Course description
Business Success in the Screen Industries
This course is part of the University of Cambridges MicroMasters programme in Writing for Performance and Entertainment Industries.
How can you build a secure business base for your screenwriting career? What tools do you need to start your own production company? Which techniques do you need to learn in order to pitch ideas effectively to producers and directors? How important is networking in the film and TV industries, and what skills can you develop in order to do it successfully? What is a writers room and how can you learn to collaborate in time-pressured environments? In this course, we will be looking in depth at how create the best commercial platform in order that your creative work may flourish in the wider world.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Prerequisites:
None
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you'll learn
- Specialised knowledge of histories, forms, and traditions of writing for film and TV, as well as the cultural contexts of innovative practitioners and practices within performance; of contemporary critical, analytical, and narrative theories of performance;
- developed advanced self-management skills to include working in planned and improvisatory ways, as well as the ability to anticipate and accommodate change, ambiguity, creative risk-taking, uncertainty and unfamiliarity;
- how to create effective structure within a scene; how to edit your scene and think like a dramaturg; how to create effective characters.
- advanced awareness of the relevant market and distribution demands of the film and TV industries.
Course delivery details
This course is offered through University of Cambridge, a partner institute of EdX.
8-10 hours per week
Expenses
- Verified Track -$199
- Audit Track - Free