Hey everyone
Just a quick post to keep everybody up to date with what's going on! So, we all came up with the idea of having four characters based in an office, the typical cool guy, loser, loved up guy and dumb guy, and we'd create comedy around these characters. Then Theo had an idea involving two friends attending a fancy dress party, where one of them has to make an important speech. He asks the other guy to dress up as his character just in case he isn't back, and leaves him with the speech. He goes away. The other character basically gets really drunk and makes a mess of the speech, and experiences other obstacles such as a girl coming onto him (thinking it's his friend). I'll let Theo explain his idea in more detail.
So after our meeting with Annie, where we explained these two ideas, she suggested merging them together to form one. So that's what we've done! This is the general outline in very brief note form:
Four characters in an office; loser guy, cool guy, loved up guy, stupid guy.
They are in the marketing department, who are rivals with the sales department - loved up guy fancies one of the birds in the sales department and constantly tries to suck up to her, making him the target of abuse from the marketing lads.
The loser guy is constantly being made fun of by the cool guy.
The whole thing is building up to the office fancy dress party, where the loser guy must make a speech, perhaps hoping to impress the boss for a job promotion or something? - we see him planning his speech throughout, whilst the others take the piss, and see how important it is to him.
When it comes to the party the loser guy gets called away - the loved up guy is busy stalking to sales girl and there's no way he's leaving it with the cool guy, he knows he'll show him up! So his only remaining option is the stupid guy. He gives him his costume and his speech and leaves.
Unsurprisingly, the stupid guy has too much to drink and messes it up! Maybe he could get hold of the wrong piece of paper and read out something incredibly crude or embarrassing?
We thought for the ending, that after years of the cool guy taking the piss out of the loser guy, we find out that the loser guy has been shagging the cool guy's girlfriend. And that's why he left the party!
Sorry for the lack of detail in this guys, really pushed for time at the moment!
We've decided to leave Theo to get on with developing the script on his own for a few days, plus we have studio/location shoots to be getting on with. So the next group meeting will be at 12.00pm on Monday 25th October at our house, 212 Ecclesall Road.
We can all get to know the characters more here, and throw in ideas for the script! If anybody has any ideas for the characters or the script or anything at all, no matter how big or small, write them on the blog and bring them with you to the meeting!
Hope everybody is well, see you then.
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