AustLit

Advanced Screenwriting focuses on the creation of an original script for screen. This subject builds upon skills learnt in the second year Creative Writing subject Writing for Screen. Students will enhance, through practical workshops, their screenwriting techniques in three areas: Film, TV and New Media forms. Students will develop a creative project comprising a concept and script excerpts from either: a feature length film, a TV pilot, or a new media project: a website, blog or digital artwork. Advanced Screenwriting draws upon a wide range of examples and contemporary applications of screenwriting, including fictional and documentary forms, along with interdisciplinary web-based innovations. As a result students should have, on completion of the subject, an understanding of how screenwriting history, common techniques and new advances in the form relate to current practice.