Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script
Subgenres and Tone 2
A course by Gonzalo Ladines , Director and screenwriter
About the video: Subgenres and Tone 2
Overview
“I will continue to tell you about the subgenres.”
In this video lesson Gonzalo Ladines addresses the topic: Subgenres and Tone 2, 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
“Subgenres and tone Now let's look at a more romantic sub-genre, the "screwball." In the "screwball", couples are torn between love and hate. They have empowered women, a smart heartthrob, and they're full of tangles and some physical gags. A critic defined them Like a sex comedy, but without sex. And that's what they are the film is sustained by a battle of the sexes. Some examples are "Bridget Jones's Diary", "Like life itself", or the classic "It happened one night." Here I leave you with a scene from "It happened one night", where the protagonists do not know how to spend a night togethe...”
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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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