AWG WA EVENT: Tim Ferguson's Narrative Comedy Short Course

19 February, 2014

Presented by Wit Large in association with the Australian Writers' Guild, this intensive weekend course in Perth offers insights for writers to expand their skills base into narrative comedy for television and film, focusing on the principles of jokes and narrative humour. These principles are ancient, fixed and universally applied through all good 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.Attendees will be shown how to construct a comedy film or TV show, making choices in terms of theme, sub-genre, character, structure, morality, style and tone. The course concludes with tips for formulating treatments or series bibles and pitching concepts to the film or television markets.The course operates by way of lectures, script analysis and the viewing of narrative comedies. Some time will also be devoted to exercises and workshopping. When: 10.00am – 5.00pm Sat 31 May & Sun 1 June 2014Where: AWG, First Floor 266 William St Northbridge PerthCost: $420 AWG members $294Bookings: Wit LargeAWG financial members discount code: ‘Aristotle’ Inquiries: Alan Payne AWG WA: wa@awg.com.au Tim Ferguson is a comedian, producer and screenwriter. Tim wrote the bestselling comedy writing manual The Cheeky Monkey – Writing Narrative Comedy (Currency Press). He has made dozens of comedy and entertainment TV shows. One of the world’s leading narrative comedy teachers, Tim lectures in comedy and screenwriting at RMIT University, AFTRS, VCA, Sydney University and Open Channel Media.