Writing Drama (Online) offered by Oxford University
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Writing Drama (Online) at Oxford University Overview
Duration | 10 weeks |
Total fee | ₹43,700 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
Writing Drama (Online) at Oxford University Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
Writing Drama (Online) at Oxford University Course details
- Develop a series of key technical skills that are intrinsic to all dramatic writing
- Develop further understanding of both the similarities and differences between Stage, Radio, TV and Film
- Practice individually and collectively exercises designed to improve their skills as dramatists
- Build a writerly practice around the 'Portfolio' model
- This creative and critical course will help students to turn their passion for drama, whether stage, radio, television, or film, into the craft of dramatic writing, and to understand and appreciate the work of established dramatists
- Students will learn the key elements of successful dramatic writing: structure; characterisation; dialogue; and be shown how to employ these in their own work
- They will also acquire greater understanding of the four main media: stage; radio; television; and film; as well as insights into genre and adaptation
Writing Drama (Online) at Oxford University Curriculum
In The Beginning
All for one, one for all
Online resources
The Writer's journal
Don't get it right, get it written
Audiences
Where do Stories come from?
Nothing new under the sun
What works best?
Building a world
The iceberg principle
Giving the audience what they want but not in the way they expect it
Working through the complexity to the simplicity beyond
Structure 1: Building Blocks
The rules
Changing the rules
Rules within rules
The 3 R's
Story v plot v narrative
Exposition
Structure 2: Focus
Who is Hamlet?
Dialectics
Axis and currency
Author, author!
Moral centre
Structure 3: Variations on a Theme
Genre
Working with genre
Genre in television and film
Anti-genre and high concept
Cops 'n docs
Adaptation
Adaptation -Different takes
Characterisation
Character -A short history
Character -Base camp
Character -Inner v outer
Character = action
Conflict and jeopardy
Sympathy v empathy
Dialogue
Function
Status
Sub-text and metaphor
Soliloquy
Theatre, radio, television or film?
Finding a voice
Show, don't tell
Making a Scene
Scenes -Programme
Scenes -Context
Scene -Action
Scene -Situations
The obligatory scene
Difference and Similarity
Writing for the theatre
Writing for the radio
Writing for television
Writing for film
Format
From Page to Stage
Collaboration
Rewriting and editing
Script editing
Opportunities
Expectations
Writing Drama (Online) at Oxford University Faculty details
Writing Drama (Online) at Oxford University Entry Requirements
- Prerequisite: Familiar with using a computer for purposes such as sending email and searching the Internet
- Yes
- In countries where the normal examinations have been cancelled, university will expect the conditions of student's offer to be met by the alternative assessment put in place by qualifications' regulators.
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