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Quote: Seefacts @ January 5, 2008, 1:55 PM

Without a doubt you'll learn more, as with anything.

Out of interest, how old were you when you wrote something that you first thought 'Hey, this is good and I believe I can make it as a writer'? Something which you're still really proud of.

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Probably around August last year, with my script Welcome To Stripe which got good feedback on this forum and from Baby Cow Productions. I co-wrote it with someone and although it still had it's faults I genuinely thought it had a great plot, some good characters and a good variety of humour. Since then I feel I've written better and with every new script I do I learn from my mistakes and it's all the better for it. When I first wrote a sitcom script a few years ago it was awful, like a copy of what I'd seen on TV, but I think what I'm doing now has my own style to it, obviously it's still influenced by my favourite comedies but I mean that's always doing to be prevalent. I think I have plot structure down very well, I'm getting better at 'proper gag' writing within the script as well as funny situations and dialogue. I think character defining is still the area I need work on because I find myself working really hard on a couple of the main characters but then the lesser characters get left behind, so yeah still lots to learn but I'm really enjoying what I'm doing.

What a tremendous response to the original thread.

3 writers have signed on and sent sketches.

It is a series of 6 thirty minute audio shows/podcasts.

I was wanting material that is filthy but hardly anyone other than myself seems capable of producing filthy yet funny stuff, so I'm now wanting material that is very angry---it could be tiny rants of rage for 30 seconds or less, or just OTT confrontational encounters between people. I'm still open to filth and this means the material can be way beyond politically incorrect if you are so moved to create such stuff. It can be racist, sexist, ageist, any -ist whatsoever. No sacred cows.

If it is something you are willing to perform in front of a microphone, all the better.

Rude songs 3 minutes or less are welcomed!

We are looking for 2 or 3 more writers, a competent recording engineer with their own computer, mics, and editing software (AND un-afraid to have us in your room/house to record the material), and a few voice actors (1 female, 2 males).

You can PM me.

This is not a run-of-the-mill show. It will stand out from all the rest. It will make a big name for itself and its participants because that is the motivation behind it.

It will not be a typical sounding comedy show/podcast. It will be more of a fast paced collage of bits & bobs & sketches & songs that are funny or very rude or very angry.

Cheers,
SvS

Skib .. it may be an idea (maybe you already mean this) to have guest contributions .. some of us have a few angry etc. bits and pieces but maybe not a whole range of material.

I have a couple of rude songs and filks which don't have a 'voice' anywhere and a few bits of angry/bitter prose, etc.

Good luck with it anyway. I may PM you with a couple of pieces to see if you think they'll fit in.

Frankie xxx

Quote: Skibbington von Skubber @ January 14, 2008, 11:23 AM

I was wanting material that is filthy but hardly anyone other than myself seems capable of producing filthy yet funny stuff,

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I think people are capable they just may not want to contribute

Good work, Skibb. Hope it all fits together soon. As to recording studio in home. These days contributors can record their sections around the UK and email them to you. All you have to do is have a sound facility to snip up the reader's lines and then cut and paste the contributions in.

Quote: David Bussell @ January 3, 2008, 3:07 PM

Thanks for the tip, Nuts, I just won two grand at Chepstow on Peppermint Shit!

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LMAO David! Just thought I'd make that known.

@ Skib,

I'd be more than willing to give it a go, but I'm not 100% on what you're looking for. Any chance of a couple of lines or so to get the gist?

Quote: SlagA @ January 14, 2008, 2:42 PM

Good work, Skibb. Hope it all fits together soon. As to recording studio in home. These days contributors can record their sections around the UK and email them to you. All you have to do is have a sound facility to snip up the reader's lines and then cut and paste the contributions in.

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Ta for the uplifting vibes. It is indeed coming together.

As for each recording their bits and emailing them: I imagine different sound levels and different background ambient noises...and some people don't understand what distortion is...they don't realize those popping sounds are annoying...they don't realize certain words have not been enunciated clearly enough...

I imagine all parts recorded in the same place with the same equipment and my presence as director/producer as being the best course of action. Actors need the ol' cattle prod sometimes to give their very best performance and that's hard to wield through email.

To Ian_W:
Send anything that is 1-5 pages long, double spaced, and is both something you would not want your mother to hear and something you'll be proud of ten years from now.

This ain't no f**k-around show for 1st drafts and half-assed energy. Send your best and be aware that I might edit it (hopefully won't have to!); might slash it into pieces; might turn it into something unrecognisable compared to the original, or I may send it back to you and suggest changes---or may find it unsuitable altogether.

In the name of quality one must be ruthless.

Quote: Skibbington von Skubber @ January 15, 2008, 1:25 PM

This ain't no f**k-around show for 1st drafts and half-assed energy. Send your best and be aware that I might edit it (hopefully won't have to!); might slash it into pieces; might turn it into something unrecognisable compared to the original, or I may send it back to you and suggest changes---or may find it unsuitable altogether.

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You're really going for the hard sell

Bless him.
He's like Chris Morris in The IT Crowd.
He'll be tossing himself out the window in a minute.

Quote: zooo @ January 15, 2008, 11:44 PM

Bless him.
He's like Chris Morris in The IT Crowd.
He'll be tossing himself out the window in a minute.

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Hopefully whoever's below is wearing a hat.

A remarkably unappetising spin on zooo's words yet I still laughed.

Quote: Skibbington von Skubber @ January 15, 2008, 1:25 PM

Send anything that is 1-5 pages long, double spaced, and is both something you would not want your mother to hear and something you'll be proud of ten years from now.

This ain't no f**k-around show for 1st drafts and half-assed energy. Send your best and be aware that I might edit it (hopefully won't have to!); might slash it into pieces; might turn it into something unrecognisable compared to the original, or I may send it back to you and suggest changes---or may find it unsuitable altogether.

In the name of quality one must be ruthless.

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Bravo!

Bump-a-roo!

I'll keep bumping this mutherf**ken thread until this team is fully assembled.

Some of you peeps reply with excitement and quick first drafts and then disappear into the ether...

Who else here at BSG is forming a writing team? Who else is forming the next MPFC or Mr Show? Is anyone even trying?

What will you have accomplished by the end of this year?
How many of your sketches will be brought to life by voice actors this year?
Or will you continue to waste your limited time on this earth writing in your underwear and sending your stuff out to disinterested parties who will not produce your work?

You will spend the rest of this year pretty much the same way you spent it last year...surfing the net; replying to threads by bored housewives; piddling little puddles of words and posting them for the yea-sayers to kiss your ass with vague compliments for three and half minutes...

Lovely...

Skib I can't help but think you attitude isn't helping.