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
1-ON-1 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
Price $449
BONUS:
Buy the
Comedy Live 1-on-1 Class, get the Comedy Software at 1/2 price.
"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
Rose, Sex and the City, Weird Science, Sledgehammer