SICS – Screen writing and teacher training

Michael Rowland Hill talks to SICS careers adviser Gill Sharp about writing screenplays while teacher training in Madrid.

Michael talks about the creative writing process, getting ideas and scheduling his work to get through a project.  He explains how he has made contacts, had scripts read and handled feedback. He also describes his work in Spain, training teachers of English, and how it has helped him in his writing, both through analysing English language and literature for his students, and through being an ‘observer’ in another culture.

Why should someone write?

…before you start writing… you need to have some kind of artistic credo, which sounds a bit pretentious, but what I mean by that is that the last thing the world needs is just another run-of-the-mill film.

…that is one of my main reasons for writing, no one else is really saying what I want to say, and so it is up to me to say it.

This podcast is the second in a series of four SICS podcasts on careers using the written word, funded by the Higher Education Academy.

(MP3 – 22min 13s)

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