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MA Screenwriting

University of Roehampton

MA Screenwriting will help you to develop personal voice in your writing, create distinctive and high-quality work, and to take that work from concept to industry-ready screenplay. Our unique approach combines technical practice with academic theory. The programme is flexible in its format and divided into three blocks; voice, writing and pitching, allowing you to focus on the areas that interest you the most. Our aim is to bring the most out of the individual talent of each writer.

You’ll be encouraged to develop your own writer’s voice – that deep-seated, often hidden message that urges you not just to write, but to write about the things that move you. Writing from an emotional, often psychological space offers freedom to the writer and greater engagement from an audience.

You’ll learn how to develop this voice and learn how the screenwriter is an ethnographer, paying close attention to descriptions of peoples and cultures, considering their customs, habits and mutual differences. You will also learn how to make your screenwriting stand out, using non-traditional, decolonised, less Western-focused forms, applicable from the gallery space to the theatre.

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Modules

  • The Inner Writer: Developing Voice
  • Underground Screenwriting
  • Final Project
  • The Life of a Screenwriter
  • The Pitch: Development and Presentation
  • New Trends in Translation and the Media
  • Cultural Adaptation in the Creative Industries
  • Forms of Screenwriting
  • Requirements

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    Upcoming Intakes

    • September 2024

    Mode of Study

    • Full Time