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Study Details: 12 months (full time)
The course has been created as a stepping stone into commercial performing arts careers as advised by industry organisations that are part of the new talent supply chain. MA Comedy Writer-Performer teaches students how to develop their own content by writing scripts they can star in, whether it is a short film for narrowcast, a half-hour TV comedy pilot, an hour-long TV drama or a feature length play or film.
You will be taught across your units by industry professionals within broadcast departments, production houses and agency networks. They will work with you to build and hone your skills and develop your self-penned performance work so you’re industry-ready by the end of the course. You’ll benefit from guest lectures and workshops from a range of leading industry professionals: established writer/performers, producers, agents, directors and commissioners.
MA Comedy Writer-Performer is offered in full-time mode and runs for 45 weeks over 12 months. You will be expected to commit an average of 40 hours per week to your course, including teaching hours and independent study.
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This unit will develop your skills as a live performer, focusing on playful and improvisational approaches for the creation of new performance and characters. Studio workshops examine and cultivate students’ approaches to character development, fostering a playful, creative and supportive environment in which to test new work.
Performances are tested at a series of public scratch nights that run alongside the unit, giving performers an opportunity to try out and develop original performance work in front of audiences. By the end of this unit, you will have developed a 10-minute solo character performance through a combination of workshop sessions, scratch nights, tutor and peer feedback and independent study.
This unit develops your practical knowledge of contemporary industry practices and the marketplace, honing the fundamental technical and creative storytelling skills to be a successful freelance comedy writer/performer. You’ll learn how to best showcase your work: how to win at securing existing opportunities, but also take control and create your own opportunities. Verbal pitching skills will also be developed on this unit.
You’ll create and deliver a new idea for a TV or audio series, featuring a central character that you will play. Taking what you’ve learnt about contemporary industry needs and practices, you’ll deliver a verbal pitch to sell your idea, with an accompanying written pitch document.
Starting from scratch, this unit develops the fundamental storytelling and scriptwriting skills you’ll need to be a professional writer/performer.
The skills developed on this unit will enable you to create and deliver a scripted narrative, starring a nuanced central character, ideal for you to play. You’ll learn everything you need to develop a scripted narrative idea from scratch. You’ll learn the technical side of writing – script layout – and how to effectively employ improvisation to make your script as strong and winning as possible.
You’ll deliver an industry-level script for a short form comedy, which will serve you as an industry calling-card for your writer/performer skills. Alongside your script, students also deliver a 2-minute taster tape, bringing your central character and script to life.
Building on the live performance skills developed across Semester 1, and utilising sketch writing skills just learned in unit 3, this unit equips students with the skills to film, edit, and share character performance across video and audio platforms.
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