Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script
Secondary Characters 1
A course by Gonzalo Ladines , Director and screenwriter
About the video: Secondary Characters 1
Overview
“Think about the characters that surround your protagonist: What functions do they have within the story? How do they see life? Do you like pizza with pineapple? These and other questions are what your characters will have to answer.”
In this video lesson Gonzalo Ladines addresses the topic: Secondary Characters 1, 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
“Secondary characters Let's think about the characters that surround your protagonist. How do they see life? What functions do they have within the story? Do you like pizza with pineapple? In my horror comedy, my protagonist is scared and the theme of the movie explores that. What we don't want is to have another fearful character. That is the comic perspective on my protagonist. We don't want to be repetitive. Each character has to have his own way of seeing the world. And if possible, that way of seeing the world it has to do with the subject we are dealing with. So what do we do with the ...”
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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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