Television Scriptwriting Workshop (Master Degree)

De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' This is a part-time course divided into four 12 week semesters over two years. It is taught one day a week (usually on a Thursday), in a seminar group of around 15 students. In the first year you develop and script your own original television series and write ’shadow’ episodes of existing television drama. Workshops are led by the Course Tutor and guest writers who encourage you to produce concept documents, synopses, outlines, treatments, scene-by-scenes and second draft scripts. In the second year you are divided into groups to undertake team writing, having chosen a subject from the many TV genres - sitcom, soap, childrens’ drama. There are day workshops on commercial series analysis, screenplay structure, genre television, pitching and submission strategies.

All students do the following modules: Learning Scriptwriting Techniques, Writing for Existing TV Series and Serials, Team-Writing an Original TV Series/Serial, Writing Situation Comedy and Comedy Drama, Writing for Other Television Genres and Markets and a Final Script Project.

Staff
Jim Hill (Course Tutor) is a freelance writer/producer/director. He is best known as the Co-Creator of the television series Boon. He has worked on such popular shows as Minder, The Bill, Lovejoy, Casualty, Byker Grove and Pie in the Sky as well as directing a six part series about Subbuteo tabletop football for BBC Scotland. He has been employed as a producer/director for LWT on reality crime shows Coppers and Crime Monthly and has worked extensively in Europe for Fremantle Worldwide Drama as a story consultant on daily serial drama.

Jim wrote the Directors Handbook for Lego’s Stephen Spielberg Movie Maker Set. He has been working for McCann Erickson and their client The Carbon Trust directing a series of case studies about the business community and the effect of climate change. He has recently been adviser to Interaktí¶ Fiction (Hungary), which produces the prime time soap opera Joban Rosszban for the commercial channel TV2 and is now developing drama projects with Fire Mountain Films.

Christopher Walker (Course Leader) is former head of the script unit of Central TV where he produced all seven series of the successful situation comedy The Upper Hand. He was creative executive for CTCP (Columbia TriStar Central Productions) and subsequently developed comedy projects for Carlton Television and the BBC. He is also tutor for the undergraduate module on scriptwriting within the department.

For your final script you will be assigned a mentor drawn from the industry. Recent mentors include Jimmy McGovern (The Street, Cracker), Tony Marchant (Mark of Cain), Jed Mercurio (Bodies), Kay Mellor (Band of Gold) and Barbara Machin (Waking The Dead).

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Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:+44 (0)116 255 1551

School Address:

De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
UK


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