3. MY EXPERIENCE
AVP twice.
8 short films (of my own).
A 10 minute sitcom pilot.
Classes at UCLA and USC.
Film/tv school???
http://vimeo.com/56070190
4. U N I Q U E T H I N G S
A C C O M P L I S H E D
Single-camera sitcom that is not interview style.
Balance between workplace and home-oriented comedies.
Lack of sexuality or gender oriented themes – meaning, these
things are irrelevant to characters.
Likeable unlikeable main character.
A unique overall theme and tone.
5. THE STORY
We learn about Jack and Verity’s
personalities.
We meet Jack’s father and sister and
learn about his relationship with his family
and what the household’s like.
We learn about the personalities and
dynamic within his workplace.
Basically most of the pilot is about
relationships rather than things
“happening” (exception: museum).
Jack gets a job.
Jack and Verity go to the
museum.
Jack visits his workplace and
meets coworkers.
Jack comes home and meets his
mother.
(and why I did it this way)
Editor's Notes
I’m the Kid is the name of my sitcom and it has inspiration from the band The Real Tuesday weld, the industrial revolution, swing revival, 1930s gangsters etcetcetcBasically bringing old cool things back to relevance with a modern spin on them.
The pictures are the character (inspired by band’s) portrayal in The Real Tuesday Weld’s music video and then a guy who looks like the picture I had in my head. I dunno.The character Jack is pretty rude and sassy. But his redeeming factors are: he’s funny, he actually has a good heart somewhere down in there, and he’s such a loser that you think he is sort of adorable in a pitiful way. So that is how I make a jerk likeable. He comes from a fairly wealthy family. His dad is a boistrousand successful businessman who is super loving but overbearing. He is warm and welcoming and everything that Jack is not. Jack gets annoyed by him and stuff but he does really love his dad. Then he has a little sister, Amy, who takes too much after Verity sometimes because she thinks she’s super cool. She is like 8-12 depending on what actors I can get, but the deal with her is that she wants to be cool and gangster and stuff and is a big spaz. She annoys Jack a lot, but again, he does have this deep underlying brotherly love and protection in there.
I do a lot of stuff I honestly doThat link is to my film reel if you want to look at it. The second film shown in it is an excerpt from the sitcom I’ve made before. Multicamera, studio, laugh track. The opposite of what I’m doing now. I made it two years ago but it was fun lol. I’ve been into creative stuff since like 8th grade and I knew I wanted to work with tv comedy by 10th. Not sure if I want to be a writer or director or whatever yet.
Everything about my show is intentional and I’m looking to experiment and do things that aren’t done often or haven’t been done before.I want to break away from single-camera interviews (like Parks and Rec, The Office, and I think Modern Family and 30 Rock?) I want to break away from the single-setting aspect of most shows where the majority of them takes place at a local hangout like a bar, a workplace, or with the family at home. Like you could pinpoint a central place for every single show. I don’t like how sexuality, gender, and other issues are always brought up and have dramatic plot lines. In order to be even more progressive, I’d rather have these things be defaults. They do not make characters who they are or shape their lives.
I wanted the pilot to be more about characters, because if it was about the plot the humor would have to be cheap jokes, and it would be impersonal and bad. The funniest stuff comes from knowing the characters, not talking about poop dildos or whatever Adam Sandler even does these days. So its mostly talking and meeting characters, but I do have one random scene of plot (that I might change actually ergh) to make it more interesting. But yeah. The best part about tv is the character development and the humor arising from that aspect.
