ACF712 - Studio 1:  The Writer's Room

Year:

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s): 2
EFTSL value: 0.250
Cohort rule:

This unit is only available to students enrolled in A706.2 Master of Film and Television

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Study commitment

Students will on average spend 300-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - online

1 x 3-hour online seminar per week

Content

Through practical collaborative workshops, students will develop theessential skills required for devising and writing an episodic short-form project within a writers' room environment. Students will develop ideas andconcepts, character arcs, episodic story arcs, loglines, synopses,treatments, and a short episodic script for a web series. Students will reflectand act upon peer feedback. Students will produce a pitchdeck and screenplays to create a short-form web series in ACF713 Studio 2:Production.

Unit Fee Information

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