What is the title of your proposed script?
at this moment in time i have no idea of what i would like to call my script
I would like to have my script and show in the style of "bored to death" obviously this would be pretty hard as the humor and style is going to be hard to remake this on a smaller level,
I plan on having my script made into a series, I feel this would be best.
well in the real world the intention of my product would be to make money, being as i am in college i would only be doing this for my BTEC media diploma.
but i hope to make people want to laugh more from my narrative
No my production is not high concept (as in its an idea thats been used in a lot of T.V. programmes) but at the moment i am in a type of "conceptual" stage.
I hope to display my characters as reserved intelligent individuals living on their own in a built up area (preferably a big city e.g. Norwich or London along the lines of that anyway)
my intended audience is the higher end of the teenage bracket. 18-20's
my main characters I hope are all male, (3 main characters) two being friends from highschool, and one being their boss at work. I don't know what to call them all yet, but I do know I want the two friends to be 20-30 and the Boss to be 50-55 an older male with grey hair but still as childish as the other two, and being brought up from a wealthier background than the other two characters.
Ted Danson (boss - Ted Danson) WHY?
Jason Schwartzman (protagonist - Vaughn Ames) WHY? WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT THEM?
Zac Galifinakis (friend - Ray Hansen
These three actors have all inspired me to make this script, they all play in an existing T.V. show called Bored To Death, I hope to base my script on this by making a similar style script.
There are some requirements for the actors, this only being the ages they are e.g. The Boss being an older age than the other two other than that there are no requirements.
Synopsis
In a prison cell in Norwich, after the main character (Jason) being arrested for moonlighting as a private detective and breaking up a botched up kidnapping, his boss eventually bails him out and then asks him what happened we then dive into a story about how he got arrested.
We start his story in his apartment arguing with his girlfriend who then proceeds to leave him. after his constant drinking of wine, smoking of marijuana, and his lax attitude. after this he decides he should try to sort his life out and stop drinking and smoking, with little help from his friends he needs another way to keep his mind off of his relationship issues, he then makes an advert on a webpage for a private detective despite his lack of common sense and a legal investigator licsence.
after a few hours our protagonist recieves a bundle of messeges asking for help, he imediatley contacts one of the numbers shown on the monitor of his computer, after a phone call we learn that a young woman is afriad that her boyfriend that she lives with has been missing for 5 days, she promtly gives Vaughn a picture of her boyfriend and his name "Marcellus Brown"
we then see our protagonist walking down a wet St Benedicts Street In Norwich to a small café called 'The Bicycle Shop' where he is to meet his client, we see Mr. Ames and a young lady across the table Mr Ames stits down at, she introduces herself as Synthia a sad and worried young girlfriend, she tells Vaughn of a small hotel that he has supposedly holed himself up in, cut too a scene of Vaughn standing underneath a street light in a little allyway leading to a bin compound smoking a cigarette and slightly frowning, he then throws his cigarette onto the road infront of him and confidently strides into the hotel and asks if he has any one signed in under the name "Marcellus" the clerck at this tiny hotel in one of the neon filled nooks of Norwich gives Vaughn a dirty look and sighs "can't do mate, sorry"
Write a 300 word synopsis detailing the beginning, middle and end of you proposed narrative. Focus mainly on the central narrative but do also mention any other strands if necessary.
Sam,
ReplyDeleteSynopsis:
Write in prose, as if the reader is reading a novel. Ensure that you use capital letters where they should appear, for example, after full stops. Clarify that he wants to become a PI rather than hire one. Also, is it Vaughn or Jason?
I would like to know more about him, e.g., is he good at what he does or is he incapable? Is he friendly or disgruntled? etc.
How does the episode end? Mention the twist about Marcellus' character and say how Vaughn celebrates/takes the victory of solving the case. His state of mind at the end should as important as whether or not the case is solved.