Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool Screen School
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
5031CRWRI-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To develop students storytelling/narrative structural skills and to demonstrate the use of scene cards, step outlines, treatments in the development of a screenplay.
2. To develop students understanding of dialogue function and particular requirements of the screenplay form and allow them to further explore its dramatic potential.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate an understanding of telling a self-contained story in screenplay form.
2.
Use story structuring techniques effectively.
3.
Write an original 15-minute screenplay in the appropriate form.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Students will examine the use of step-outlines, treatments, scene cards and character biographies as aids to structuring a screenplay. Students with further study, screenplay formatting, writing to the ‘cut’, dialogue function and develop their understanding of the dramatic potential of the form. Students will undertake a series of related exercises. The syllabus will be delivered in short lectures and workshop/small group sessions.
Module Overview:
This module will develop your skills in structuring and writing a treatment and a screenplay. It will encourage individual development of filmic storytelling skills in a critical, supportive environment in preparation for the longer stories you will develop and write in Level 6 Screenwriting modules.
This module will develop your skills in structuring and writing a treatment and a screenplay. It will encourage individual development of filmic storytelling skills in a critical, supportive environment in preparation for the longer stories you will develop and write in Level 6 Screenwriting modules.
Additional Information:This module will develop students’ skills in structuring and writing a treatment and a screenplay and encourage individual development of filmic storytelling skills in a critical, supportive environment in preparation for the longer stories they will develop and write in level 6 Screenwriting modules