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This module provides Television Fiction Writing students with the opportunity to be assessed for a Masters qualification based on a portfolio of self-created original television fiction writing work, alongside critical reflection on practice. The Independent Script Project is the direct, appropriate equivalent (in terms of vocationally focused scriptwriting education best equipped to maximise future employment opportunities) to the traditional Masters dissertation and incorporates within it strong research, evaluative and critical reflective elements. As such it represents the culminating Masters element for Television Fiction Writing students. Students will be encouraged to develop and draw on television fiction writing knowledge, understanding and skills acquired throughout the entire diploma part of their programme of study, with a view to using all of these in order independently to research and create for their culminating Masters project an original drama. Students will additionally submit, as evidence of career planning and development, a fully developed CV. In Semester B, prior to the execution of the project, students will receive guidance and briefings regarding planning the project, leading to the preparation by the student of a formal proposal. On the basis of the proposal, they will be allocated to an individual supervisor with appropriate TV fiction industry knowledge and experience for the project proposed, the role of whom will be to provide supervisory guidance and direction over the period of the student's creation and writing of the project.

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