Scriptwriting for Film and Television BA (Hons)

Course overview

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What will I study?

• As a student on this course, you will develop a strong writing voice and develop high-level craft skills in order to produce scripts that have the potential to reach this industry
• Industry connections are a feature of this course, and you will benefit from a compulsory professional industry attachment and gain both detailed experience and valuable contacts for the future
• The course provides a thorough study of various aspects of film, television and the media: history; theoretical underpinning; current status; future
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Who should do this course?

• This course is designed to suit both school / college leavers and mature students who wish to explore their creative voice and prepare themselves for new career opportunities in the writing industry
• This scriptwriting course is creative, dynamic and very inclusive, and encourages its students to explore both themselves and the world that they live in through telling stories for the screen
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What can I do next?

• Scriptwriting graduates emerge with not only the ability to write high quality film and television scripts - short films, feature films, television drama series, television drama serials, television single dramas, sketches and sitcoms, but with a thorough awareness of the commercial and contextual issues surrounding the industry that wish to enter
• View the career opportunities for our BA (Hons) Scriptwriting for Film and Television graduates
• Many of our graduates go on to study a Postgraduate course at BU

Tell me more

This scriptwriting degree course is a highly focused and unique training ground in creating what is the very foundation of film and television fiction - the script. Scripts for film and television feed the industry and, ultimately, dictate its creative direction.

Students actively submit their work to competitions, and recent successes include winners and shortlistings with the BBC, Channel 4, the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award, and The London Screenwriters' Festival.

Students on the course also work collaboratively with students on other courses within the Framework (Interactive Media, Radio, Television Production), giving them opportunities to see their work made (short films, webisodes, radio podcasts etc.) and form creative partnerships which may be used to forge career opportunities.

Watch BA (Hons) Scriptwriting for Film and Television award winning Virgin Media Shorts graduate Luke Snellin's short film in full here .