Guardian Tips

Some top tips from the Guardian on how to approach writing

BBC Writers Room Advice

The BBC's writers room has to be one of the best online scriptwriting resources around - make sure that you use it:  Link

Click here for their Toolkit page - lots of interviews and advice on how to write and format your script properly Link

Writing a Synopsis Advice

Click here for some sound advice on how to approach your synopsis with some great templates to use too:

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Planning Documents

The creative realisation planning work should include:

• A synopsis
• Storyboard
• A written script for the non-filmed sequence
• A treatment
• A recce/location report
• Evidence of casting considerations
• A risk assessment

starting points

Use this document to help you construct some linked starting points for your work

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Pitches

Produce a 2 minute presentation using the following  slide headers:

Key conclusions (use last year's examples if stuck)

Character

Narrative

Stylistics
Theoretical approaches
Genre driven considerations

This is the start of your synopsis, and will be written up later as a word processed side of A4.