Ah ok. I'll put my idea on the backburner.
Shame really as the idea I have hasn't been done before, plus it's really topical.
The meeting we all work towards... Page 2
Quote: Mike Dan-Carter @ October 24 2008, 4:01 PM BSTI'm sure there are some people on this site who have been so far as a meeting with a producer of some kind.
It would handy if you could explain the process, obviously it starts by sending your script in. Were you then contacted by telephone or e-mail with regards to a meeting? What was said in that call/e-mail?
What then happened at the meeting? Were you asked to prepare anything in terms of more scripts or ideas on casting etc?
It would be great to have some insight into this.
1. Send your script in
2. Go for meeting about script
3. Spend ages rewriting
4. Never get show made
is usually how these things pan out.
although...
1. Send your script in
2. Go for meeting
3. Spend ages rewriting
4. You get asked to write on someone else's show
is what occasionally happens
and...
1. Send your script in
2. Go for meeting
3. Spend ages rewriting
4. They film the f**ker
...is very rare, but just happened to me and Bussell so it can be done!
The thing is to build a reputation which takes forever, but the easiest way to do that is to submit material to existing shows.
Care to elaborate about your success with Bussell?
Quote: catskillz @ October 25 2008, 8:27 PM BSTCare to elaborate about your success with Bussell?
Yes, we met at a gay Salsa club where he wowed me with his fancy footwork and liquid hips. We danced the night away, and then, under that pale August moonlight, we made hot sweet monkey love.
Not really. Basically a well-known production company thought we had similar writing styles and threw us together in the hope we might write something cool.
We did our best and they liked it and filmed a 10 minute-ish taster for Channel 4. 'Twas good fun and a bit surreal and now we wait and see if C4 want it or not.
Congrats Lee (& Bussell).
*slightly disappointed at the lack of actual monkey love*
Quote: Nil Putters @ October 25 2008, 9:10 PM BST*slightly disappointed at the lack of actual monkey love*
There's still time.
Careful, they can be moody.
Quote: Lee Henman @ October 25 2008, 9:08 PM BSTYes, we met at a gay Salsa club where he wowed me with his fancy footwork and liquid hips. We danced the night away, and then, under that pale August moonlight, we made hot sweet monkey love.
Not really. Basically a well-known production company thought we had similar writing styles and threw us together in the hope we might write something cool.
We did our best and they liked it and filmed a 10 minute-ish taster for Channel 4. 'Twas good fun and a bit surreal and now we wait and see if C4 want it or not.
Did they discover you here, on BSG, or had you both sent them your work?
Nothing at all to do with BSG funnily enough - we'd both been funnelled separately towards the production company via Channel 4 and it was the company that decided to marry us up.
We were just really unlucky I suppose...
Ooh, I didn't know that. Congrats (you bastards 
)
By the way, did you both perform in it at all or just write it?
Will you and Bussell still visit when "you're all that and shit?" Or will you cast us aside like the plankton and bottom feeders we are?
Quote: hotzappa11 @ October 25 2008, 11:14 PM BSTOoh, I didn't know that. Congrats (you bastards
By the way, did you both perform in it at all or just write it?
Shamefully, we were in one of the sketches. But I think we did okay. And I think Bussell particularly enjoyed it considering the script called on him to slap my fat bald head about. Many, many times.
Quote: Graham Bandage @ October 25 2008, 11:14 PM BSTWill you and Bussell still visit when "you're all that and shit?" Or will you cast us aside like the plankton and bottom feeders we are?
Us becoming "all that and shit" is highly unlikely. We just made a taster tape, that's all!
I can't speak for Bussell but in the event that I become successful, rest assured I shall disappear up my own arse and never acknowledge any of you ever again.
I jest!
Seriously though, there's a few members of this forum who are VERY successful and they still post. I hate these tossbags who climb another ladder rung and think they're above everyone else. The best way to think about it is we're all below Ricky Gervais and never have a hope of attaining the dizzying heights he has, so that makes us all members of the same Loser's Club.
My experience.....
1, Send in a script.
2, three month gap.
3, told the beeb liked it and would be in touch.
4, three month gap.
5, Asked to a meeting. Asked to re-write first few scenes in a month.
6, three month gap.
7, Asked to another meeting. Asked to re-write remaning scenes in a
month.
8, Six month gap.
9, Beeb like it.
10, three month gap
11, Asked to make slight alterations in a few days....
12, commission.
13, given dates for final deadline for more changes.
14, recording arranged.
15, recording.
16, few weeks gap.
17, TX....Horray!!
18, Payment.
19, Next project.
Well aren't you a lucky f**ker!
Cheers. Thanks for that.