This is the only comprehensive vocational programme in script development in the UK.
This part-time, fortnightly online evening course takes place over 14 months and aims to give students all the skills and expertise they need to develop scripts for film and television.
Students get access to new screenwriters and regular industry speakers, as well as working on a practical development project with a screenwriter.
All NFTS students can attend Masterclasses. Recent guests include David Fincher (Fight Club), Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave), Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Ben Wheatley (Free Fire), Rapman (Blue Story), Louis Theroux, Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone), Denis Villeneuve (Bladerunner 2049), Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), Sam Mendes (1917), Asif Kapadia (Senna), Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir), Russell T Davies (Doctor Who) and Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire).
The Diploma offers the most comprehensive contemporary overview and on-going practical learning in an intensive professional environment. The programme combines lectures, seminars and workshops alongside talks and panel discussions with current industry practitioners, as well as supervised practical work with a screenwriter.
There are continuous written assignments (some assessed, some not) throughout the taught section of the programme which are mostly practical and designed to be useful to a career in development, as well as other areas of the film industry.
The programme consists fortnightly 2hr online sessions held on a Monday evening from 7pm - 9pm, plus 3 intensive weekend workshops running from September to April.. The Final Project element of the Diploma is a six-month supervised development project, which begins in April when students are paired with a screenwriter. The delivery of all assessed material for the Final Project is due in October.
Beaconsfield, London, Part-Time, 1 Year (Monday Evenings)
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Beaconsfield, 2 Years, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 2 Years, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 2 Years, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 2 Years, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 2 Years, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 2 Years, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 1 Year, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 1 Year, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 15 Months, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 1 Year, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 1 Year, Full-Time
Beaconsfield, 1 Year, Part-Time
Beaconsfield, 1 Year, Part-Time (Monday Evenings)
London, 1 Year, Part-Time (Thursday Evenings)
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Beaconsfield, 12 Weeks, Full-Time
This course is designed to help new producers enter the world of professional filmmaking.
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