Big Comedy Conference video: Plotting
Creating characters is all well and good, but you're also going to need challenges for them to face and stories to follow. This video recorded at April's Big Comedy Conference 2023 focuses on the intricacies of plotting and structure, and making sure you've got all the right beats and pacing in your narrative scripts to not leave your audience feeling short-changed.
Speaker biographies
Lucy Lumsden (host)
Lucy is MD of Yellow Door Productions, recent shows include Ruby Speaking with Jayde Adams, The Cockfields written by Joe Wilkinson and David Earl and The Mysterious Case Of Agatha Christie starring Anna Maxwell Martin. Prior to setting up her own company, Lucy was Head of Comedy at Sky for 6 years, commissioning over 60 series. Before Sky she was Controller of Comedy Commissioning for BBC for 4 years.
Adam is an author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, won numerous awards, and sold over three million copies. Adam is also one of the country's best selling children's authors, writing Kay's Anatomy, the fastest selling kids' non fiction book of the decade. Adam's awards for TV writing include the Writers Guild award for Best Drama.
Daniel is the creator, writer, and star of Timewasters, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Scripted Comedy, and won the 2018 Royal Television Society award for Best Breakthrough. In 2018, he was announced as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. Daniel is currently developing Boarders, an original 6x45 minute comedy drama for BBC Three that shoots later this year, as well as projects for BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
Daniel has been writing TV comedy for adults and children for twenty years, including episodes of Two Pints Of Lager, My Parents Are Aliens, Mongrels and Horrible Histories. He co-writes Not Going Out with Lee Mack and most recently created and wrote three series of Code 404 for Sky.
Brona is a TV comedy writer and actor, who has written over 100 episodes of broadcast TV; this includes sketch shows, panel shows, award shows, quiz shows, stand-up shows and sitcoms. Writing credits for TV include Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Spitting Image, Tracey Ullman's Show, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, The Last Leg, the BAFTA TV Awards, the BATFA Film Awards, Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule, Comic Relief, Dave Gorman's Modern Life Is Goodish, and many more. Brona is currently working on a film with Aardman, and writing the book for a new West End musical.
