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An initial series of seminars and workshops contextualising and analysing a variety of screen project development practices utilised in industry will lead to pitching sessions in which you will present, critically appraise, debate and defend your creative project ideas.

Critical dialogue and negotiation will lead to the adoption by collaborative producer/writer/director teams of project ideas and, with the aid of further workshops and group tutorials, the progressing of these selected projects through a development process. This will result in the creation of a short (15 mins) film screenplay and a feature film treatment (10 pages) to a professional industry standard.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to:
LO1: Conceptualise short film and feature film projects based on original ideas.
LO2: Appraise debate and defend the merits of these ideas during a pitching session.
LO3: Critically evaluate your work in the context of industry practices of project development.
LO4: Generate story, scenario and character materials for each project.
LO5: Synthesise differing creative inputs and approaches during the development process in order to enable the emergence of coherent and commercially attractive creative work.
LO6: Produce short film screenplay and feature film proposal documents to an industry standard within a prescribed development period.