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Comedy

Comedy

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Comedy

Norman: It's easy to take a look at the various scenes we've been looking at and say sure that applies to those clips, but what about mine? I've got a commercial, or a comedy, or a music video. Nothing like what you've shown, Norman. Well it's a good point, so let's start to examine various genres and forms, so we can see just how well everything we've learned so far. Holds up. Dessert Date is a short comedy scene in which Anil, an uncomfortable but happy 20-something, is on a first date with Dolly, a charming and friendly young woman. When Dolly leaves the table for a minute, her place is taken by the confident Amelia. Who starts munching some of Dolly's dessert until it and her coffee are almost finished. So that's our log line. Now we have to find out where our lean forward moment is. To do that, we'll do what we always do. Look at the script and do an analysis of it. So that tells us that Anil is nervous, though very happy that things have been going well so far. The entire first…

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