Synopses & Reviews
This book takes you into the world of Comedy and helps you discover what makes us laugh, and how you can craft better comedy. Using concise examples from our comedy masters from Preston Sturges to the Farrelly Brothers, from Duck Soup to Shrek, Voytilla and Petri show you how to apply the "tenets of laughter" to your comedy writing. With easy-to-use guidelines, learn the successful mechanics and characteristics of various comic story forms (including farce, the gender-bender, fish-out-of-water, parody, ensemble comedy, military comedy, sports comedy and more.)
Synopsis
This book takes you into the world of comedy and helps you discover what makes us laugh, and how can you craft better comedy. With easy-to-use guidelines, learn the successful mechanics and characteristics of various comic story forms.
Synopsis
A how to guide to Writing Comedy Films. Learn the successful mechanics and characteristics of various comic story forms including farce, the gender-bender, fish-out-of-water, parody, ensemble comedy, military comedy, sports comedy and more.
About the Author
Voytilla is a writer, script consultant, and teacher of acting and screenwriting.
Table of Contents
Sit down, shut up, and split a gut -- Comic perspective: how to develop a comic voice -- How comedy works: the physics of funny -- The tenets of laughter -- Comedy is conflict and collision -- Comedy is conviction -- Comedy is deception -- Comedy is wish-fulfillment and worst fear -- Comedy is truth -- Comedy is chaos and anarchy -- Comedy and children -- Comic stories and their structures -- Fish-out-of-water -- Romantic comedy -- The sports comedy -- The crime/caper comedy -- The military comedy -- The teen/coming-of-age comedy -- The ensemble comedy -- Farce -- Black comedy -- Satire, parody and mockumentary -- The end of the laughter? -- Appendix A: the stages of the hero's journey -- Appendix B: AFI's 100 years... 100 laughs -- Appendix C: Top ten comedies from the past five years.