REMINDER: Each writer (or team of writers) must post three webisode ideas that have a beginning, middle, and end.
I'll select two ideas. Then, I'll set up a posting title for each of them.
Use the blog to start breaking those stories - just like you did on the pilot.
Then, we'll put them on the board Monday night.
Be clever, be creative, and have fun.
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I'll have mine for you today.
Here are just the basics of the story. I have a much more detailed idea in mind:
Chance and the Wheelchair
Beginning:
While at the café Chance notices a young man in a wheelchair having a problem getting around the café and can’t get into the restroom because of the doorknob is hard to grasp.
Middle:
Chance in wheelchair trying to get into apartment but there are steps and the elevator is too small.
End:
Chance comes out of it in the café and tells Jimmy he’ll be right back. He returns with a new doorknob that is a handle instead of a knob. He also moves the furniture around for easier access for wheelchairs.
Concept:
This is how Chance learns how unfair the world can be to people that are physically different and have disabilities.
Chance and the Transgender Woman
Beginning:
Chance and Jimmy see a beautiful woman enter the café. Jimmy goes over to her but her voice is very masculine. Jimmy is surprised and makes a somewhat discriminatory comment to Chance.
Middle:
Chance is now transgender and having to live in a world that does not like him. He gets starred at on the bus and while walking down the street. When he tries to use the restroom at a business he is denied access by the management because he is not a real woman.
End:
Chance, back in normal time, tells Jimmy off and then helps the woman with whatever she needs.
Concept:
This is a chance to see Chance deal with discrimination from a different angle, how people that are transgender have to live everyday being different.
Chance and the TV Addict
Beginning:
Chance is in his apartment when an old friend comes by to watch something on TV. It’s an old b&w series from the 50s. The friend talks about how it was done live and how exciting it would have been to have been there and how much hard work it would have been. Chance thinks what is friend is talking about it pretty stupid and that it would have been a blast to be on the set and that it would have been constant fun.
Middle:
Chance finds himself in the studio while the episode is in rehearsal. He discovers how difficult it was doing live TV and how rough the rehearsals were. Both Jimmy and Megan play roles in the show.
End:
Chance is back in his apartment and has a new appreciation for how tough TV production can be. He learns that not everything is what it is cracked up to be.
Concept:
Chance learns a valuable lesson about how hard people work to make things look simple and how hard it is to entertain people.
I'm going to post them as I come up with them. Here is the first one. It is a take off of the idea we had in class where Jimmy has a mental detector of info about all the woman in the Nowhere Cafe.
A girl walks into the Nowhere Cafe and Chance is drawn to her because of he beauty. Chance attempts to talk to her but, he can't find the right words. After Jimmy tells Chance that he can tell him everything he needs to know about the girl just by looking at her. Jimmy sizes the girl up and tells Chance things he found out during the conversation with her. Jimmy wonders what it would be like to have the ability to read woman.
Chance then merges into the fantasy world and knows everything about all these woman and men too. It soon becomes too much for Chance as he is overwhelmed with everyones problems and was happier being left in the dark.
The twist is that Chance learns that Morgan is unhappy where she is at and she is looking for a place to stay. This will give us a way to have Morgan move in with Chance.
OOOOOH! I really like Chris' idea alot.
Idea no. 1
A Chance cliche.
Chance accompanies Jimmy to get his tattoo fixed. He is cajoled into getting one when he is there, and the tattoo artist that helps him is spiritual and tribal, and completely covered in works of art. He tells Chance that to find spirituality, he needs to get more tattoos.
Chance decides that maybe he does lack a spiritual focus, and that's why he cannot decides his life. He launches into his fantasy, and he is at a tattoo convention with tattoo sleeves. He tries to find spirituality by engaging a blow-tattoo artist in conversation, and this artist tells him to believe in Satan. Chance runs away, and stumbles into a piercing booth, and the artists insists on threading his neck with laces.
He gets out of his fantasy in the nick of time, and seems to be satisfied with his one tiny tattoo that says "As it goes"
Okay here is my second idea.
Chance gets set up on a blind date by Jimmy. Chance meets the girl at a restaurant and she is very attractive, but very demanding. She's rude to the waiter and complains time and time again about her food that Chance is embarrassed.
Chance has a fantasy that he is now a waiter and waiting on this girl. Jimmy is on the date with her instead of him. Not only is she yelling at Chance, but all the other tables around him are giving him a hard time and he crumbles under the pressure.
Chance snaps out of it and uses his experience to teach Jimmy better customer service at the Nowhere cafe.
