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Course: 2025/2026

Scriptwriting for television (fiction)
(13550)
Bachelor in Film, Television and Media Studies (Study Plan 2017) (Plan: 382 - Estudio: 211)


Coordinating teacher: GALAN FAJARDO, HELENA MARIA

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
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Objectives
1. Understanding the creative and industrial process in developing a script for a television fiction. 2. Understanding the different tools available for a television writer. 3. Ability to undertake a fiction project for television.
Learning Outcomes
LEARNING OUTCOMES 2.To apply the acquired knowledge and their capacities to the resolution of complex and/or specialized problems in the professional field of audiovisual media. 4.To be able to deal with complex situations or situations that require the development of new solutions in the academic, work or professional field in the audiovisual media industry. 6.To be able to identify their owntraining needs in their field of study and work or professional environment and to organize their own learning with a high level of autonomy in all types of contexts (structured or not)." 7.To use and organize in an appropriate way the resources and tasks necessary for the elaboration of an audiovisual work. 8.To manage the design and production of an audiovisual work, according to the script, work plan or previous budget. BASIC COMPETENCES 2.Students are able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the competences usually demonstrated through the development and defence of arguments and problem solving within their field of study. 5.Students will have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further study with a high degree of autonomy. SPECIFIC COMPETENCES 1.To assimilate and apply the theoretical-practical foundations of the technologies, techniques, resources and procedures required for the creation and production of audiovisual work. 5.To understand and to identify the communicative and narrative models of the audiovisual media and their relationship with society and culture, considering the fundamental rights and equality between men and women, the principles of equal opportunities, and the values of a culture of peace and social coexistence in democracy.
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction: audiovisual media and writing process. 2. Scriptwriting for television fiction: rules, languaje, trends. 3. The creation of a television series. 3.1. The starting point: the development of the concept. 3.2. The main concepts of the project: the "bible" 3.3. The characters and the characterization process. 3.4. The development of plot lines: the map frame. 3.5. The "escaleta". 3.6. Dialogues. 3.7. The presentation of projects: the "pitching. "
Learning activities and methodology
1. Theorical classes: Students will be introduced to the basic concepts of narrative television, specifically focusing on fiction. They will be also introduced to the differents tools that are necessary for creating a script for a fiction series. Competency 1. 2. Practical classes: Through practical sessions, students will apply the concepts previously established and explained in the theorical lessons. Competencies 2 and 3. 3. Student work. Students will develop a project of a fiction series for television ("bible"). Competencies 2 and 3.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Dancyger, Ken. Alternative Scriptwriting: successfully Breaking the Rules . Elsevier/Focal Press. 2007
  • Goldberg, Lee y Rabkin, William,. Successful television writing,. John Wiley &Sons, Inc., New Jersey, 2003..
  • Ryan, M. L. (Ed.) . Narrative across media. The languages of storytelling. University of Nebraska Press.
  • Sandler, Ellen. The TV Writer's Workbook : A Creative Approach To Television Scripts . Delta Trade Paperbacks. 2007
  • Smethurst, William,. How to write for television-A guide to writing and selling successful TV script,. Howtobooks, Oxford, 2007..
Additional Bibliography
  • GARCÍA DE CASTRO, MARIO. La ficción televisiva popular, Una evolución de las series de televisión en España. Gedisa. 2002
  • Rueda Laffond, José Carlos y Coronado Ruiz, Carlota. La mirada televisiva: ficción y representación histórica en España . Fragua . 2009

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.