Screenwriting. Birkbeck, University of London

This programme offers the opportunity to develop practical screenwriting skills and techniques and to apply them to writing briefs, together with the ability to evaluate the effectiveness of communicating ideas in script form.

One distinctive feature is a fast-track core module, which will enable graduates in other fields to gain detailed knowledge of screenwriting conventions, an understanding of common formats, and the ability to analyse a brief and evaluate one's own writing within a commercial context. Armed with the core skills of the fast-track course, a subsequent module in the first year will develop your skills in writing a draft script in either film or television formats.