Story ideas and my character

My Character

My character is called Dave and he is an alcoholic. I have loosely based this person on myself as I like to drink but going to over play it. There have been a few alcoholic comics like All Murray the Pub landlord and Father Jack in Father Ted. These sort of characters are never the lead roles as they would become boring a repetitive after a while that’s why they make good sidekicks or funny back ground stories. But Men behaving badly show both roles as drunks and always drinking heavily and getting up to stupid things. Although this doesn’t sound good on paper but when put on video its funny to see. So my character would be based on Martin Clunes who plays Gary in Men behaving badly. He works in a small office and has an uneventful life and lives with Tony who both drink and well behave badly. This is what I do to in my time when I go out as I usually get in stupid situations.

Story

The story is based around 4 people working in a Production company working on a Sci-Fi series. 4 guys with totally different back grounds, one is a Stoner (Steve) who never seems with but really good at modelling but doesn’t know he isn’t getting paid. Al is the boss and is arrogant, condescending and basically a arse hole and he knows he isn’t paying Steve as he feels doesn’t deserve it. Jeff is the nervous Nerd, not too sure about where the World of war craft finishes and the real world starts. He hates shouting and confrontations and goes mad when these things happen and when he goes out only drinks milk. The last one is Dave the alcoholic who gets drunk where ever he is and keeps getting into stupid situations at work and well everywhere he goes. Every episode sees the team get up to stupid things and tries to get the work done. As they are all geeks in their own sense they are not welcomed by the outside world and constantly arguing.  

The filming will look like the office but with all the humour as the IT crowd, the channel we would see this on would be channel 4 as they have a lot of dark and rude humour on there like the Inbetweeners and MisFits. After watching the IT crowd I think the target audience is 15+ as this would cover a larger audience plus giving us the range of prime time TV. Al of the comedy series are about 20 minutes long as any longer would get boring and having it this long would keep it fresh and would enable us to cover a few weeks. Most of the scenes will be impraved as this would better than written down script as it would give the characters freedom to bounce off each other. There wil be a direction and the characters are given situations to get through and its then left to the actors to play around and be themselves.

Story Ideas

Episode 1. F’ing Stoners

This would be the first episode where we would meet the crowd for the first time. The first scene would be Steve coming through the fronts doors of the office in a cloud of smoke wearing a black hoodie and the imperial march song playing in the back ground on the stereo. As the camera pans up we see Steve pull back the hoodie to reveal himself and then cut to the boss Al who comes out with the catch phrase “Fucking Stoners!!”. This episode sees Steve and the gang trying a work night out but as some of them have curfews set by their mothers they have to have it during the day.

Episode 2 Dave sobers up

In this episode Dave wakes up in an alley with is phone telling him its 1985 as he received a txt with this date on. After spending half the day thinking he had gone back in time he decides to try and sober up.

Episode 3 Steve gets paid

Steve goes to his dealer to get his usual but realises that he has no money and after a near mental breakdown due to lack of weed Steve sees the world for real for the time. After doing his job right for the first time Al has no choice but to pay him which leads Steve a hard choice on how to spend the money.

Episode 4 World of Moo Craft

Jeff wakes up to go to work to find that his mum has gone on holiday for a week and leaves him in charge of getting the groceries. Not entirely sure where of where to get his milk fix outside of his house and way from his computer he unwittingly takes Steve with him. They both think that the best way to get milk is at the source!!