Tuesday 12 October 2021

Coursework: Scriptwriting

A good script is an absolutely vital element of your TV drama coursework.

We now need to turn everything we've learned from our preliminary exercises and statements of intent into an outstanding, professionally-written TV script. There are some great resources below to help you.

Writing drama

Film vlogger Darius has a good video on writing a short film:



BBC Writers' Room
You'll find fantastic guidance for writing a script in the BBC Writers' Room

Click on the Script Library to read real examples of professional BBC scripts.


Task: Write your script

Write the script for your Science Fiction / Fantasy TV drama extract. Remember to make sure it meets the brief - o
ur coursework brief for 2022 can be found here. We are working on Brief 5 - TV drama.

Use Microsoft Word or Google Docs and make sure you lay out the page to make it look like a professional TV script. Use this real Doctor Who script as a guide if you're not sure what a real TV script should look like. 

Once you're happy with your script, copy and paste it into a new blogpost called 'TV Drama script' on your Media blog

Due date on Google Classroom

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