Diploma in Screenwriting | (1 Year)

Programme Overview
Awarded by: Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Deemed University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956.
The objective of this 1-year, 2-semester course is to help create professional screenwriters. They need to develop writing skills that will help them write for a wide range of genres, for cinema as well as television, with some basic understanding of the craft of writing short films, corporate films, documentaries, and advertisement films. The deeper aim of the course is to help student-writers discover their own voice, free up their creativity, hone their intuition and impart to them the skills through which they are able to write their own original as well as others’ stories. The course makes students learn screenwriting by actual hands-on writing on a continuous basis with active mentoring from faculty, combined with a study of the widest range of cinema and narrative literature, via intensive theory classes, workshops, and interaction with many senior and experienced writers and writer-directors. Apart from this, the course offers other educational inputs from the field of culture and arts, especially from theatre, and from ancient narrative traditions like mythology and folk tales.
Semester Course Structure
Course Code |
Course Title |
Theory Credits |
Sem |
Practical Credits |
Total Credits |
Total Hours |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FMGE 1102 |
Film Analysis and History I |
1 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
30 |
FMGE 1106 |
Production Design I |
2 |
0 |
2 |
30 |
|
FMGE 1105 |
Culture Studies I |
2 |
0 |
2 |
30 |
|
FMGE 1107 |
Music in Film I |
2 |
0 |
2 |
30 |
|
FMDS 1101 |
Essentials of Screenwriting – D |
5 |
8 |
13 |
315 |
|
FMDS 1102 |
Writing a Short Film – D |
0 |
5 |
5 |
150 |
|
FMGE 1113 |
Film Analysis and History II |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
30 |
FMGE 1109 |
Culture Studies II |
2 |
0 |
2 |
30 |
|
FMDS 1201 |
Advanced Screenwriting – D |
4 |
8 |
12 |
300 |
|
FMBS 2203 |
Writing for Television |
0 |
6 |
6 |
180 |