Script Development Hothouse

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

90 Hours

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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Through working with actors and professional writers, this short intensive workshop enables students to make significant progress in the development of their first draft script. Run intensively over 3-4 days, students learn how to work with actors to workshop a scene from their script. They will also meet one-on-one with professional writers for individual script feedback discussion. Students will be required to be on site during daytimes to write intensively during the hothouse.

This subject will enable students to:
• make accelerated progress in drafting their script;
• gain understanding of ways that working with actors can assist in developing a screenplay;
• have the opportunity to work with industry professionals;
• develop skills in hearing and assimilating critical feedback.

Script development report (2000 words) 80%
Participation 20%

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completing this subject students will gain:
• greater clarity of ‘vision’ and communication;
• heightened writing skills;
• heightened skills of critical analysis, both in giving an receiving criticism;
• logical follow through of thought processes.