Are You Tone Deaf?
with Phil Parker – 7th May RADA, London

How to make your screenplay funnier, more dramatic or just tragic!  With the author of The Art and Science of Screenwriting.

Phil Parker writes: “What I will be doing is breaking down the structure and development of feature films such as Lost in Translation, The Full Monty, Men in Black and Shakespeare in Love, in terms of their dramatic, comedic, and tragic elements.  This will illustrate how the three main tonal options work at five different levels within a screenplay and ultimately for an audience.  It will explain the difference between a romantic comedy and a comic romance, and why comedy is not a genre.”
 

Biography

Phil Parker is the author of The Art and Science of Screenwriting, Intellect Books 2001. He is also a Director of pH Screenplay, an independent training and screenplay development company; consultant for UK’s national film and television training body, Skillset; creator of Training the Trainers, a programme for the UK Film Council’s Training Fund to train over 60 tutors in continuing education.

Feature films in development include Biradri – The Brotherhood w. Amjum  Malik; Sex Diary w. Toby Tobias p. Marcelo Anciano; The Inheritance w. David Gilhooly d. Thadeus O’Sullivan; Subterraneo w. Toby Tobias p. Phil Hunt/Greg Cruttwell. Phil is also Director/Head of Development at Magic Shadow Productions Independent production company set up with Suran Goonatilake and Badri Nathan. He teaches widely throughout the UK and Europe and was responsible for setting up the MA in Screenwriting at the LCC (previously the London College of Printing).

Phil Parker on Personal Drama