DIPLOMA COURSES
Script Development
Towards the end of the first year, students are paired with a new screenwriter for the Final Development Project. Over the last six months of the programme, student and writer will work to together through two drafts and three development meetings. This project is closely supervised and intended to be a useful and practical experience for both the developer and the writer.
Curriculum
The programme covers:- Story and Genre Theory
- Script analysis and script report writing
- Assessing and developing screenwriting craft skills
- Negotiating development meetings
- Detailed story development practice
- Strategies for script placement in the Industry
- Assessing treatments and other short documents
- Adaptations - including legal and copyright issues
- The Industrial environment - development in its context
- The public sector, agents, lawyers, independent producers
- Europe and the role of international film festivals
- Distribution and Marketing
Towards the end of the first year, students are paired with a new screenwriter for the Final Development Project. Over the last six months of the programme, student and writer will work to together through two drafts and three development meetings. This project is closely supervised and intended to be a useful and practical experience for both the developer and the writer.




