2025/6 - AMAP6106B Writing Television Drama (30 credit variant)

Spring Semester, Level 6 module, Credits: 30 UCU, Media Studies

Organiser: Dr Geraint D'Arcy

Assessment Type: Coursework and Project

This module emulates the contemporary television writer’s room and aims to see you contribute to the development and delivery of a new television drama. This module is designed to help you improve your individual screenwriting skills and give you experience of working in a collaborative environment to pitch ideas, break stories and create your own television shows. You will learn about industrial models for producing television drama, streaming platforms, and study the constraints and opportunities offered by television forms such as series, serial, anthology, adaptations and episodic. You will practice writing in these different forms and experiment with different styles, before forming groups to pitch a series which you will then develop over an intense period of weeks.   In this term-long process you will explore the roles of staff writers and staff editors in a writer’s room of a serialized television drama. You'll work on developing story ideas, creating a plan for your show, mapping out narratives, developing characters and building a serialized narrative. For your final project, you will write your own episode that contributes to the series you have helped create. 

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST TAKE AMAP4038B OR TAKE AMAP4001A OR TAKE AMAP5051A OR TAKE AMAP5052B OR TAKE LDCC5016A OR TAKE LDCC5016B OR TAKE LDCC5015A OR TAKE LDCC5015B OR TAKE LDCC5017A OR TAKE LDCC5017B OR TAKE LDCC5005A.