Script-writing techniques Field of study: Creative management in new media
Programme code: W8-S2CM20.2022

Module name: Script-writing techniques
Module code: W8-ZN-S2-TPS
Programme code: W8-S2CM20.2022
Semester:
  • winter semester 2024/2025
  • winter semester 2023/2024
  • winter semester 2022/2023
Language of instruction: English
Form of verification: exam
ECTS credits: 3
Description:
The aim of the course is to learn the rules and accepted norms of writing a script, use language, formatting, building scenes, sequences, etc. The ability to select an idea and how to tell it in a formally and substantively correct way is of great importance here. Any audiovisual form, short or long, feature, documentary or animation or in kind; serial, reportage or advertising and social always requires a scenario basis. And as in any of the above-mentioned forms, this scenario may vary and contain details or only general statements. Each audiovisual implementation requires a script preparation. Classes are a combination of theoretical and practical knowledge about the scenario, based on various forms, an example of such a scenario will be shown and discussed. The student will have to answer the question, what topic is going to be addressed, who is or will be the recipient of its implementation, how to reach its recipients, whether the chosen topic is worth pursuing and finally whether this material will bring the expected financial results. The student will get acquainted with the screenwriting nomenclature and will be subject to the analysis of films on whether the script was well written according to general rules.
Prerequisites:
Student has to have skills in story telling, presenting his ideas and opinions.
Key reading:
A. Astremsky: Story – Flash: step by Step Technology of Plot Development, 2018 A.A. Armer: Writing the screenplay: TV and Film, 2002 J. Truby: The Anatomy of Story, 2007
Learning outcome of the module Codes of the learning outcomes of the programme to which the learning outcome of the module is related [level of competence: scale 1-5]
Student acquires technical and substantive knowledge in the field of script preparation. [TPS_1]
 K_W05 [4/5]
Student has knowledge of the attractiveness of the idea and the ability to acquire interesting topics or to come up with them for use in projects in new media. [TPS_2]
 K_W06 [5/5]
Student learns to have an open mind and to be focused on the surrounding world, as well as the ability to listen to others and be open to criticism. [TPS_3]
 K_U05 [4/5]
Student has the ability to find a niche to use new media in the implementation of their ideas. [TPS_4]
 K_U07 [5/5]
Student learns to be assessed through the prism of his idea, as well as learning about the world through the prism of his environment and the ability to pass it on in their script. [TPS_5]
 K_K05 [4/5]
Student also learns a certain sensitivity to topics close to him and his environment, learns social division, as to reading the same topics in different ways by different people. [TPS_6]
 K_K06 [3/5]
Type Description Codes of the learning outcomes of the module to which assessment is related
Test [TPS_w_1]
Written or oral test, consisting in verification of the following competences: script writing rules, including formatting and history composition principles, with the use of knowledge on the subject. Knowledge of the transmission of information by means of images and using the smallest possible number of words.
 TPS_1 TPS_2
Continuous evaluation [TPS_w_2]
The final grade is the average of individual works, including a short description of the student’s idea, a review and the script itself.
 TPS_3 TPS_4 TPS_5 TPS_6
Form of teaching Student's own work Assessment of the learning outcomes
Type Description (including teaching methods) Number of hours Description Number of hours
lecture [TPS_fs_1]
Thematic lecture, with comparative elements, common discussion and work of all participants on a given script.
 15
Analysis of the literature on the subject, analysis of the lecture content, searching for examples in practice, independent implementation of the indicated material batches, including the subject literature.
 30 Test [TPS_w_1]
practical classes [TPS_fs_2]
Pitching / presentation of the idea to a group of participants.
 15
Individual preparation for each class, systematization of the material presented during classes, preparation of projects - also group ones. Independent implementation of the material batch indicated in the syllabus and analysis of examples selected by the lecturer, repetition and consolidation of knowledge and skills acquired during the course.
 30 Continuous evaluation [TPS_w_2]
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Syllabuses (USOSweb)
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