Stage 2: Fictional Study

Using what you have learnt, in audiovisual design, writing for visual media and AV production
Thinking about: Place, space and pace

To do: Using the research done in stage 1 produce a script for a 6 minute fictional AV work with two main characters. Research and pre produce your film and produce a 40 second pilot using Frame Forge to show how your film will look and feel.

Over the Christmas I have managed to sketch out two main characters for my film aswell as a basic plot outline. The concept is fairly similar to that of the classic film 'The Odd Couple' directed by Gene Saks (written by Neil Simon) in that it will follow the story of two very different friends who share a flat together....with hilarious consequences brought about through conflict.My two main characters will be loosely based upon on two people I know that live around the corner from me.

Character 1: Sean (The Hippy)

Sean is a peaceful and spiritual man of the earth. He is quiet and reserved, a deep-thinker, always looking to lend a hand, and seldom loses his temper; however he also happens to be fairly disaster-prone and is often on the receiving end of unfortunate incidents. His hobbies include meditating, cooking, reading, smoking weed, tai-chi, computing, playing guitar and enjoys chillout,psytrance and soft rock music.

Character 2: Barry (The Lout)

Barry is a loud and rowdy pub-loving chav. Due to his love for beer, he is usually incapable of intelligent or civilised conversation, he is clumsy and destructive, and overall a bit of a menace to society; however he a happy person who is fairly oblivious to his actions and deep down has a good heart and cares deeply for his friends. His hobbies include drinking, fighting, football, porn, snorting cocaine, clubbing, snooker and enjoys drum n bass, hardcore and heavy metal music.

However despite the characters' major differences......they happen to be the very best of friends!! They have grown up together since primary school but began to choose very different paths in life fairly early on, but at the age of 22 their friendship is still strong as ever. The film will be set primarily in the friends' flat revolving around a typical day in the life of two such conflicting characters living together in a small space. I picture it to have a fairly to similar feel to the popular 90's TV show 'Bottom' starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.

Sean will take serious/mundane character role of the story, while Barry will provide the comic relief and conflict which pushes the story forward.

Over the next few weeks I will be researching numerous sources to help me design and write the script for this film such as various similar characters and scripts as well as set design and art production.