57101 Writing for the Camera

This subject offers postgraduate screenwriting students an opportunity to investigate new and diverse storytelling strategies for both the big and the small screen. It investigates contemporary experiments in narrative structure, new storytelling possibilities opened up by digital technology, adaptation and visual storytelling. Students develop both general and specific skills in screenwriting, develop their screenwriting skills intensively and further their knowledge of cultural and aesthetic debates, in particular on the place of screenwriting within contemporary cultural formations. Students may write short- or long-form drama or a dramatised documentary, and may continue developing an existing screenplay or develop a new idea.