Could You Write A Story?
University College Falmouth press release
Do you have a story in your head that could captivate an audience that could be translated into a ten-minute film? Have you got the creative capability to write stories for TV, film or radio - or for the web, mobile phones or video games? Do you need help to write your script or in navigating the challenges of technology in order to realise your ambition? Are you looking for a new career challenge in these recessionary times?
If so, then University College Falmouth - in collaboration with TAPS, the leading training scheme for new television writers, and BBC Training and Development - is offering places on a training course, to be run by experienced tutor, Sam Snape, that aims to find and train new writers for film, television and other media.
The course will take place at University College Falmouth's Tremough Campus from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 November inclusive as part of a writerSearch programme that is being offered across all Celtic nations. The final module of the course will bring a number of delegates together to see their scripts being given a rehearsed reading at the BBC's studios in Cardiff on a date to be confirmed.
"University College Falmouth's School of Media is delighted to be working in partnership with TAPS and the BBC to identify and shape the best of Cornwall's screenwriting talent," said Christina Bunce, who leads the College's MA in Professional Writing. "If you are a writer with experience or potential, are over 16 years of age and live in Cornwall, you can apply to the course by submitting any original story, on one side of A4, that you feel could work as a ten-minute film."
Stories do not need to be in script format as you will be taught how to format a script on the course. The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Monday 2 November.
The fee for the course is £150. For an application form, please email admin@tapsnet.org or call TAPS on 01932 592 151.
For further information about the School of Media at University College Falmouth, visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/media, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213730.
University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.
This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012/2013 that will be unique to the South West.
The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.