts.

You will have access to CELTX scriptwriting software to help format your scripts to a professional standard. And, you'll graduate with a portfolio of work across a wide variety of genres. This includes a feature length "calling card" script, that will showcase your writing talent to agents and producers.

Why study with us

You'll attend film festivals, theatre productions, and video games expos. Gain access to networking events and masterclasses from renowned industry professionals.
Experience real world industry practices. This includes pitching, the role of the Script Editor, Script Reader, Storyliner, and how to operate in a professional Writers Room.
You'll enjoy our industry links with the BBC, ITV, MediaCityUK and other media organisations across the UK.

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What you'll do

You’ll have the chance to compete for the Matt Greenhalgh Award for Best Script. The winning script gets a professional script report from Raindance and free entry to their annual script competition.
You’ll attend guest lectures and workshops involving high profile industry professionals. This includes scriptwriters, script editors, producers, and agents.
Graduate with a portfolio of work across a wide variety of genres. You'll get a feature length "calling card" script, that can showcase your writing talent to agents and producers.

Module overview

Course delivery

Following the pandemic, we have found that some courses benefit from a blended learning and teaching approach. Therefore, the majority of your teaching will be face-to-face on campus aside from a small amount of online teaching where we have learnt it works best.

90%Face-to-face

10%Online

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Future careers

By developing your scriptwriting skills to a professional level, you’ll be ready to pursue an exciting career within the media industry across a variety of roles, including scriptwriter, script editor, story liner, script reader, producer, director and researcher. Our industry links will give you direct access to industry professionals and job opportunities.

Fees and funding

2022/23

Full-time£7800 per year

Part-time£867 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14500 per year

2023/24

Full-time£8,400 per year

Part-time£933 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£15,500 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of scholarships, bursaries and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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The skills modules on this course are all freshly written and completely up-to-date. The main themes of the curriculum are employability, practice-based learning, entrepreneurial skills, and developing industry contacts.

Key modules include:

Radio

This module offers you the opportunity to leave the course with a broadcast radio credit.

Writing for stage

As well as writing, you’ll be encouraged to produce their own work.

Writing for children

A unique module, the first of its kind which specialises in scriptwriting for children.

The course will also offer core modules in Writing for Film and Writing for Television.

Throughout the course you’ll attend lectures, seminars and group workshops as well as getting involved in guest lectures, fieldwork and industry visits.

Assessment for each module will typically involve submitting two scripts (varying in length), a presentation and/or a reflective essay. Towards the end of the course you’ll undertake a dissertation – a major piece of in-depth work which will showcase your research and scriptwriting skills.

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This course is based in the School of Arts and Media located in the Faculty of Culture and Creative Industries

For information on possible changes to course information, see our essential and important course information

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