Capstone
Bringing it all together
Writing for Performance and the Entertainment Industries,
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:
1: Understanding story structure, dialogue, character and theme
2: Understanding how to work as your own producer with an entrepreneur’s mindset
3: How to create commercially viable scripts
4: How to anticipate audience reception
5: 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.
What you'll learn
- Specialised knowledge of histories, forms, and traditions of writing for performance and the entertainment industries as well as the cultural contexts of innovative practitioners and practices within performative writing; of contemporary critical, analytical, and narrative theories of performativity;
- 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.
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Length | 4 weeks |
Effort | 8 - 10 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $199 |
From | University of Cambridge via edX |
Instructor | Abigail Docherty |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Personal Development |
Tags | Communication |
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Entertainment Hostess $28k
Entertainment 2 $54k
National Entertainment $57k
Cost Accountant, Pace Industries $58k
Media/Entertainment $59k
Entertainment Services $62k
Buyer/Planner (Hennessy Industries) $64k
Entertainment 5 $68k
On air entertainment $71k
Head of Entertainment $82k
Superintendent of Industries and Education $83k
Entertainment Performer $85k
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Rating | Not enough ratings |
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Length | 4 weeks |
Effort | 8 - 10 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $199 |
From | University of Cambridge via edX |
Instructor | Abigail Docherty |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Personal Development |
Tags | Communication |
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