Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script
Characters 1 Perspectives, Failures and Humanity
A course by Gonzalo Ladines , Director and screenwriter
About the video: Characters 1 Perspectives, Failures and Humanity
Overview
“The characters are not human, but they must appear so. How do you do it? It is what I will explain to you in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Gonzalo Ladines addresses the topic: Characters 1 Perspectives, Failures and Humanity, 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
“Characters 1 Perspectives, failures and humanity The characters are not human, but they must appear so. In this lesson I will show you how to do it. While the flat characters can be defined with a single word, round characters have dreams, contradictions and different types of conflicts. Internal and external conflicts and in different worlds. The family member, the professional, the romantic ... Obviously round characters are richer, but that doesn't mean you can't use flat characters that are useful to you. I do not recommend, but look at "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", that, in fact, ...”
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Course summary for: Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script
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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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