Scriptwriting

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  After successfully completing this subject, you will be able to:

  1. Assess and critically reflect on a range of scriptwriting platforms, forms, and genres for stage and screen, and also investigate theoretical approaches to scriptwriting.
  2. Demonstrate high level creative and practical skills in the production of their scripts, specifically in relation to the writerly elements of plot, character, dialogue, and structure, and apply complex critical and creative theories related to the practice of scriptwriting to their own work and the work of others.
  3. Generate a section of script from plan to final draft and create both industry standard supporting documentation and complex reflexive theorisations about their practice and project, and the practice and projects of others.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Swinburne University of Technology

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• SWI-WRI-GDI-2024 - Graduate Diploma of Writing
• SWI-WRI-MAS-2024 - Master of Writing

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• SWI-PWR70003 (Not currently available)

• SWI-PWR80002 (Not currently available)

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.