Personal Development
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Capstone: Bringing it all together

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Course Features

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Duration

6 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

10 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Instructor Paced

Course Description

In this capstone course we will bring together and apply the five most important components of writing successfully for performance and the entertainment industries, across all the mediums we have covered:

Understanding story structure, dialogue, character and theme

Understanding how to work as your own producer with an entrepreneur’s mindset

How to create commercially viable scripts

How to anticipate audience reception

How to challenge yourself to work experimentally, and to write outside your comfort zone

You will be asked to reflect critically on your experience as well as to refine your favourite piece of work from the course. We will look at best-practice career tips as well, and review one essential concept from each course.

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Live Class

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Human Interaction

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Personlized Teaching

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International Faculty

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Post Course Interactions

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Learners must have completed and verified all 7 prior courses in the MicroMasters program

What You Will Learn

Developed advanced self-management skills to include working in planned and improvisatory ways, as well as the ability to anticipate and accommodate change, ambiguity, creative risk-taking, uncertainty and unfamiliarity

Specialised knowledge of histories, forms, and traditions of writing for performance and the entertainment industries

Course Instructors

Abigail Docherty

Course Director

Abigail is a playwright, working in theatre and for BBC Radio 4. She teaches performance and creativity at ICE. She is co-director of the MSt in Writing for Performance at the Institute of Continuing...
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