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MetFilm: Screenwriting

Institution MetFilm View institution profile
Department Met Film School Leeds View department profile
Web https://www.metfilmschool.ac.uk
Email info@metfilmschool.co.uk
Telephone 020 8280 9119
Study type Taught

Summary

The MA Screenwriting programme is designed to enable you to develop the skills and understanding needed to work as a writer in today’s screen industries. You will gain advanced insight into the work of a screenwriter – deep understanding of screen storytelling and professional scripts, working across a variety of screen platforms and industry contexts, writing short form and feature length scripts, the writer’s role as initiator and enabler, professional working practices and employment strategies.

Specific topics range from storytelling and formatting scripts to pitching ideas and projects, from working alone, in partnership or in writers’ rooms to selling ideas to producers and editing scripts in collaboration with other creatives.

  • Practical: Pitch your script to a panel of industry experts, see your script performed by actors, and receive script development support from leading UK film and television production companies.

  • Comprehensive: Learn about writing for different platforms, including film, television, web, radio, games and commercials.

  • Industry-facing: Learn from leading industry tutors and guest speakers with extensive professional experience as writers, directors, showrunners, and script developers in the screen industries.

  • Real-life Experience: Write for an external client, and receive real-life screenwriting experience to improve your communication, teamworking, and pitching skills.

  • Portfolio: Graduate with a portfolio of content, normally including short film script, treatments for genre feature films, a pilot screenplay, online video scripts, industry-standard script reports, synopses, outlines, project pitches, and a final project feature-length script.

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MetFilm School Leeds is based within Prime Studios, a state-of-the-art media production facility, which includes make-up and wardrobe studios, props storage, as well as cinema and event spaces. Prime Studios has already collected an extensive list of productions, including The Duke, Hope Gap, and The ABC Murders, and is located right next door to ITV Studios, where the flagship soap Emmerdale is filmed.

Students and graduates have access to our dedicated careers advice department, MetFilm Futures, who regularly host Masterclasses and seminars, run career surgeries and competitions, and provide festival support, talent pools and job opportunities whilst …

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