Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script
Presentation
A course by Gonzalo Ladines , Director and screenwriter
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“Here I will tell you who I am, what I have done in life, my traumas and why we have to take comedy seriously. ”
In this video lesson Gonzalo Ladines addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script. Explore the fundamentals of comedy and the tools for writing a script that tells your story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Welcome. Thank you for signing up for my course. Here I will tell you who I am, what I have done in life, my traumas and why should we take comedy seriously. I am Gonzalo Ladines, director and writer of films and series. Yes, I have a beard and I wear tortoiseshell glasses. Yes, I am a guiche. While I have had the opportunity to work in different genres, life has brought me closer to comedy and I'm here, doing this comic script course, pigeonholing me even more. Why do comedy? Because it is the best way to reach others. Who doesn't like to laugh? I remember when I made my class...”
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Course summary for: Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script
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Areas
Fiction Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, Writing

Gonzalo Ladines
A course by Gonzalo Ladines
With a communications degree and a master's in screenwriting, Gonzalo Ladines discovered that his passion for screenwriting lays in comedy. He has written and directed multi-award-winning shorts and his co-founded web series Los Cinéfilos has accumulated over 16 million views.
In 2015, he wrote and directed his debut comedy feature, Como en el Cine (Just Like in the Movies), which went on to win the Audience Award at the NewFilmmakers LA Film Festival, sponsored by the Hollywood Academy. He also co-wrote Viejos Amigos (Old Friends) and Papá Youtuber, the first Peruvian film sold for international remakes. As well as a director and screenwriter, Gonzalo is an advertising director, teacher, script adviser, and playwright.
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