Advanced Screenwriting Mastery
Chapter Three: Comedy
While developing this masterclass series, we uncovered a hidden truth. Almost EVERY single screenplay would be improved by authentically working in some humour. Be it a snigger, a grin of recognition or a belly laugh to relieve tension, most scripts would benefit. And we know too, we have read thousands of spec scripts.
Now here’s the revelation. Many of these scripts were great, but they would have gone from good to great IF they managed to regularly tickle that elusive funny bone.
When: Saturday March 25th
Where: Online and Live (On demand for 1 year)
How Much: £47.99
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Make ‘em laugh. It’s where the magic lives in a screenplay – disarming, engaging, welcoming, and entertaining.
Comedy is THE essential ingredient in activating the alchemy that makes a script of ANY genre a success with readers, producers, agents, and audiences.
Writing a Horror? Comedy makes them comfortable so you can discomfort them.
Writing a Romance? Well, Romantic Comedy is a whole genre of its own.
Writing a Drama? I’ll let Phoebe Waller-Bridge handle this one. Her advice? “Disarm the audience with comedy, then punch them in the gut with drama when they least expect it.”
Comedy on screen is so universally necessary that it has endured for more than 100 years of screenwriting. By evolving and growing – while maintaining fundamental principles and strategies.
In this chapter of the Advanced Screenwriting Mastery series, screenwriters can elevate their work by learning…
- How to create relatable and lovable characters that audiences will adore (just like the characters in “The Office,” “When Harry Met Sally,” and “Parks and Recreation”). Often it’s secondary characters who do this in non-comedy genres.
- How to weaving comedy into other genres (including “The Offer,” “Silence of the Lambs,” “Pulp Fiction,” and more!) so tension is released, truths are revealed and most important, endorphins are released in readers, producers and audiences.
- How to master the art of building comedic tension and delivering a satisfying payoff (a la “M3gan”, “The Last Of Us”, “Beverly Hills Cop,” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”).
- How to find your comedic voice, and then infuse your script with your own unique comedic take on the world (just like in “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” “House Party,” and “The Mighty Boosh”).
- How to gut punch in the same moment as a laugh, the most powerful of comedy tools, often revealing devastating or hidden truths. This alone will push your script to the top of the spec script pile.
For almost all stories, it’s not about a ‘laugh a minute’.
It’s about laughter when it’s needed. Often unexpected. Sometimes delivering painful truths. For sure to relieve tension. But above all, to make your script stand head and shoulders above the spec script crowd. Sign up and elevate YOUR script now.
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You can select individual workshops above OR buy the All Genres Package for £199 below and spend the next three months immersed in story, screenwriting and taking your career to the next level.
*All workshops are available online for one year.
Online Workshops In the series included in the £199 deal
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Advanced Screenwriting Mastery Chapter Three: Comedy
Saturday 25th March
Every single script is improved with at least SOME laughter… MORE HERE
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Advanced Screenwriting Mastery Chapter Four: Thrillers
Saturday 8th April
What happens next? Master the WHY of what keeps people turning the page… MORE HERE
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*BONUS ONE… Writing The Biopic: Based on True Stories (ON DEMAND NOW)
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*BONUS TWO… Any Additional Workshop FREE (complete list below)
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Something Wicked This Way Comes… Writing The Perfect Nemesis For Your Story. Any irresistible story requires an authentic, relatable, formidable, memorable opponent. - Nemesis II: Revelations
It’s one thing to know your foe… It’s another thing to know their path, how to track them, and how to have your characters defeat them in the most deeply satisfying ways. - Writing To Get Produced
The Art, Craft and Business of the Low Budget Film Script. - Writing The Pilot
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The One Pager is an essential link in the chain that your screenplay will pass along. It will be read WAY more than your screenplay, by agents, sales agents, producers, broadcasters, directors. - Write Like Quentin Tarantino: The Ten Screenwriting Commandments
Love him or loathe him, Tarantino is an undeniable talent. His writing charms critics, seduces award givers and dazzles audiences… - Mastering The Meaning
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Learn how to take your great story, characters, universe, themes and situations and craft them into an inevitable, deeply satisfying and explosive Final Act. - Comedy Drama Masterclass: Ted Lasso
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Writing THAT Scene That EVERYONE Talks About and Producers Want. - The Non Traditional Protagonist
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