2. Idea #1
Character Outer Life: Male, white (British), 17 years
old, straight, only child, lives at home with
parents, middle class, relatively popular at
college, at cooking college, a chefs apprentice,
non religious, no strong political views, earns
money from his apprenticeship.
Inner Life: His desire is to become a famous
respected chef, his life has been relatively easy up
to now, he is now working as hard as ever to fulfil
a career in cooking.
3. Story: A 17 year old boy is coming home from a
hard day at cooking college. Earlier that day he
baked a lemon cheesecake for his parents to
enjoy at their annual dinner party. When he gets
home to prepare all the food he had prepared, he
has realised that some had removed the food
cover from the cheesecake and a small mouse
had been eating the delicious cake. He becomes
extremely frustrated and immediately starts
questioning his parents as to who had removed
the food cover.
The drama will show his investigation into how the
food cover was removed and how he manages to
create another pudding just in time for the dinner
party.
4. Idea #2
Character Outer Life: Female, White Australian
(living in England), 28 years old, lives by
herself, straight, she is a daytime TV Chef,
earns lots of money, lives in a London flat, no
strong political views
.Inner Life: Her desire is to continue her job for
as long a possible, she loves her job, she feels
she has become as successful as she has due
to her lucky food cover.
5. Story: An Australian TV chef is at the high point of her
career, nothing can go wrong. She is on a high pay
salary, her viewer ratings are better than ever. She
believes it’s all down to her lucky food cover. One day
she is doing her live cooking programme making a sea
food platter. But she can’t find her food cover. She
begins to panic and forgets to take the vegetables out
the oven and the noodles begin to boil over. It is a
complete disaster. Her audience boo her, and the
director is furious. She goes home looking for it but it
can’t be found anywhere. Her next live show it all goes
wrong again. The story resolves itself by her realising
that she is in fact a really good chef and doesn’t need
to be superstitious about the food cover anymore.
