research for project

while writing it occured to me that i was writing it a certain way. we wanted to have conflict between the 'regulars' and we wanted them to interact a specific way to make it funny. i took inspiration from a number of different films and television shows. while coming up with the pitch (the detention room) i thought of 'the breakfast club'. in a way, it too follows the same concept of a detention room with 5 different people who interact but don't nessessarily get along. i didn't want the characters to in any way resemble the characters in the breakfast club though. i thnik that if we stuck to 5 different stereotypes people wouldn't be as interested because they'd straight away refer to the breakfast club. also, when your working with stereotypes, people know what to expect. i wanted to keep the miniseries we were making fresh and slightly more real than the breakfast club. the thing that makes the breakfast club interesting is the fact that after a while, the characters change.
















the thing i did like about the breakfast club was that each character had different qualities that made the characters more enjoyable to watch, and made each person different. sometimes, characters can seem similar and it just doesn't work as well to my mind. one thing i did take from the breakfast club was the way it was written. i needed to find a way to write that would incorporate each character, and keep it interesting. the way the breakfast club is written is brilliant. two characters might be talking and then another one joins in, creating conflict. after that the other characters respond to the conflict. i used this technique in my script. i used the characters by their talking ( 2 characters talking) and then when someone else joins in a causes conflict, their qualities are shown.