Highlights
- From coming up with ideas to formatting and marketing scripts
- Covers business and creative aspects of writing for screen
- 13 modules sent at two-day intervals, access for 1 year
- Online final exam with certificate on completion
About This Deal
The Deal
Budding screenwriters can enrol on the Fairford Centre's distance learning course. Participants will work through 13 modules, covering everything from the initial stages of writing to appropriate formats and approaches for different genres and styles of script. For those that have finished their writing, the course also includes a section on how to market scripts with a view to getting them noticed by producers.
Course Syllabus
Introduction
Inspiration
FIlms
Television
Genre
Setting the scene
Types of screenplay
Plotting
Characters
Formatting
Rewriting and loose ends
Marketing
The full syllabus can be found here.
The Merchant
The Fairford Centre offers distance learning courses from centres in London, South Africa and Australia, as well as their head office in Somerset. Courses range from nutrition to screenwriting, with content often provided on paper and online with assignments submitted either via email or post. Pupils are also able to receive additional support from others studying through online student common rooms.
Fine Print
Purchase: Limit 1 per person. May buy 2 additional as gifts.
Booking: Required online: http://fairfordcentre.com/screenwriting-certificate/index.htm.
Restrictions: Valid for 12 months from redemption date.
Original values: Verified using invoices 17 Oct 2013.
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