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Self Paced Study

Learn to Write Scripts Professionally

Scripts are essential across a wide range of mediums including films, instructional design, advertising, radio, TV and more.  If you enjoy writing across different media this is a great course to start as a professional script writer.   This course will teach you how to write for different media, how to include sound effects, how do develop scripts for a range of different audiences and much more.

  • 100 hours
  • Self pace flexible study
  • Tutor support

Course Aims

  • Explain what script writing is and its many applications.
  • Describe and compare techniques for plotting the story.
  • Explain how to write the outline of a script and then write the script itself.
  • Explain how to write good characters in your script.
  • Explain the use of dialogue and sound effects in script writing
  • Explain how to write for the internet, TV and film.
  • Explain how to write for radio.
  • Develop scripts for use in educational programs
  • Develop scripts for an audience of children
  • Develop an understanding of the business of script writing.

 

There are 11 lessons in this course:

1. Scope and Nature of Script Writing

    • Introduction – what are scripts?
    • Where are scripts used?
    • Writing Scripts – what is the story you want to tell?
    • One page, one minute rule.
    • Visual, behaviour and aural storytelling.
    • Show and don’t tell.
    • Handling time.
    • Formatting script.
    • Abbreviations.

2. Plotting the Screenplay

    • Types of stories.
    • What are the specifications?
    • Duration of the performance.
    • Developing the story-line.
    • The Story Pyramid.
    • Creating a story board.
    • Techniques for plotting a story.
    • Fiction and creative non-fiction.
    • Non-fiction – Education, Corporate, Presentation Writing.
    • Screen play formatting guide.

3. Outline and Writing the Script

    • Writing the outline.
    • Cliff hangers in a script.
    • Formatting outlines.
    • How to write the script.

4. Characterisation

    • Writing good characters.
    • Building characters.
    • Character planning.

5. Use of Dialogue and Sound Effects

    • Dialogue in script writing.
    • Writing dialogue.
    • Dialogue tags.
    • Tips on writing dialogue.
    • Examples of dialogue.

6. Writing for Internet, TV and Film

    • Time frame.
    • Fiction or non-fiction.
    • Pace.
    • Sound effects.
    • Visuals.
    • Writing for TV.
    • Writing for film/screen-writing.
    • Writing for websites.

7. Writing for Radio

    • Components.
    • Voice.
    • Music.
    • Sound Effects.
    • Other points to consider when writing for radio.

8. Writing for Training/Instructional Videos

    • One person script.
    • Two person script.
    • Multiple persons script.
    • Visuals in training presentations.

9. Writing for Children

    • Fiction and non-fiction hybrids.
    • Children’s cognitive development.
    • Implications for the writer.
    • Socialisation.
    • Gender, roles and stereotyping.

10. Writing for Advertising

    • Writing for advertising.
    • What is the purpose of advertising?
    • Writing and analysing adverts.
    • Summary skills.
    • Tips for summarising.
    • Writing for infomercials.

11. The Business of Script Writing

    • Commercial Opportunities.
    • Start your own production business.
    • Ethical and legal considerations.
    • The law.

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First and foremost our courses are 100% online courses BUT they are still very practical!  You will learn many practical skills, do some research, field trips and much more.  

All learning is best done by doing, so our online courses are designed to give you the foundation knowledge you need and to get you out there and doing whatever it is that you love.  

This sets our students up for success. 

    • 100% Online
    • Practical 
    • Certificate issued on completion
    • 1-on-1 tutor support
    • Flexible payment options
    • Self paced study

Getting where you want to go with your studies and/or career, involves much more than just reading or watching a video.  Knowing how to learn, how to research and find out new information, how to judge if the source of information is any good and how to find out what is happening in your industry and creating a network are vitally important!  Our courses will help you do all that.

We have mini self assessment tests so that you can be the judge of how well you understand the material and then a set task where you will undertake some form of practical exercise.  But best of all is the one-on-one expert tutor feedback you get with each task you submit.  

Online study can by difficult but our tutors are there to help you every step of the way.  

 

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