The Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts at Full Sail University equips students for a career in narrative and multimedia content creation. The ability to tell a story through the use of words and images and distribute narratives through a variety of media formats are now standard skills required of multimedia creators in production companies. Across the entertainment and media industries and beyond, professional writers and media creators are essential in crafting the compelling stories and writing elements needed to captivate today’s demanding media clients, consumers, and audiences. The Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts extends the opportunity to not only perfect students' script, screen, and story writing abilities but also to incorporate visual storytelling, narrative structures, character development into their projects.
The degree program fosters the creative writing and multimedia content production skills and knowledge required across professional roles in the entertainment media industries. Students will work with industry-standard tools, including Final Draft and Adobe Creative Cloud, along with AI-assisted tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Suno, and Gemini. In addition, students will further develop leadership, project-management, and research skills; sharpen their technical prowess; conduct and utilize industry research; and ultimately market their final creative portfolio. As the field increasingly adopts AI-assisted tools, students will learn to apply them as a support to their editorial and creative judgment, not as a replacement for it. Students will graduate with a portfolio of original written work, assembled to professional standards and suitable for presentation to employers and clients.
The objective of the Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts degree program is to provide students with focused knowledge of visual storytelling, narrative structures, multimedia skills, character creation and development, writing, analysis and criticism, and editing for a variety of niches and distribution methods in media. Across the curriculum, students will build core technical competencies, including narrative development, screenwriting, episodic and serial writing, content creation for interactive media, and will apply these skills through hands-on project-based work. The Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts also further cultivates the leadership, project-management, and research skills needed to help shape and drive their future creative endeavors. Completion of the program will enable graduates to meet today’s demand for content creators and editors in the entertainment and media industries and other adjacent professional capacities. Students will also build fluency with current creative writing tools and workflows, including AI-assisted tools applied as a complement to their editorial and creative judgment.