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Metfilm School

20-Week Part-Time Screenwriting

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Duration
20 weeks
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Overview

Overview

Part-Time Screenwriting is a dynamic, intensive course covering all areas of the screenwriting process, from developing an idea for screen to packaging your script and bringing your project into the marketplace. This course is suitable for beginners, no previous experience is required.

Why Take the Course?

Why Take the Course?

The Part-Time Screenwriting course gives students the opportunity to learn the art of screenwriting but require a part-time schedule.

The Part-Time Screenwriting is designed to improve the understanding, knowledge, and practice in the following core areas:

  • The fundamentals of storytelling
  • How to create sustained, interesting, and cinematic stories
  • The psychology of character
  • The principles of story structure and theme
  • Different narrative traditions and genres
  • Visual storytelling, dialogue, and subtext
  • The writer’s method
  • The Business of Film and TV
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What you will study

What you will study

The following list is an overview of the topics and themes covered in Part-Time Screenwriting. For more information, please download the course outline below.

Through film analyses students learn how to recognise and use the techniques and methods specific to film.

Students learn how a director can prepare for a shoot using storyboards, script mark-ups and technical floor plans.

Students look at the art of visual storytelling through the development of an engaging and effective screenplay.

Students learn the different tasks and responsibilities of a screenwriter.

Students learn how to approach an agent and producer and how to present your project with an impact.

Entry Requirements

Entry Requirements

Minimum Age: 18 at the start of the course.

This course is open enrolment and there are no entry requirements.

In order to get the most out of the course, you should be able to both speak and write in English to a reasonable standard.

Please be aware that we have a limited number of places available for each course intake and operate on a first-come, first-served basis.

  • Duration: 12 sessions over 20 weeks, Part-Time, Alternate Saturdays.
  • Location: MetFilm School Campus at Ealing Studios.

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