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About the course

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.

Qualification

Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology

 

Entry requirements

Diploma - 4 GCSEs at grade 4 or above including grade 4 in English Language or a Level 2 in Multimedia at a Merit or above.

Extended Diploma – successful completion of the Level 3 Diploma at a Merit or above.

Who is it suitable for?

Anyone looking hoping to start a career as an author, script writer, playwright, or working within the publishing industry.

Awarding Body

UAL (University of the Arts London)

Why study?

You will learn how to craft your own original stories, and develop your writing skills in classes structured to focus on improving your spelling and grammar, and enhance your appreciation of existing works of fiction in an effort to improve your own material. Working within a number of different mediums, and across a series of genre you will be given freedom to choose what content you want to create.  

Classes are taught face-to-face in a classroom setting. You will receive 1-2-1 tutorials to help nurture and develop your work.

Where will this course take me?

Those who complete this course can expect to graduate onto university, the UAL level 4 in Business Enterprise, or onto the NCTJ Diploma in News or Magazine Journalism.

Core modules

The course consists of 13 core modules.

How will I be assessed?

Coursework

Will I have to provide anything?

You will need a notebook, pen and pencils.

I'm interested. What should I do now?

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Funding Your Course

If you're aged 19 or over and you want to study A Levels, an Access to Higher Education Diploma, or a Level 3 to 6 Vocational Qualification, you could be eligible for an Advanced Learner Loan.