MA Script Writing

at Goldsmiths University of London

A core course is designed to give you the skills and understanding required to develop your treatment for a feature film or equivalent television or radio script. The course is taught mostly with workshops, in which you present and discuss your own work with other students in a supportive environment. There are also class exercises, lectures, screenings, master classes, seminars and individual tutorials.

Starting in the Spring Term, the course then develops your treatment into a second draft feature script (or its equivalent).

Over the course of the year, you will be able to pick from a selection of option modules.

Compulsory Modules

Module title   

• Scriptwriting    
• Reflection Essay 

You will also choose 75 credits of option modules from the following list.

Module title    

• Short Form Script 
• Strategies in World Cinema
• The Ascent of the Image
• Filmmakers Make Theory    
• Social Activist Film    
• Representing Reality    
• Sound Design Fundamentals   
• Camera Fundamentals   
• Film Producing Fundamentals    
• Visual Storytelling    
• Adaptation and Script Editing    
• Sound Storytelling and Intertextuality of Narrative 
• Contemporary Screen Narratives in Practice and Theory    

• An undergraduate degree of at least second-class standard in a relevant/related subject

International Tuition Fees:

£24350 per year

MA Script Writing is all about the product. So when you complete this masters, you leave with a whole portfolio of writing, a set of professional skills, a list of industry contacts, and a set of professional friendships through the Goldsmiths Screen School. 

The programme gives you a safe, supportive and stimulating environment to unpack your ideas, get constructive feedback, make mistakes, and find the story you want to tell. In the end though, it’s down to you as an individual to become the writer you want to be.