Career Pathways
Independent
A freelance scriptwriter would need the basic skills of being able to form a script, and have it presented in the standard that is required. This is because when being a freelance scriptwriter, it is the same as being self employed. This means that you would have to go out and find people who are looking for someone to write up a script for them. This could be from an amateur company all the way up to a professional company. However, in order to get these companies to pay you to make them a script, you would need to have a good reputation with other companies who can reference you. By doing this it will make it easier for you to find other companies that will be willing to pay you, which means you could end up writing scripts for famous companies and get paid a good amount for it.
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Voluntary Sector
From the link below, voluntary experience for scriptwriting is available for everybody from the ages of 16 and above. This allows people to learn how to make scripts with having experience or having no experience at all. The skills you will learn from doing this, is being able to form a full standard script that people can use to perform. Also, you will be able to understand what is needed on a script and how they all benefit each other. By doing this experience it will give you an advantage when being employed as it gives you the experience that an employer would be looking for.
Employment
With being employed to be a scriptwriter, the required skills that would be needed would be experience. This is because most employers look for people who have the required amount of experience, so they know you will have some form of professionalism when working. Also, another skill the employer would be looking for would be having a good imagination. This could be either placed in your CV or you could mention it if the employer was to ask you to talk about yourself. However, if the employer was asking for proof that you have experience, the best way to convince them, is either by having a GCSE or A Level in Drama, as the exams for Drama requires you to write up a script. If you do not have this then you can show the employer, evidence of you writing up scripts for either a theater company who have decided to try and make their own show. This will then show the employer that you are capable of writing up a script above an amateur level which can be used to create a public show.
Work based training
Work based training is a form of education where an employee would be educated while gaining work experience on the work they have selected. This would benefit a scriptwriter as Channel 4 careers offers people this experience, which will allow employees to gain experience and learn from what their employer is teaching them. However, the course is only 2 weekends, so individual learning would also be required in order to give you an advantage against others. What you will be doing in this course is that you would be required to create a 1 hour Drama piece, while having your script after the performance being considered an option for 6 months, before setting up a meeting letting you know if you have the job or not. The skills that Channel 4 would be looking for before even considering you suitable for the role is experience in forms of scriptwriting, grades in either GCSE or A level drama to show you have knowledge on how a script should be presented. However, having references from other companies that you could have worked for when writing up a script for their productions would be helpful to both you and the employer. 4Screenwriting | Channel 4 Careers
Further education
Further education for scriptwriting can be obtainable in courses such as University. For example, The University of Manchester offers a 1 year course of Screenwriting. This would benefit a student who wants to become a full time scriptwriter, as not only by achieving the requirements to pass, they would also get a Master of Arts Degree awarded to them.
Course overview- During the course, students will have a 1 year course that aims to develop students writers voice, along with giving them a professional practice of screenwriting, to help guide them through the professional aspects of screenwriting that can inspire their own work and format it to how others present their screenwriting/scripts. However, the course also includes opportunities for internships at production companies, that can either be used for work experience or full time employment.
Higher education
Higher education is also available in University such as Central Film School London, that do a 2 year full time course in Screenwriting. From doing this course students will get a Bachelor of Arts Qualification once they have passed their course with the work up to standards. In the first year, you will study Visual Storytelling, where you use moving image along with drawing traditions of art, Photography and theatre.
Next is Screen Studies, where you focus on the study of films from multiple perspectives. This includes thematic, narrative structure and genre.
For the second year, you would write Episodic Drama, which will get you get you to examine the characteristics of episodic fiction on TV and streaming platforms.
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