Comedy Screenplay Workshop

Duration: May 20th to June 4th (Over 3 Weekends)

12-Hours plus | 4 to 6PM IST

Fee: ₹4999

Learn the foundations and techniques of comedy-writing, the principles of humour and the secrets of why we laugh.

Week – 01: Day-01

• Has Humour-Writing Any Secrets?
• How We Go About This Workshop
• Humour Vs Comedy?
• Analysing Humour
• A Brief Comic History
• Body Language
• Humour for the Visual Medium

Week – 01: Day-02

• Why we Laugh?
• Reasons for Laughter
• The Science of Humour
• The Benefits of Humour Writing
• A Map to Success as Humourist
• Premise and Character
• Characters in Screen Comedy
• Exercises

Week – 02: Day-01

• Six Essentials of Humour
• Target Humour
• Hostility
• Exaggeration
• Emotion
• Surprise
• Exercises

Week – 02: Day-02

• Plotting and Comedic Scenes
• Fish out of Water
• Structuring Comedy Movie
• The Comic World
• The Goal
• The Fun & Games OR Brave New World
• Testing and Testing
• Heart, Love, Loss
• Transformation and Epiphany
• Rant, Banter, Slapstick and
• Montage in Scene

Week – 03: Day-01

• Humour Writing Techniques
• Play of Words
• Reverses
• Paired Elements
• Triples
• How Funny, Foul Language?

Week – 03: Day-02

• Performative Comedy
• Writing the Grammar of the Shot
• Gags Vs Narrative
• Writing the Comedian Comedy
• Dark Comedy and Farce
• Writing for Sitcoms
• Selling Comedy