My Sitcom IdeaBy Lois Brown

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Working Title:

Synopsis:A group of socially awkward (and quite nerdy) young

college students, trying their best to cope with all that life throws at them.

4 young students (3 males and a female) dealing with college life: relationships, popularity etc

Characters are quite socially awkward making their time at college quite unfortunate yet amusing

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Synopsis: Characters

Kitty: A bit kooky, tries to act cute and be noticed by boys, dresses a bit over-the-top, wears bright mismatching clothes, hyperactive and slightly crazy

Ash: A bit dark, likes heavy metal music, sarcastic, quite moody, mysterious, sometimes is a little offensive without realising

Stan: Doesn’t have much look with the ladies, not as ‘weird as the others’, people find him geeky in a cute way, very unfortunate, doesn’t realise how geeky he really is, very loving and sweet

George: The geekiest out of the 4, obsessed with World of Warcraft type games, dresses really smart, has practically no social skills

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Format:- Nikon D3100- Easy to get hold of, borrowed from

college

- HD 1920 x 1080- makes it more appealing as people prefer to watch HD videos due to better quality

- WordPress- Easy to use, free to sign up, lest time and money used

Estimated Duration:Exactly 2 minutes- To adhere to the brief given

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Intended audience: Both genders- male and female characters, not limiting target

audience by gender 16-25- target audience outlined by brief, jokes aren’t too silly

for adults to enjoy, show doesn’t include too much adult content to be inappropriate for under 18s

Social class C1, C2, D, E – Situations not really relatable to upper-middle classes, ideas are easy enough for lower classes to understand

Style: Light hearted comedy Often quite silly- not complicated Influenced by Inbetweeners and the IT crowd- immature

humour of The Inbetweeners, geek references of the IT Crowd

TreatmentsRationale:

Do you like sitcoms centred around groups of friends?

Do you like sitcoms centred around schools/colleges/universities?

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Rationale: Characters will be roughly same

age as target audience Audience will be familiar with the

setting and the situations the characters are Stereotypes used- Often shown in sitcom codes &

conventions, makes characters easier to understand Website will include audience participation (links to social

networking, comment boxes, rating systems etc.)- Audience will feel more involved and will look forward to discussing the show with other fans

Audience able to relate to sitcom

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Feasibility: Set in college- No need to budget for location, more

chances to film, familiarity with location

College students as actors Camera borrowed from college- Easy to get

hold of, available when needed

Editing software from college- Do not have to pay for and install new software

WordPress used- Easy to sign up for, available on any computer- can work on website at home, not many skills

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Budget: Low budget No budget needed for location, filming

equipment, editing software, website creating- all things obtained from college for free

Small budget needed for props and costumes- possible to borrow certain props or costumes from other people, few cheap things may need to be purchased

Fundraising could be used to obtain this money- Cake sale to raise this money

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Deadlines: Planning (pre-production) by 10th

December Filming and creating website

(production) and editing (post production) by 25th January

Script

Script

IMAGES

VIDEOS

SOCIAL NETWORKING

CHARACTERS