My third idea is that Chance goes on another blind date and they go shopping. Everything on the date is going great until Chance sees her begin to shop lift several items from the store. Chance doesn't know what to do. Turn her in or not.
I'm still not sure how we could use a fantasy in this one, but I think the concept of Chance in this position could be funny and interesting.
A Pocket Full Of Stones
Chance drives a rich woman in his cab to the airport. On the way back he pulls into a rest stop for something to eat, but when he heads back to his cab he finds a small bag on the floor of his car. He picks it up and peeks inside, it’s filled with expensive diamond jewelry.
Chance searches the airport trying to find information about the woman but ends up with nothing. Back at the Nowhere Jimmy tries talking Chance into keeping the items but Chance won’t hear about.
Jimmy snatches them Chance. Morgan gets firm with Jimmy who just throws it back at Chance. He asks Chance if he’s ever dreamed of being a diamond runner. A brief image of Chance flashes who’s tired up with a large African mercenary about to chop off his head. Chance yells, “NO!”
Chance turns the diamonds into his boss. That night at the Nowhere Morgan tells Chance his did the right thing but Jimmy is drunk about ready to sob. The woman who forgot the jewelry walks in and thanks Chance for turning them in. She gives Chance a long passionate kiss then leaves. Jimmy remarks that Chance owed him because he’s the one who told him to turn the items in.
Let’s Have Fun
Chance and Morgan are spending the day at an amusement park during the summer having a great time. After getting off of a rollercoaster Chance walks into an arcade to find a group of kids playing King of Streets, an action fighting game. He beats the kids there and is having a blast to the point he becomes completely obnoxious, then Jin walks in.
Jin is an 11-year-old gaming god who destroys Chance game after game. Chance leaves the park reeling like a shell of a man. While he should be studying for his midterms, Chance is practicing his videogames.
Chance finds out that Jin is in a pro-gaming league. Jimmy becomes interested in helping Chance when he finds out betting is involved and sets out to help Chance become the best game player he can be.
The day of the tournament Chance blows through the preliminaries. The matches lead to a final showdown with Jin with the victor gaining entry into the semi-finals. The match is close but Chance loses. He takes defeat in stride and gains a friend in young Jin. Jimmy however doesn’t take it too well having lost a ton of money.
Roughing the Passer
Jimmy is all excited because it’s football season. The bar down the street is raking in the money and Jimmy just has to have a piece. He decides to start a gambling pool with Chance figuring out the odds.
As the season progresses Jimmy sets up the Nowhere to have more of a sports atmosphere. One day when Chance gets the mail for Jimmy he sees a strange letter from Red’s, the bar down the street. They both read it and it’s a treating letter warning them to stop cutting in on their betting business or else.
One night Chance walks home after the tires were slashed on his cab slashed. He daydreams about being a football star. He sets up for the game winning drive but just ends up being sacked and dragged off in a stretcher.
He gets to his apartment and finds two hot young women waiting for him. They work at Red’s, the sports bar Jimmy is taking business away from. They somehow got it in their head Chance is Jimmy and kick his ass.
Hi! Sorry I'm so late to the party, I had a lot of trouble with my internet and getting this blog to work, but now I've figured it out. Since class is tomorrow I thought I would just share my thoughts on the ideas that have been posted and post my episodes after Monday:
I really liked the "Pocket full of stones" idea because I think the basic idea and storyline for Chance would be a great way to show him facing a moral dilemma. I think we could talk about changing the fantasy so it was more than just a flash.
The other idea that I really liked was Chris' girl mental detector. It had a "what women want" quality (I'm guessing, I never saw that movie.) I think there is a lot of room for humor in that scenario.
Lastly, I thought the TV show within a TV show idea was interesting. I think the "Chance finds out how hard live tv shows are" idea could be different, but the B&W tv show with Morgan and Jimmy sounds so cool and really visually interesting.
I think we could do this by having the tv episode they are all in somehow mirror what they're dealing with in real life. For example: start out with a conflict between the three characters in the nowhere cafe. Chance gets upset and walks out and goes home to cool off and watches an old b&w show. He notes how easy life seemed back then and then we cut to a fantasy of the b&w show that starts out simple but Chance realizes life was just as complicated back then and he would have been dealing with the same kind of problems. The conclusion could be something he realized during the fantasy that leads to resolution with his friends.
It's a vague concept at this point, but I really liked the idea and just wanted to take a stab at it...
I really like that take on it. I watch a lot of TV and have realized that Leave it to Beaver gets a bad rap. They did show that life can be hard and that we are all different.
And it can be really cool visually, not the a b&w video. It can look like an old kinescope (if you really want to know then ask me later).
Sort of like Pleasantville but with life being tough.
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