Script Development

14 months Part-time

London Blended

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Script Development

COURSE OVERVIEW

The most comprehensive vocational programme in script development in the UK.

This course aims to give you all the skills and expertise you need to develop highly polished scripts for film and television.

In partnership with BBC Drama

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“The NFTS Script Development Diploma was invaluable in giving me a vocabulary to use when working with writers.”

Tessa Inkelaar
Executive Producer, The Ink Factory

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This Diploma course offers you a comprehensive contemporary overview and ongoing practical learning in an intensive professional environment, preparing you for a successful career in the Industry.

During the course, you’ll get access to new screenwriters and regular industry speakers, as well as working on a practical development project with a screenwriter.

Learning is part-time, delivered by fortnightly online evening sessions over 14 months.

Funding Available

The NFTS want to encourage applications from the brightest and best talent out there, whatever your background. We are actively seeking to redress imbalances within the Industry by encouraging applications from under-represented groups, and have a limited number of bursaries on offer for UK applicants.

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Graduate Success

The course is designed to give you the highly developed skills needed to work with both scripts and screenwriters to create great content for the UK and international film and television Industries.

Poor Things

Development and Production Executive: Film4 Alice Whittemore

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Graduate Success

The course is designed to give you the highly developed skills needed to work with both scripts and screenwriters to create great content for the UK and international film and television Industries.

Masters of the Air

Script Coordinator Lois Graton

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Graduate Success

The course is designed to give you the highly developed skills needed to work with both scripts and screenwriters to create great content for the UK and international film and television Industries.

Graduates include...

Fiona Lamptey

Founder of Fruit Tree Media
Former Director of UK Features at Netflix

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Graduate Success

The course is designed to give you the highly developed skills needed to work with both scripts and screenwriters to create great content for the UK and international film and television Industries.

Chloe

Script Editor Ruth Trippitt

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Graduate Success

The course is designed to give you the highly developed skills needed to work with both scripts and screenwriters to create great content for the UK and international film and television Industries.

The Pale Horse

Executive Producer Basi Akpabio

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