Course Title: Create and market a drama series
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C6160 Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting
Course Title: Create and market a drama series
Portfolio: Vocational Education
Nominal Hours: 140
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
COMM7354C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
345T Media and Communication |
Face-to-Face |
Term1 2019 |
COMM7354C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
375T Vocational Design and Social Context |
Face-to-Face |
Term1 2020 |
COMM7354C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
515T Creative Industries |
Face-to-Face |
Term1 2022, Term1 2023 |
Course Contact: Alan Woodruff
Course Contact Phone: +61399254307
Course Contact Email: alan.woodruff@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
In this course you'll originate and fashion your own TV series or serial with input from fellow students, teachers and industry professionals, and become skilled in the craft of writing and story/script editing scripted drama. You'll learn how a plotting room works through first-hand collaborative experience, story and script editing original material.
This course addresses the following units of competency, clustered for delivery and assessment:
- PSWDTV603 Create and market a drama series
- PSWDTV604 Script and story edit television drama
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Enrolment in this elective course at RMIT requires you to have completed all first year courses.
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
PSWDTV603 Create and market a drama series |
Elements: |
1. Identify opportunities for the project 2. Produce drama series concept 3. Develop pilot episode in a story meeting 4. Market the production |
Learning Outcomes
By taking this course, you'll acquire the skills to plot and write a pilot episode for your own show, complete a series bible, and devise strategies for taking your project to the local and international marketplace.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment is ongoing throughout the course. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through participation in class exercises, story conferences, pitching presentations and through the application of learned skills and insights to your writing tasks.