Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script
Comedy, Genre, And the Comic Premise
A course by Gonzalo Ladines , Director and screenwriter
About the video: Comedy, Genre, And the Comic Premise
Overview
“Here I will explain what the conventions of the comic genre are and what a comic premise consists of.”
In this video lesson Gonzalo Ladines addresses the topic: Comedy, Genre, And the Comic Premise, 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
“Comedy, genre, and the comic premise In this lesson I will explain to you what are the conventions of the comic genre and what is a comic premise? To begin, we have to see what a comedy is. A comedy is a dramatic work narrated with humor, You want to make your audience laugh. These two concepts, humor and drama, They seem to be opposites, but they complement each other. What is drama? The drama is two forces, two wills that collide and oppose each other. How is this depicted in movies? You have the protagonist, who wants something, but he will always have an antagonist or a villain, or obst...”
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Course summary for: Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script
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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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