Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th March 2012
10.30am - 4.30pm (registration 10.15am)
Tutors: Paul Bassett Davies and Fenella Greenfield
Lectures about writing are like poems about swimming: they may be inspiring but they don't improve your technique.
The only way to learn how to write is by writing.
In this weekend workshop you'll participate in intensive, practical exercises that are designed todevelop the basic skills you need to make your material funny in any format or medium you're writing for: film, television, radio, theatre, stand-up, or print.
Whether you're a complete beginner or rusty and needing a work-out, by the end of this weekend you'll have the confidence and the tools to up the humour in your scripts.
Working on your own, in pairs and in groups, you'll:
- write gags, quickies and sketches;
- create and develop comic characters;
- discover your own unique comic persona and write a stand-up monologue;
- write the outline for the pilot episode of your own original sitcom;
- and plunder the best source of comedy material you'll ever find - your own sad, lonely life.
Bring pencils, notebooks and a list of everything you hate about your friends and family.
