This course has been designed to nurture budding authors, to build their confidence and develop their writing skills, to expose them to a range of different genre and writing medium, help them to hone their craft, and most importantly, build their confidence.
In year one you will concentrate on developing a creative writing portfolio and setting up a website to promote your work. You will experience writing material for a range of different audiences and developing original content for a number of different mediums. These may include poetry; writing for children, the stage and radio. You will discover how to record sound effects and incorporate them into your scripts as well as .looking at lighting and stage design. Some of your work could be published in our online magazine Spotlight, giving you a chance to get your work read by a wider audience. In the second year you will work on a project for television which will include not only the script but promotional material including a short, filmed trailer. You will also investigate job opportunities, and perfect CVs and UCAS applications, should you decide to go to university. Throughout the course you will develop your research and presentation skills and conduct a major project of your own choosing which will form part of an exhibition at the end of each year.