The pitch.
Yeah Nah (working title)
A celebration of Australian hooliganism.
Regular segments:
-Drumming in public places
I know a guy who's a drummer, and we already figured out two dams we want to lug his kit to to test the acoustics of drumming at the base of. Rooftops, trains, waterfronts, bus stops, the middle of wilderness, stuff like that.
-This thing i saw in a movie
Anything from outright ridicule/mockery of execution or concepts, to testing of famous pickup lines, outfits worn in public, real crowd reactions to famous coffee shop scenes, and so on and so forth.
-This thing i read on the internet
Either explaining/sharing something awesome i found, or doing mythbusters lite on Yahoo Answers and various advice messageboards. If the latter, as punchy as possible. I got like five segments to cram into half an hour. No time for explanations, just jump into rapid fire voiceover readings and testing/execution.
-Stuntman Showreel
Me living out my dream of piece by piece filming a stuntman showreel. Jumping off things through tables, injurious parkour, partial body burns whilst running through public places, basically anything awesome i can do by slamming my body around.
-Science for Erroneous Home Use
Macguyver, and how. By that i mean the diverse knowledge and adaptability of the former, with explanations and celebrations of geeky, manly, or evil genius undertakings. Whenever demonstrating something illegal, always show the finished product, ie "this is napalm", never "this is how you make napalm." Beakers World meets a blatant disregard for purpose or safety.
-This bloke down the pub says
Interviewing colourful patrons of local establishments to share their most incredible personal tale or most interesting thing they've ever learned. Treat it as a Fox News interview, intercut with my somber reaction shots clearly filmed in another location (or in between drinking off camera.)
-Theory of relativity
The relativity of current affairs journalism to average day to day life. Dissection of specious reporting, testing of claims, attempting to interview people of notoriety or scandal about the mundane spectrum of their day to day life, and other such digs at programs where the reporter always sounds like they're about to finish the sentence by saying the name of a seven year old child in a warning, questioning tone. You know that kid did something real bad, the lady just spent a forty second run-on sentence with weird inflections to display her personal stance on what it was. If he owns up now he's probably toast. No more battlefield for two weeks.
Sketches:
-Can you grow vegetable gardens in abandoned public buildings?
-Unicycling on Parramatta Road.
-It's actually legal to...
-Getting around the OFLC banned book list.
-Buy cheap wetsuit, wear 18th century clothes underneath, swim out past wave breaking point, ditch the wetsuit under some sand, then struggle back to shore like i just survived an old-timey shipwreck. Hard to film, i'd need someone on a surfboard and someone on the beach.
-Fake advertisements. You know, for fake products. Where do i even begin on this.
-How far can one go before the librarian says "leave"?
-Tracking down my old primary and highschool teachers (with anecdotes from my extant report cards), and demanding they re-evaluate me based on current performance.
-Will It Send? Acceptable articles and the restrictions of the postal system.
Segues between segments:
-Stand in Pitt St Mall with a sign saying "FREE COFFEE", with a single takeaway cup of coffee, held out to passersby.
-Put a couch a somewhere a couch doesn't go, then film that couch for a couple of seconds.
-Shots of the city and surrounds clearly filmed from questionable locations.
Basically what i need to do now is buy two HD videocameras from work, rally a friend or two to help with some of the filming, edit it together and start mailing copies to producers. Especially ones who do other comedy on public broadcast, or at the ABC. If that fails, upload the entire episode to youtube, and link it to a kicktarter page to buy some decent equipment and probably hire people whose daily job it is to be cameramen. Then it's a web series.
Any negative reaction by the authorities or the mainstream media would only increase fan base support, as a necessary format and key theme of the show is that this is just what blokes get up to, come on mate, we're all having a fair go here. It's... a cultural thing here, trust me. Root for the underdog. So that's the gist of it.
-Seeker out
A celebration of Australian hooliganism.
Regular segments:
-Drumming in public places
I know a guy who's a drummer, and we already figured out two dams we want to lug his kit to to test the acoustics of drumming at the base of. Rooftops, trains, waterfronts, bus stops, the middle of wilderness, stuff like that.
-This thing i saw in a movie
Anything from outright ridicule/mockery of execution or concepts, to testing of famous pickup lines, outfits worn in public, real crowd reactions to famous coffee shop scenes, and so on and so forth.
-This thing i read on the internet
Either explaining/sharing something awesome i found, or doing mythbusters lite on Yahoo Answers and various advice messageboards. If the latter, as punchy as possible. I got like five segments to cram into half an hour. No time for explanations, just jump into rapid fire voiceover readings and testing/execution.
-Stuntman Showreel
Me living out my dream of piece by piece filming a stuntman showreel. Jumping off things through tables, injurious parkour, partial body burns whilst running through public places, basically anything awesome i can do by slamming my body around.
-Science for Erroneous Home Use
Macguyver, and how. By that i mean the diverse knowledge and adaptability of the former, with explanations and celebrations of geeky, manly, or evil genius undertakings. Whenever demonstrating something illegal, always show the finished product, ie "this is napalm", never "this is how you make napalm." Beakers World meets a blatant disregard for purpose or safety.
-This bloke down the pub says
Interviewing colourful patrons of local establishments to share their most incredible personal tale or most interesting thing they've ever learned. Treat it as a Fox News interview, intercut with my somber reaction shots clearly filmed in another location (or in between drinking off camera.)
-Theory of relativity
The relativity of current affairs journalism to average day to day life. Dissection of specious reporting, testing of claims, attempting to interview people of notoriety or scandal about the mundane spectrum of their day to day life, and other such digs at programs where the reporter always sounds like they're about to finish the sentence by saying the name of a seven year old child in a warning, questioning tone. You know that kid did something real bad, the lady just spent a forty second run-on sentence with weird inflections to display her personal stance on what it was. If he owns up now he's probably toast. No more battlefield for two weeks.
Sketches:
-Can you grow vegetable gardens in abandoned public buildings?
-Unicycling on Parramatta Road.
-It's actually legal to...
-Getting around the OFLC banned book list.
-Buy cheap wetsuit, wear 18th century clothes underneath, swim out past wave breaking point, ditch the wetsuit under some sand, then struggle back to shore like i just survived an old-timey shipwreck. Hard to film, i'd need someone on a surfboard and someone on the beach.
-Fake advertisements. You know, for fake products. Where do i even begin on this.
-How far can one go before the librarian says "leave"?
-Tracking down my old primary and highschool teachers (with anecdotes from my extant report cards), and demanding they re-evaluate me based on current performance.
-Will It Send? Acceptable articles and the restrictions of the postal system.
Segues between segments:
-Stand in Pitt St Mall with a sign saying "FREE COFFEE", with a single takeaway cup of coffee, held out to passersby.
-Put a couch a somewhere a couch doesn't go, then film that couch for a couple of seconds.
-Shots of the city and surrounds clearly filmed from questionable locations.
Basically what i need to do now is buy two HD videocameras from work, rally a friend or two to help with some of the filming, edit it together and start mailing copies to producers. Especially ones who do other comedy on public broadcast, or at the ABC. If that fails, upload the entire episode to youtube, and link it to a kicktarter page to buy some decent equipment and probably hire people whose daily job it is to be cameramen. Then it's a web series.
Any negative reaction by the authorities or the mainstream media would only increase fan base support, as a necessary format and key theme of the show is that this is just what blokes get up to, come on mate, we're all having a fair go here. It's... a cultural thing here, trust me. Root for the underdog. So that's the gist of it.
-Seeker out