LT146-4-AU-CO:
Writing for the Radio
2015/16
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
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10 April 2012
Requisites for this module
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CS101 and LT111 and LT145 and LT191 and LT192
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BA W800 Creative Writing,
BA W801 Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA PW38 Film and Creative Writing,
BA PWH8 Film and Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad)
This module is only available to Creative Writing (W800) students.
This 10 week module will explore writing for radio, with a particular focus on drama. We will listen to a wide range of radio drama currently broadcast on the BBC, as well as classic radio drama such as Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, and works by Samuel Beckett and Angela Carter, and modern classics such as Lee Hall's Spoonface Steinberg. We will discuss the possibilities that radio offers the writer, from the artistic to the practical. We will articulate basic principles and useful tools of dramatic construction, but with a particular emphasis on radio techniques and how the dramatist can exploit the unique properties of the medium.
Students will be encouraged to listen to as much radio drama as possible, in their own time as well as in class, and to make full use of iPlayer and the BBC's online resource, Writers' Room. One session of the module will take place in the University's recording Studio where excerpts of radio scripts written by students will be recorded.
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Teaching is by weekly seminar. These will involve listening to and reading radio plays, tutor talks, discussion, individual writing exercises and group work.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Assignment: Radio Drama and Commentary |
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90% |
| Practical |
Class Participation |
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10% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
To be confirmed
LiFTS Taught Team - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Mr Rupert Loydell
Falmouth University
Senior Lecturer
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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