Comedy Screenwriting Course

Whether you're an aspiring screenwriter or a seasoned storyteller looking to add humour to your work, this online course offers the perfect environment to hone your skills and develop your unique comedic voice.Over six weeks, you'll learn the ins and outs of comedy screenwriting including:

• Understand the principles of creating comic characters
• Apply the techniques needed to create comedy character conflicts
• Write jokes and narrative gags and create comedy stories, identifying and establishing comedy story themes
• Develop comedy character ensembles and work with comedy character archetypes
• Understand the different formats and challenges of writing web series, sketches, sitcoms and comedy features
• Package and sell your specific comedy concept

The course structure of this comedy screenwriting course will follow:Week 1: Creating comedy charactersDiscover simple techniques for creating or improving your comedy characters. Ironies, exaggeration, limited perspective - everything you need to know to make your characters funny.Week 2: Create comedy character teamsComedy needs conflict! This class will show you techniques for combining comedy characters to maximise conflict impact. Ideal for sitcom writing, where you need the conflicts to erupt every episode!Week 3: Comedy story structuresComedies differ from drama stories. Discover how to apply the best Comedy storytelling techniques. So your stories start funny and stay funny.Week 4: How to write Comedy Movies, Sitcom, Plays, Web-series, SketchComedy comes in different forms. Discover the principles for building your ideas for Film, TV and the web.Week 5: Build funny dialogue and jokesNew techniques for spicing your dialogue with humour. There are simple insights (wordplay, misinterpretations, reversals) that will get your audiences, laughing!Week 6: Pitch your comedy ideasYou’ve done all the hard work building your comedy scripts. Now, we’ll explore the ways to sell them to the world.Join online via Zoom and bring your ideas to life with professional comedian and screenwriter, Tim Ferguson. Read more details