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Communication & Media Studies
Creative Arts & Design
Creative Writing - Scriptwriting
London
United Kingdom
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About the course
The MA/MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media offers a vocational training in writing drama across a range of different media contexts.
Both the MA and MFA courses provide the opportunity for you to develop the core competencies and skills of the dramatist, to explore your ‘voice’, to develop your confidence in your own writing and to understand the different media contexts within which you might work as a professional scriptwriter.
- Train to write drama for different media including theatre, film, television and radio
- Study the history of dramatic writing and explore its future
- Work with actors and be taught by industry professionals
In the past, students have also had the opportunity to study optional units on writing within other contexts, for example, writing
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Entry Requirements
You should normally have an undergraduate degree in the broad field of literary and/or performance and drama studies; or a first degree and sufficient experience of either writing or drama practice; or have appropriate professional experience; or can otherwise demonstrate your potential to undertake this form of postgraduate study successfully. An offer will normally only be made after interview.
An MFA top-up year for those with an existing MA in writing for dramatic media is available. During this year writers will produce two ‘calling card’ scripts and a professional development portfolio.
