DIPLOMA COURSES
Script Development

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
  • Assessing treatments and other short documents
  • Adaptations - including legal and copyright issues
  • The Industrial environment - development in its context
  • Guest speakers from the public sector, agents, lawyers, independent producers
  • Europe and the role of international film festivals
  • Distribution and Marketing
The Final Project
At the beginning of the summer term, students are paired with a new screenwriter for a Final Development Project. Over six months, the student and writer will work together through two drafts and two development meetings. This project is closely supervised and intended to be a useful and practical experience for both the developer and the writer.