University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: 18 months full time
Course city: Melbourne
The Master of Screenwriting enhances your skills to write audience-engaged stories for a visual medium. And it places you to work as a professional screenwriter.
Take part in ‘Storytelling Workshops’ which analyse the universal essentials of storytelling. You also attend lectures, classes and screenings dedicated to the craft of screenwriting and undertake intensive modules focusing on feature film and television writing.
Your major project is a script that you’ll develop with the assistance of script tutorials, feedback from your lecturer and peers, and a unique script development hothouse. Complete a first draft feature screenplay, or a TV Bible plus episode(s) of a script.
Script tutorials plus lecturer and peer feedback is maintained throughout.
Learn to serialise and write long form television. And gain an understanding of essential development documents such as the TV series ‘Bible’. You’ll chose and research a topic of interest for your creative work and present your work to the class.
Write short prose or script format exercises, then share with the class. Examine how an audience’s engagement is impacted by a writer’s creative choices in areas such as point of view, narrative structure, authentic detail and content. Much attention is also paid to word craft. You’ll practice the skills of precise, economical and evocative writing.
Gain the fundamentals of feature film writing, including: traditional screen narrative structure, character development and writing for a visual medium. Learn how to write short documents, such as synopsise and treatments, and learn professional script formatting.
Through working with actors directors and tutors this short intensive workshop (with follow up sessions) enables you to make significant progress in the development of their first draft script.
Complete a second draft long form script; (most likely a feature film script) plus accompanying short documents, or television script(s) of equivalent length plus a ‘Bible’.
Learn how to generate income through writing. The focus of this subject is the business behind the screenwriting industry in both national and international arenas. This subject is delivered by industry professionals including representatives from funding bodies, professional writers, distribution companies, new media creatives, directors, and producers.
