Each genre online class is 8 weeks long and contains all the information from the Truby live seminar. Writing exercises at the end of each lesson enable you to successfully build your story according to Hollywood standards. You review each lesson as often as you want.
Don't
miss this unique opportunity to improve your storytelling
ability and write your best script under the expert guidance
of a Truby instructor.
COMEDY GENRE
Movie comedy isn't small, it's big. Two hours long. Think of writing movie comedy as building an extension bridge. You've got to extend a line over a huge distance. That story line is what you hang your jokes on. Without a strong comic story line, even the best jokes will fall flat.
Movie comedy is about comedy structures. Comedy in general differs from serious drama in how the story is told. But even more so, comedy has at least seven different structures, each with very different story beats from the others .
This course
is among the most popular at Truby's Writers Studio because
it gives you all the techniques. We guarantee you won't
find a third of them anywhere else. This is a monster course,
covering comic characters, movie comedy structures, all the
beats of the major comedy sub-genres, comedy dialogue and
much, much more.
COMEDY
ONLINE CLASS
SYLLABUS:
•
Avoiding the inherent problems of the comedy form
• Fleshing
out your comedy premise
• 3
essential comedy forms
• The
comic view of life
•
Great comic characters and how to create them
•
How to build the comic gap
•
How a 4-point opposition makes a script funnier
• Key
story beats of the comedy form
• Structure
steps for the 7 major comedy stories, including the buddy
picture, traveling angel comedy, farce, satire and romantic
comedy
• 4
major comic themes
• Moral
arguments in comedies
•
Visual gags and line gags, setups and payoffs
• Avoiding
the fatal comedy errors when doing your rewrite
| Audio, 4.5 hours | Online Class |
| No. P209 | No. P502 |
| Price $99 | Price $449 |
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"Truby's Comedy Class was very useful. Suddenly, I'm much funnier... on the page."
Michael Endler, Back to School
"John Truby's
Movie Comedy Class is a wonderfully comprehensive course that actually
shows you how to write a funny script."
Martha Coolidge, director of Rambling
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