Hi there I am currently writing a mockumentary style sitcom set in a job centre about the workers and various visitors, I can't however seem to put what I want onto the page. Think I'm suffering from writers block but havnt even started yet. Can someone help me please?,. Thanks 
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Can you hear the characters speaking in your head? Try putting some of this down then see if you can build round it.
I'll try that if I can manage to, at the moment though I can't even think 
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all I've put so far is...
EXT. THE JOB CENTRE MANAGER IAN MORGAN GETS OUT OF HIS CAR TO OPEN THE CENTRE. WALKING TOWARDS THE FRONT DOORS ALL CONFIDENT WITH A SPRING IN HIS STEP.
i can't seem to write anymore.
Alternatively, describe the layout of your first scene - who's there, where are they sitting/standing.? Who speaks first? Why? What do they say? Just throw it all down - you can refine later.
Our posts crossed!
So does he get the door open? Is anybody already inside? Who? What are they doing/saying?
Also maybe you need to plan structure - beginning, middle, end with peaks and troughs throughout? What do you see happening in 'Part' 1?
I guess I'm gonna leave it for tonight and get back to it tommorow, thanks for the help, I'll ensure that I take everything in mind what you've said. Again many thanks , youve been a great help .
Quote: Baz Magnum @ February 26 2011, 8:27 PM GMTHi there I am currently writing a mockumentary style sitcom set in a job centre about the workers and various visitors, I can't however seem to put what I want onto the page. Think I'm suffering from writers block but havnt even started yet. Can someone help me please?,. Thanks
You could always visit it for inspiration. There's carers advisors, disability advisors, fraud officers, CV people, potential employers and so on.
Yes, sadly I know a lot about the workings of a Job Centre...
(By the way I don't know about the person running a Job Centre having a spring in his step, but maybe that's the joke.)
thats sounds like a good idea to add other wokers like careers advisors and so on, I put the manager with a spring in his step as his way of playing to the camera. Would love to hear more from you ifthat's ok with you
Quote: Baz Magnum @ February 26 2011, 9:23 PM GMTI'll try that if I can manage to, at the moment though I can't even think
all I've put so far is...
EXT. THE JOB CENTRE MANAGER IAN MORGAN GETS OUT OF HIS CAR TO OPEN THE CENTRE. WALKING TOWARDS THE FRONT DOORS ALL CONFIDENT WITH A SPRING IN HIS STEP.
i can't seem to write anymore.
First off what you want to do is learn how to write in script format. Not only will you (hopefully) find it interesting but seeing examples and reading real scripts will give you a boost of inspiration.
Another thing to think about is 'character'. It's all well deciding where to set the 'sit'com first but your main priority should be the people it is based around. "Ian Morgan" should already have some distinguishable character traits, as you must have pictured a man called "Ian Morgan" walking into a "jobcentre" as the "manager" with a "spring in his step".
If you're lazy like me. And you're really stuck. Just write the name Ian Morgan and list 3 character traits. This will help you define his place within the sitcom. He's the boss, but is he a good boss or a bad one? Is he nice or a bit of a twat? Does he like his job? Etc.
And then you can draw other inspiration from memories of actually using the job centre yourself. If you've never been in one, I suggest you avoid the subject because it's often obvious in writing or on television when someone portrays something who has no actual experience of it. But I suppose the job centre is an office environment so any experience within that field could help. Think of the type of characters that inhabit the office space. There are good workers, bad ones, annoying ones, etc.
I suppose the advantage of setting it in the job centre is that you could gather a good collection of reoccurring job-seeking characters as they appear to "sign on" every week.
When you've figured all this out, and know your characters, you will hopefully find that they can speak for themselves. For example, if you were to imagine a character from your favourite sitcom, you could probably create an original scene for them yourself. Because you would know how they would react.
I already know Ian Morgan is the boss, so I would expect some sort of authority from him, whether it was authentic or not we know he already has a place and recognize how he may relate to the rest of the cast.
See you're one step there already.
i've wrote a bit more now, was doing it last night before I read what you put and now I've read your advice, you have hit the nail on the head must start to work on my character more it just seems that I try and rush certain things and try to finish it. Maybe I should sped more timje on character than I usually do. Thanks, I'll put what I've done so far on the critique section so you can have a read.
Hi Baz,
How about...
EXT. THE JOB CENTRE MANAGER IAN MORGAN GETS OUT OF HIS CAR TO OPEN THE CENTRE. WALKING TOWARDS THE FRONT DOORS ALL CONFIDENT WITH A SPRING IN HIS STEP.
IAN MORGAN:
Hello door!
HE OPENS THE DOOR AND SKIPS TOWARDS THE FRONT DESK WHERE SANDRA SITS.
SANDRA
Your wife called...
IAN MORGAN
Oh no, I wish SHE would make ME redundant!
Don't mean to tread on your toes, I just love writing at the mo!
*cue canned laughter
Hehe that's ok mate no probs, any feedback or input is very much welcome, ive actually wrote some the other day and posted it in the critique section if you want to have a read
oh no can't be having canned laughter, comedy should let the viewer find the joke themselves not to be told when to laugh, I find that tedious
he could be a drunkard who has trouble parking his car? see the famous sex pistols scene when they all got out of the car and were stoned after they got fired from a&m records. staggering around. (i can't find it on YouTube.)
he could be somewhat of a rebel perhaps with a punk t shirt under his suit? he's so drunk he has trouble getting the key in the door... he don't like his job yet he is trying to get everybody else to work! while trying to sell the idea of work he starts agreeing "that perhaps that's a crap job. oh don't do it. that's a waste of time."
comedy could come from a character like the one in bread who is always cheating the system. this guy could always trying to get out of work... 
You are jumping in the deep end, trying to run before you walk (to mix a few metaphors).
Before you start writing anything like a script you should know your characters and locations as thoroughly as you knew your fellow pupils at school and your work colleagues at work. And you should know all the locations as thoroughly as if you had photographed them or built them yourself.
Then write an outline of your story or first episode of your sitcom series; this is called a treatment. Then break that outline down into the scenes that you will need in order to make the audience visualize that story.
Download the following template: http://www.datahighways.net/dhl/downloads/w2000/Cards.PDF
Which is the Script Development Cards template from my Scriptwriters' Toolkit.
Print out as many cards as you need, there's a guide to how many on the first sheet. Then write out one card for each character, each location and each scene from your breakdown. Shuffle the scenes around into the best logical or visual sequence (that why they are separate cards). Identify the key scenes of part 1, part 2 and part 3 of your episode and make cards for them, and identify the climax scene and write out a card for that.
Keep the cards with you wherever you go, jot notes on them every time you think of something significant. Then read them all through in sequence one evening, go sleep on it and then the next day you should be ready to type the first draft of the script of your episode. If you've done the research thoroughly writing the script and especially the dialogue will be dead easy, it will just flow from your fingers as if you were telling a story about your school friends or work colleagues.