"Writing Comedy For Stage And Screen" A workshop held by BBC's Diane Messias

13th August 2016, 11am - 6pm & 14th August 2016, 11am - 6pm

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
This two-day workshop is centered on learning how to approach comedy writing for both TV and film, specifically: what makes a viable idea, why some ideas work and others don't, how your choices impact on the whole of the production, the importance of structure, what characters does your story need, what makes them real, why you need sub-plots and what they can do for you, how to create realistic, idiosyncratic dialogue for each character, what dialogue needs to do and how to write it, and where the jokes come from!

ABOUT THE TUTOR:
Diane Messias has enjoyed a career at the highest echelon of professional comedy for the past 30 years. A former BBC Comedy Producer/Director - her credits include 'One Foot In The Grave', 'The News Quiz' and 'Week Ending' - Diane has written for and worked with many of the country's top household names: Harry Hill, Alistair McGowan, Ian Hislop, Paul Merton, Richard Wilson, Andrew Sachs, Rory Bremner, Alan Coren... With extensive experience as a writer, script editor, performer, director, producer and broadcaster, Diane also works as a script consultant at ScriptWhizz.com and is on Twitter.

For more info and to book tickets, please visit this site: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-comedy-for-stage-and-screen-tickets-25949420415?utm_term=eventname_text

There are limited places on this workshop, so if you wish to participate in this workshop, but it's sold out, then you can email the Arts Training Company at info@artstrainingcompany.com with the words "Writing Comedy For Stage And Screen - Waiting List" in the subject line.