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Zusatztext Chris Head’s book does something very important, by showing how comedy can be built into long and satisfying stories. He offers clear and helpful advice which will be particularly useful for budding sitcom writers, but also relates to other forms like stand-up and improvised comedy. I know I’ll be recommending this to my students. Informationen zum Autor Chris Head is a comedy director, teacher and script-editor. He has taught stand-up, sketch and sitcom for twenty years and teaches on the BA Comedy Degree at Bath Spa University. Chris recently script-edited BBC Radio and Channel 4 sitcom scripts, a comedy short film that was a global hit, and a sell-out comedy play seen at Assembly in Edinburgh and Soho Theatre in London (that he also directed). His stand-up directing work has been seen at Soho and Bloomsbury Theatres, Pleasance, Assembly and Underbelly in Edinburgh, and internationally. Vorwort A practical guide to interdisciplinary comic techniques, offering advice, skills and insights for today's comedy performer and writer working across increasingly varied mediums. Zusammenfassung This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online.Referencing a broad range of comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, spanning several decades and including material on contemporary internet sketches, it offers all kinds of useful advice on creating comic narratives for stage and screen: using life experience as raw material; constructing comedy worlds; creating comic characters, their relationships and interactions; structuring sketches, scenes and routines; and developing and plotting stories.The book’s interviewees, from the UK and the USA, feature stand-ups, sketch comics, improvisers and TV comedy producers, and include Steve Kaplan , Hollywood comedy guru and author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy, Will Hines teacher and improviser from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Lucy Lumsden TV producer and former Controller of Comedy Commissioning for BBC.Written by “the ideal person to nurture new talent” (The Guardian), Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage & Screen includes material you won’t find anywhere else and is a stimulating resource for comedy students and their teachers, with a range and a depth that will be appreciated by even the most eclectic and multi-hyphenated writers and performers. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPART 1: INSPIRATIONChapter 1: The Comedy of Your LifeChapter 2: People WatchingChapter 3: Write what you Know and Love (or Hate)PART 2: ACTIONChapter 4: Games & WorldsChapter 5: SREP: Set-up, Reveal, Escalation, PayoffChapter 6: Character Behaviour & AwarenessChapter 7: ‘What if?’ in Online Comedy & BeyondPART 3: STORYChapter 8: Bosses, Strivers & FoolsChapter 9: Characters Driving the NarrativeChapter 10: Story StructureIndex...
