Advanced Script

This subject is not offered in 2011.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.

The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit website: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

In this subject each student will write and craft either a theatre playscript, a radio play, or film/TV script. The student will decide on the particular medium early in the semester during the workshopping process. Scripts will be developed to professional workshopping standard. This is a workshop subject and will focus on teaching students to understand their own creative processes, generate and craft their material, and develop skills of writing performative language. These skills will be developed through writing exercises, discussion, study of material in the subject reader and particularly through feedback to students presenting their work.

Students completing this subject will:

• appreciate the creative and critical thinking, the research and the writing and crafting skills, involved in producing a script to professional production (or professional workshopping) standard;
• demonstrate an understanding of how to re-conceptualise and rewrite from feedback and workshopping;
• strengthen and deepen cooperation and collaboration skills through workshopping;
• gain a better understanding of the history and culture of theatre/performance locally, nationally and internationally in order to contextualise their own work; and
• gain a realistic understanding of professional production possibilities, funding bodies and funding options.

A subject reader will be available.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Students who successfully complete this subject will:

• develop public speaking skills through extensive presentation of work-in-progress during workshops and in public presentation;
• develop and expand understanding of, and access to, creative processes and abilities in a focused and confident way;
• demonstrate an ability to use research and theoretical material practically, conceptually and creatively; and
• gain an understanding of the effects of gender, indigeneiety and ethnicity and the ways in which they relate to social, ethical and cultural contexts and thus gain practical insights into the politics of representation.