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EL50TM: SCREENWRITING: THE NARRATIVE WITHIN THE FRAME (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19


Course Overview

This course will investigate different forms of scriptwriting by writers from a range of historical periods. We will be considering narrative form and content as shaped by subject selection and storytelling devices and structures. The filmic themes will be considered from aesthetic, historical and theoretical perspectives. Through a series of seminars, workshops and screenings, students will develop approaches to visualising film narratives, culminating in a scriptwriting folio of work.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Alan R Marcus

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

From script to screen, this course will focus on the creative fusion of writing with images and writing with words to devise a film narrative. We will investigate different forms of scriptwriting by writers from a range of historical periods. We will be considering narrative form and content as shaped by subject selection and storytelling devices and structures. The filmic themes will be considered from aesthetic, historical and theoretical perspectives. Through a series of seminars, workshops and screenings, students will develop approaches to visualising film narratives, culminating in a scriptwriting folio of work.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Original Screenplay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 80
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Folio of twelve pages of screenplay together with a reflective essay of 1,500 words to be submitted in Week 11.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Original Screenplay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 20
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Feedback

A four-page screenplay outline and treatment for an individual feedback session in Week 7.

Learning Outcomes
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Formative Assessment

Draft screenplay

Assessment Type Formative Weighting
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In addition, students will submit the following non-assessed work: a 1st draft of their screenplay and a series of six weekly exercises.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Resit Assessments

Open book essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualRememberUnderstanding of historical and contemporary conceptual approaches to scriptwriting. Able to critically distinguish between different modes of narrative representation.
ProceduralApplyDevelop an understanding of the screenplay through seminar exercises and producing practice-based work. Write to deadlines and to commissions.

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