106-027 Writing Scripts

Usually 25 points of first year English, including completion of the first year creative writing prerequisites of 106-186 Creative Writing: Autofictions (or its equivalent) and/or 760-101 Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice. This subject is available at second year level to Bachelor of Creative Arts students who have completed all first year BCA Creative Writing requirements.

This subject provides students with the chance to develop their own scriptwriting; through the study of course materials, through class discussions, workshop sessions and submission of draft material. Students will develop and draft a playscript, and should develop an understanding of the writing workshop process as well as an understanding of processes and choices involved in their own creative writing.

• acquire particular generic skills and as a result of attendance at scheduled workshops, participation in the activities and discussion groups and the completion of an original script should be able to:

• access their own creativity generally and how to apply/focus it towards a particular objective (writing an original theatre/film script) and to better understand their own creative process/processes;

• use theoretical/research material to develop and challenge themselves intellectually and creatively and to develop and heighten self-awareness;

• demonstrate interpersonal skills of communication, collaboration and co-operation through attention to active listening, giving and receiving feedback etc. and how to reconceptualise and rewrite from feedback;

• be open to new ideas and possibilities and develop greater facility with language and writing;

Class participation 10% and a script including a short synopsis of a live performance and introduction equivalent to a 3500 word essay 75% and a 500 word review 15% (both due at the end of semester). Students are required to attend a minimum of 80% of workshops in order to qualify to have their written work assessed.

A subject reader will be available from the University Bookshop.