Writing for Screen & Television
    Duration24 month(s)
    Tuition Fee
    USD 49,147 / Year
    Apply DateDecember 1, 2021
    Next IntakeAugust 22, 2022

    Writing for Screen & Television

    About

    Overview What you will learnIn addition to receiving an unparalleled master's education in the craft of writing, candidates at the Writing for Screen & Television MFA program offered at University of Southern California also benefit from the University's ties to the industry's top writers, directors, production companies, and studios in Los Angeles, yielding an array of internship and mentorship opportunities.During the course of their studies, students benefit from a wide array of internship and mentorship opportunities available as a result of the university's close links to the Los Angeles film industry's top screenwriters, directors, production companies and studios. I want to find another Master Course Course work includes practical instruction in everything a working writer needs to learn about the filmmaker's art and craft. Writing is taught in small workshop-style classes. The approach focuses on the visual tools of storytelling, developing stories from characters and then on an Aristotelian three act structure. Fractured narratives, ensemble stories, experiments with time and points of view, as well as other idiosyncratic styles of storytelling, are also addressed. The curriculum covers other professional concerns, including legal issues, agents and the Writer's Guild, as well as the history and analysis of cinema and television. Classes are taught by working writers with a wide variety of skills, experience and approaches.
    The Writing for Screen & Television MFA program offered at University of Southern California is a two-year degree program which concentrates on training screenwriters to work in the entertainment industry and beyond.

    Disciplines

    Film, Photography & MediaCreative Writing

    Requirements

    Academic Requirements

    • gre

    English Requirements

    • PTEMin 61
    • IELTSMin 6.5
    • TOEFLMin 90

    Other Requirements

    1Autobiographical Character SketchCreative Challenges (A & B)Most Challenging MomentWriting Sample (Maximum of 10 pages)Curriculum VitaeCreative Portfolio ListLetters of Recommendation (3).Submit the General USC Graduate Application for AdmissionSubmit Supplemental Materials via the SlideRoom ApplicationSend Official Academic TranscriptsSubmit Official English Proficiency Test Scores (International Applicants Only)Apply for SCA Scholarships (Optional).

    Fee Information

    Writing for Screen & Television

    University of Southern California

    University of Southern California

    United States of America

    United States of America, Los Angeles