Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 10 2009, 11:15 AM BSTBtw the winner of the New Talent award for comedy the year I was shortlisted (have I mentioned that?) had no credits at all and had only done a bit of stand-up. Her radio show ended up being Sony nominated.
Is this really such a plus? Chris Moyles is Sony nominated.
Quote: Griff @ August 10 2009, 11:23 AM BST"And the Sony Award for best radio comedy goes to... the only candidate... Radio Four again!!"
Her show was on BBC7
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 10 2009, 11:34 AM BSTHer show was on BBC7
She sounds suspiciously foreign to me. I don't think we want to encourage her sort on our British radio.
Quote: chipolata @ August 10 2009, 11:45 AM BSTShe sounds suspiciously foreign to me. I don't think we want to encourage her sort on our British radio.
She's British.
Going back to my original post for a moment. One of the reasons for having a go at an existing sitcom is I'm not working on much else at the moment so thought I'd give it a go.
I'd love to write an episode of Peep Show. That whole internal monologue thing they do is hilarious.
I'm now getting my teeth into an episode of You Rang M'Lord, ive come up with a plot which I think works, involving all of the many characters. I think it will be a fun exercise just to keep me writing really as my other ideas are not taking off as I hoped they would.
I haven't written for my favourite show as I don't have enough time but I need to work on my plots and so I did an excercise in writing plots for existing shows. I was sort of surprised that the plots that seemed to be able to imitate the best were for the shows I least cared about. If the good life ever comes back then I think I could be plot consultant or something.
But anyway it did help me quite a lot as an excercise.
I've been thinking about this. I was interested in Marc P's ( and others ) outright dismissal of this method.
And come to the conculsion that they are most likely right.
The skill in writing a sitcom comes from developing the characters and settings and then using them to weave a plot, you need all these things to be successful.
So, write an original piece - even if its a second episode for a pilot that you have done.
End of the day, of course you can try this if you think it will be useful writing practice. Just don't expect anyone to be interested in reading it.
from my epxierience the plot excercise was helpful. It made me think more about what you have got to consider about the characters when coming up with a plot. I know this is quite obvious but it made more snese after the excercise. This will undoubtedly benefit my own writng. However I reckon if you were going to try to write a genuinely good thought out version of your favourite sitcom it would take weeks if you were going to do it right and would overall be a waste of time.