Creating Narrative Comedy Workshop with Tim Ferguson

After the success and popularity of the last workshop, AWG is again running the Creating Narrative Comedy course with Tim Ferguson. This course explores the principles of creating and writing narrative comedy for television and film. Participants will be shown how to construct a sitcom or narrative comedy from the ground up, making choices in terms of theme, sub-genre, character, structure, morality, style and tone. Applications close Monday May 10, 2010

The course focuses upon the principles of jokes and narrative humour. These ancient principles are universally applied through all comedies. Participants are presented with processes and principles for devising comic conflict, metaphors, juxtapositions, reversals, story structures, knowledge differentials, pathos, subtext and the rhythms of comic dialogue. The course operates by way of lectures, script analysis and the viewing of narrative comedies. Some class time will also be devoted to exercises and workshopping. The course concludes with tips for formulating series bibles and pitching concepts to the film or television markets.

Full course details and cost can be found at Screenwest.