FV3S25 - Advanced Theory: Screenwriting for Fiction 01 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2026 | Version 1
Associated Module Information
| Module Code: | FV3S25 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Module Title: | Advanced Theory: Screenwriting for Fiction | ||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Business and Creative Industries | ||
| Faculty Group: | Film and TV | ||
| Faculty Sub Group: | Film and TV | ||
| Module Leader: | Joseph Sudlow, Nigel Orrillard | ||
| Module Team: | Paul Conway, Ian Staples, Sian Summers, Catrin Clarke, Gwyneth Moore | ||
| First Intended Intake: | SEP 2020 | Final Year of Intake: | 2025 |
| Date Closed: | |||
| Credit Value: | 20 | Credit Level: | 6 |
| Language: | English | ||
| Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: | 0 | ||
| Equivalent Module: | |||
| HECOS codes: | 100058 - film studies | ||
| HECOS Code Weighting: | 100 | ||
Document Version Information
| Version | 1 |
|---|---|
| Valid From | 01 Sep 2020 |
| Valid To | 31 Aug 2026 |
Module Aims
• Equip students with the craft, communicative and social skills to express themselves creatively and pursue their career goals.
• Develop and substantially extend, students’ comprehension and ability to work creatively with television screenplay development practices.
• Provide an inspiring, supportive, highly stimulating intellectual and creative environment dedicated to the exploration of shifting personal identities, relationships and wider contemporary ideas.
• Enable transferable, graduate attributes essential to a broad range of careers related to collaborative, creative development skills in other fields of creative writing, research, journalism, marketing, politics and education.
Content Summary
Through a short series of lectures the contextual historical, theoretical and practical knowledge of film and television screenwriting and storytelling across various broadcast platforms is instilled.
Students work collaboratively in a Writers’ Room Workshop environment and ethos to produce individual screenplays, individual critical reflection on those screenplays and reports on other student’s work in progress, to delivery on professional screenwriting software.
Learning and Teaching Methods
| Activity Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Seminar | 6 |
| Tutorial | 2 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 6 |
| Independent Study | 92 |
| Directed Study | 92 |
| Formative Assessment - Scheduled | 1 |
| Formative Assessment - Independent | 1 |
| Total Hours Selected | 200 |
Learning Outcomes
| # | Learning Outcome |
|---|---|
| LO1 | Compose a dramatic work presented to a professional standard both individually and through collaborative contributions to the development of others’ work. |
| LO2 | Evaluate one’s own work and the work of others one’s own and others in a constructive, professional context with intellectual and critical rigour. |
Module Requisites
N/A
Assessment Criteria
| Assessment Category | Assessment Type | Description | Duration | Word Count | Weight (%) | Best of? | Pass Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asynchronous Assessment | Portfolio 1 | Screenplay portfolio that specifically includes: An articulation of the principal creative decision making related to the screenplay under set headings, with Harvard bibliography. | 0 | N/A | 50 | No | 40 |
| Asynchronous Assessment | Creative writing 1 | Screenplay | 0 | 1 | 50 | No | 40 |
Assessment Matrix
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| LO1 | LO2 | ||
| Portfolio 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Creative writing 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |