![]() It is ideal for students of screenwriting and aspiring comedy screenwriters. Finally, there is also practical career guidance for marketing this just-completed script and breaking into the industry with advice on various topics such as the value of networking as well as gaining representation in the competitive Hollywood jungle. Utilizing his experience in Hollywood's sitcom trenches, the author offers real-world advice on such topics as building the comedy pilot "world," creating memorable comic characters, sound sitcom structure, and the importance of crafting an emotional through line in a comedy pilot. If you’re thinking of filming it, ask yourself if you’re writing a screenplay, or a pilot for a tv show, or a web series, or even a filmed sketch. One of the first things you’ll need to consider is the format your comedy will take. Author Manny Basanese breaks down the comedy pilot writing process from what may be perceived as an overwhelming, time-consuming mission into a series of much more manageable, smaller steps (from logline to outline to 1st, 2nd and polished draft). Writing, as an art form, should belong to everyone. Incorporating both the history of TV comedy as well as its current evolving state in this age of the dramedy and an ever-increasing variety of broadcast and streaming platforms, the book will serve as a guide for the fledgling sitcom scribe. ![]() Practical and accessible, the book presents a step-by-step guide focusing on the key elements of the process. This workshop will take place at the QWF Office (RAtwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec) with up to 2 virtual spots for participants who are unable to attend in-person.Navigating through the challenging process of writing a comedy pilot, this book will help screenwriters to create an original script for television. Ideas will be workshopped in groups as well as one-on-one with the workshop leader and fellow participants. Phil Kellard, television writer UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor and author of Chapter 7 in Inside the Room: Writing Television with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program talks. Spencer Robinson is a literary manager at Art/Work Entertainment who has been selling and staffing his comedy clients on the industrys leading series for years, including shows on Amazon, HBO Max and Jason Batemans. These intimate sessions will involve a mixture of group discussion, critical analysis of TV pilots and shows, and workshopping participants’ own ideas with the goal of completing their own TV pilot. Let us give you the guidance to make your comedy pilot as good as it can be and help you springboard your writing career.
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