Writing an Audiovisual Comedy Script
Comic resources 2: Understatement, Overstatement and Taking It to the Extreme
A course by Gonzalo Ladines , Director and screenwriter
About the video: Comic resources 2: Understatement, Overstatement and Taking It to the Extreme
Overview
“Weren't the above resources enough for you? Don't worry, there's more here, even Hitchcock!”
In this video lesson Gonzalo Ladines addresses the topic: Comic resources 2: Understatement, Overstatement and Taking It to the Extreme, 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
“Comic Resources 2 Understatement, Overstatement, and Taking It to the Extreme What is overstatement and understatement? Understatement Overstatement Here we talk about Alfred Hitchcock. Yes, the master of suspense also did comedy. Let's start with the "understatement". According to Alfred Hitchcock It is the undervaluation, the understatement, the presentation in light tone of very dramatic events. What does it mean? For example, a story in which two co-workers they are invited by their boss to a beach house, but they arrive and find him dead. What would be done? They would worry, they woul...”
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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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