FIL-30015 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This ISP enables students to undertake a significant creative project in Film writing or Creative Writing as a final-year project. It brings together the theoretical ideas explored across the Film Studies courses with the practical work undertaken across Creative Writing and Film modules. You will produce as a film outcome an extended screenplay treatment, in the form of either a plan for a feature-length screenplay, adaptation, or complete short film.

This ISP enables students to undertake a significant creative work in Film Studies and Creative writing as a final-year project. It brings together the theoretical ideas explored across the Film Studies course with the practical work undertaken across Creative Writing and Film modules. Students will have the opportunity to develop either an extended piece of feature-length screenplay work, a fully-realised short film script, or the treatment for an adaptation of an existing text. Alongside this, students will prepare a commentary essay outlining the theoretical contexts supporting their creative work and reflecting on their own practice.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Execute an extended piece of creative writing in feature-film screenwriting, short-film writing, or adaptation: 1
Undertake detailed research into the theoretical frameworks informing creative writing or adaptation, and produce a commentary on their own creative practice: 1
Identify historical and contemporary trends in film screenwriting and situate their own work in relation to these: 1
Identify key aspects of best and innovative practice in the composition of creative cinematic work: 1

Study hours

Workshops 4x1 hour = 4 hours
Supervision 12x1 = 12 hours
Research 220 hours
Writing 64 hours

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment