LippyAlison
Saturday 26th April 2014 6:20pm [Edited]
London
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So here are the details for how to submit for episode 6. Let's start with the deadlines;
Sketches:
Wednesday 7th May - Deadline for first submission
[Although please do send them sooner if you can!]
Thursday 15th May - the latest one of the Script Editors will contact you about re-writes
Monday 19th May - Deadline for re-writes
One-Liners:
Monday 19th May - Deadline for all one-liners
[We may ask for one-liners via twitter after this date so please keep an eye on our account @LiveFromKI ]
How to submit
For this episode of Kirrin Island please e-mail your sketches and one-liners to:
LiveFromKirrinIsland@gmail.com
Each person can submit up to two sketches for the show. You can submit those two sketches either on one or two e-mails.
But please just send us your two best sketches.
Send each sketch as a separate document attached to an email with the title of the document being your name followed by the name of the sketch.
For example: Clem Fandango - Ringo's Bingo.doc
For sketches please ensure there is a header on each page that includes:
- Your name
- The title of your sketch
- Your e-mail address
In terms of formatting sketches, please format them in a similar manner to BBC radio sketch show. An example template (that can be copied) on Google Docs can be seen here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zYOxGr9-hwKPfkmci9wXOXIohGC2NgKapIsZQfwBQL0/edit
If you can use this format, it would be really helpful as you won't believe the trouble it takes to cut and paste everything into a single show script late into the night!
Each person can submit up to an A4 page of one-liners. Please break your one-liners up into the three sections - Intros, Kwitter & Off The Island News as appropriate.
Send all your one-liners in one document attached to an e-mail. The title of the document being your name followed by 'OneLiners'
For example: Joey Switzerland - One Liners.doc
Please ensure that there is a header on your one-liner page that includes:
- Your name
- Your e-mail address
You can submit documents in either .doc or .docx format (as these are easier to edit). Please avoid .pdf as these are a pain, as are .rtf documents. Again, please make sure your name and e-mail address is on your documents so we know who to credit. If we can't credit you we can't use your work!
Feedback & Re-writes
We would very much like to provide feedback to every writer who submits sketches. Our team has had multiple credits for Newsjack & many other BBC Radio shows and includes commissioned writers for these shows. So hopefully our feedback will be useful!
Our aim is for this episode that if you submit one or two sketches we'll provide some feedback on your writing, what we like about it and what we think could be improved. We should also say that given we all have day jobs if we're suddenly swamped with hundreds of entries we may have to renege on that promise. Please don't hate us if that happens but we'll try, as far as possible, to let you know what we think of your sketches. Due to time constraints, the feedback collation happens after the whole recording process is complete, so you will be very unlikely to receive any feedback before the show is completed.
Given the number of one-liners we receive we won't be providing feedback on them and we'd recommend the BCG Critique Forum if you'd like some feedback on those.
If we like your sketch, or at least something about your sketch, you will be asked to re-write it with advice from the script eds, in order to give you the best chance of a credit with words that you wrote. It will in all likelihood be rewritten again in our writers' room (you will still be credited). However, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to give us very little to do bar laugh. That is the ideal situation for us!
Deadlines are exceptionally tight so if we ask you to re-write a sketch you'll need to get it back to us in a day or so. If that's not possible please say and our team of writers will look at in.
Please note that not being asked for a re-write does not mean your stuff isn't in consideration for the show and, conversely, being asked for a re-write doesn't guarantee we'll use it. But we'd like to get you involved as much as possible in getting your sketch ready for the final show.
Topics to cover
Please check back here to see if there are any specific topics we need covered or which ones we feel we've already received good material on.
This episode of Kirrin Island will have a 'current' air to it, rather than 'topical', to increase the longevity of the podcast. Think 'zeitgeisty' (whatever that really means). This will avoid them getting stale quickly and, as we are now able to animate a few of the more successful sketches, there is a chance that your sketch may be animated and posted to YouTube.
There are a bunch of regular characters we use, but these are not mandatory. We would love more recurring female characters.
If you can think of a new character great, just put them in a sketch to show us it can work.
One-liners.
We use three formats for these:
The first is for the show intro. We have a host who welcomes people to the Island each episode and in it they describe recent events there. Remember these need to be about Kirrin Island, although the stories may sound very familiar:
"At Kirrin Island Airport body scanners have been scrapped. Now if we want to see pictures of unsuspecting holidaymakers naked we'll have to look in French Magazines"
The second is a stream of comments from the island Kwitter social media site. It's great if these 'Kweets' have an (in)appropriate #hashtag at the end that gets an extra laugh. The best ones reflect the type of person/character saying them rather than just being a straight-up gag so always flag up what type of person is saying them if it matters.
"I don't actually think the world is going to end next Friday, but if anyone knows any girls who do ... "
The third is Off The Island news. What do the characters of Kirrin Island make of world events?
"Nick Ross has made a 34m profit from his house. I suppose it must have gone through many reconstructions."
The cast.
Assume our cast will be 2 males and 2 females. We may be able to squeeze in more parts but four will be the limit for most sketches. Our cast can do most accents and some impressions: Schwarzenegger, Prince Phillip, Morgan Freeman, Elvis and who knows who else. However we can't guarantee a full range so better to ask us first or instead write your sketch using Kirrin Island inhabitants.
SKETCHES
Everything you need to know about impressing us with your sketch is here:
http://kirrinislandpodcast.com/wiring/script-ed-notes/
