DIPLOMA COURSES
Script DevelopmentCurriculum
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
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.




