Script Outline.

Assessment Type ¹: Plan Indicative Time on Task ²: 37 hours Due: 29/03/26 11:55pm Weighting: 35%

Drawing on material generated through weekly tutorial and iLearn exercises, select two ideas, one fiction, one documentary. Write short outlines for each of them. Details on assessment scope and examples will be discussed in tutorials. Refer to iLearn for further information. On successful completion you will be able to:

• analyse a range of screenwriting approaches and methodologies.
• generate story ideas and material suited to screen media.
• apply independent research and script writing skills to a creative project.
• evaluate screenwriting and creative work in progress.
• demonstrate the ability to reflect in action.

Script Drafts, Synopsis & Reflection

Assessment Type ¹: Creative work Indicative Time on Task ²: 50 hours Due: 24/05/26 11.55pm. Weighting: 50% Draft and Reflections (15%); Scripts (35%) :

Consolidate your work and learning this semester into a script for a short fictional or documentary screen production. Details on assessment scope and examples will be discussed in tutorials. Refer to iLearn for further information. On successful completion you will be able to:

• analyse a range of screenwriting approaches and methodologies.
• generate story ideas and material suited to screen media.
• apply independent research and script writing skills to a creative project.
• evaluate screenwriting and creative work in progress.
• demonstrate the ability to reflect in action.

Online Quizzes

Assessment Type ¹: Quiz/Test Indicative Time on Task ²: 11 hours Due: Fortnightly on Mondays at 11:55pm, starting week 2. Weighting: 15%

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of material covered in the unit through online quizzes. Further information can be found on ilearn. On successful completion you will be able to:

• analyse a range of screenwriting approaches and methodologies.
• evaluate screenwriting and creative work in progress.
• demonstrate the ability to reflect in action.

¹ If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

• the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
• the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

² Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Late Penalties

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends).

After the 7th day, a mark of '0' (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. This late penalty will apply to non-time sensitive assessment (incl. essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc).

Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special Consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic.

Lectures and tutorials start weekly from week 1. Attendance in tutorials is mandatory due to group workshopping in later weeks. 

Readings will be available on Leganto reading lists, or within weekly subject areas on ilearn. Leganto is situated on ilearn in the right hand banners.

Lecture recordings (for online students) on the echo platform via ilearn, on the right hand banners.

Please refer to the weekly modules on ilearn to see the Unit schedule and topics, as well as required readings.

This year, to respond to the increased use of AI due to Open AI policies, we are encouraging our students to learn the important aart of storytelling: structure, character, point of view, emotions, settings, audience engagement and interactivity, via our teachings and examples, so that these skills can be taken with you into all your future employment opportunities. While AI is able to be used in your final assessments, we have a range of in class tutorial activities, including workshopping of your script drafts, which will be observed and encourage your own writing and craft skills. Please do not rely on AI to learn the fundamentals of storytelling, rather use AI only to push your creativity and assist you in ways you may not be able to explore yourself.

For this reason, the final script task will be called 'Script Drafts, Synopsis and Reflection: this will involve submission of two drafts of the screenplay - a first and second draft, with annotations on the first one (which has been presented live in a workshop in class) and notes of what they received feedback on doing better, and how it could be better and why, including, if they use AI, how they will re-prompt to get better results. 

An addition to the reflection component of a narrative of working process, including AI prompts or feedback from other students you used to edit your script, or re-prompting they used and why. Also, remember, you don't have to use AI and your work will not necessarily be better if you do! AI tends to create work from genres, and won't always be as creatively inventive as you are!

This year, to respond to the increased use of AI due to Open AI policies vs Observed assessment (no use of AI), we are encouraging our students to learn the important art of storytelling: structure, character, point of view, emotions, settings, audience engagement and interactivity, via our teachings and examples, so that these skills can be taken with you into all your future employment opportunities. While AI is able to be used in your final assessments which are done from home, we have a range of in class tutorial activities, including workshopping of your script drafts, which will be observed and encourage your own writing and craft skills. Please do not rely on AI to learn the fundamentals of storytelling, rather use AI only to push your creativity and assist you in ways you may not be able to explore yourself.