Module Identifier TF20220  
Module Title WRITING FOR SCREEN AND TELEVISION  
Academic Year 2003/2004  
Co-ordinator Terence F Bailey  
Semester Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters)  
Pre-Requisite TF10210 , TF10320 , TF10410 , TF10510  
Co-Requisite TF32330  
Mutually Exclusive FT20220  
Course delivery Lecture   12 Hours 12 hours  
  Seminars / Tutorials   20 Hours Tutorials 1 hour  
  Other   Workshops 18 hours  
Further details For information on due dates for submission of assessed work, please refer to the departmental web pages at http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/duedates.shtml  

Learning outcomes

Typically, on completion of this module, a student will be able to:
demonstrate an ability to develop, produce and present, in a specific format, a 10 minute screenplay to a specified process and a specified schedule.

demonstrate an understanding of, and an ability to manipulate, a number of fundamental elements of dramatic narrative construction.

apply the knowledge and skills gained in these processes to a critical reflection on their own, other students' and other writers' methods and screenplays.

Brief description

In Semester 1 you will develop your idea for a short film screenplay through the writing of a 40 word premise, a 100 word Story Outline, a 500 word Treatment and a 1500 word Step Outline by December. In Semester 2, you will develop and revise your Step Outline into a 10 minutes screenplay and complete the development of your Critical Project Appraisal.

During the lectures and workshops over both semesters you will be discussing and practising a number of approaches to the following building blocks of dramatic screenwriting: subject, story, structure, plot, character, dialogue, narrative devices, presentation and format.

Content

Reading and Viewing

As well as working in detail with a number of short films from my own collection, we'll also be examining techniques used in the following generally available films among others:

The Usual Suspects
Jackie Brown
Citizen Kane
The 39 Steps
The Shining
Raining Stones
Cinema Paradiso
Rosemary's Baby
Hamlet (Brannagh)
Groundhog Day

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 5