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    MA One year full-time or two years part time.

Masters Degree Description

Take your writing to the highest level, and develop clear strategies for professional success. With a combination of expert guidance and peer-group workshopping, you’ll develop your unique voice as you learn to meet the demands of a highly competitive industry. The course will help you to become a more adept scriptwriter, able to work across theatre, radio, film, and television. Along with a comprehensive training in key writing skills, you’ll develop your critical thinking, creative dexterity, and coherent strategies for professional progress.

With access to campus resources such as professional recording equipment and television studios, you’ll collaborate with acting, directing and film-making students to make films, record audio drama, and develop plays for theatre. Creative collaboration forms the heart of the Scriptwriting course, as you develop an understanding of live presentation, of idea as word, and of the direct relationship, in any given medium, between writer and audience.

Entry Requirements

We’re looking for individuals with either a good first degree or a thorough professional training in acting, theatre, television or film.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

MA Scriptwriting provides a foundation in writing for all the major media. Our graduates can find (and have found) work as script editors and story editors within mainstream broadcasting. Graduates can find employment in numerous capacities within the industry, working as: researchers, location managers, publicity managers, literary agents and, of course, as scriptwriters.

Many graduates find teams with whom to produce independent work in film and theatre, taking their productions to regional theatres and film festivals.

Module Details

  • Story Workshop
  • Writing for Performance
  • Production Lab
  • Professional Practice
  • Final Script (Double Module)

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