Unscripted Development

1 Year Part-time

Main Campus Blended

Application deadline 26 Sep 2024

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Unscripted Development

COURSE OVERVIEW

Get the professional training you need to kickstart your career in a world-leading UK Industry.

Despite uncertain economic times, the UK continues to lead the world in creating and producing unscripted series.  From hit formats that have been sold around the globe such as Traitors or The 1% Club, to surprising and absorbing factual shows such as Clarkson’s Farm and Beckham – the global appetite for innovative and engaging content is huge, and it all starts with development.

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The Unscripted Development Diploma is a year-long part-time blended learning diploma, which seeks to capture the dynamism and creativity of unscripted television - with a particular focus on factual entertainment and formats - and provide you with the skills you need to make your own professional contribution to it.

Learning from industry professionals, including channel commissioners and top producers in production and development, this course plots the evolution of unscripted programmes from the initial idea to transmission. 

The course embraces all kinds of unscripted from premium docs and returnable factual series to formats which can travel the globe and factual entertainment with many of the major factual commissioning channels represented across the year (Prime Video, Sky Netflix, BBC, ITV, C4, C5 etc.).

The course culminates in a pitch that sees students present their ideas for a new series to a commissioner from Amazon Studios.

On leaving the course, you could join many former NFTS students who are now successfully working in the industry in senior positions. 
 

Funding Available

To ensure that the course is accessible to as many people as possible, the £5,500 course fee is 75% underwritten by
Prime Video.

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Graduate Success

Course graduates go on to work for a wide range of leading companies in diverse roles, with some co-founding their own businesses.

Graduates include...

Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

Development Producer Stefan Mattison

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Graduate Success

Course graduates go on to work for a wide range of leading companies in diverse roles, with some co-founding their own businesses.

Graduates include...

Katherine Fish

Development Producer at HiddenLight Productions

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Graduate Success

Course graduates go on to work for a wide range of leading companies in diverse roles, with some co-founding their own businesses.

Graduates include...

Jack Browne

Senior Development Producer at MultiStory Media

Jack was named as one of Broadcast's Hot Shots 2022.

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