Spaced synopsis.

So have I got you interested with my pitch for Spaced? Yes! Well heres my synopsis to give you a bit more information.

Spaced is an innovative situation comedy that follows a group of likable yet bizarre characters living in the suburbs of North West London. When Tim an aspiring comic book artist and Daisy a fantasist supposedly on a path toward becoming a journalist first meet, they could not foresee how there casual meetings in a cafe would soon lead to them depending on each other in more ways than one. When the couple realise that they are both in need of a place to live the duo plan to acquire a simple and what turns out to be shabby apartment by teaming up. Applying under the pretence of being a professional couple the pair successfully attempt to convince the alcoholic, chain smoking and slightly loopy character Marsha to rent the apartment to them. Throughout the series the audience is also introduced to the best friends of the two protagonists. Mike the best friend of Tim is a strangely immature character that has a strange obsession with the military and is referred to as a ‘weapons expert’ if this is true or just an unfulfilled childhood ambition remains to be seen. Twist the companion of Daisy could be seen as a stereotypical dumb blonde in being ditzy and clumsy throughout the series yet being introduced as a character that works in fashion when in reality working in a laundrette, is she a deceiving character or simply self deluded? The final character prominent in this series is the man that rents the ‘apartment downstairs’ Brian. This character, a tormented artist with an alarming split personality, he seems somewhat socially incompetent when surrounded by the other characters and scarily serious and peculiar when alone creating his artwork focusing on the themes of pain, hurt and sorrow. With the remarkably rapid paced editing and use of an enormous array of shots within each scene is it clear that Spaced has pushed forward into a new and pioneering way of storytelling. By setting up their own rules the use of illustrated comic book inserts and imaginary gun battles the audience is subtlety convinced that they are being shown a world that is fully believable and yet totally paradoxical to any form of reality that they would have been subject to before.  Thankfully through the new forms of narrative along with the hilarious comedic aspects so the show the writers have managed to depict a compelling portrayal of emotional growth of the relationships, friendships and independent growth of both Tim and Daisy whilst continuing the use of self contained stories and multiple story arcs in each of the episodes of the two series’.

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Spaced The Pitch

It’s a hard life when you’re a student. After a long weekend of working hard having to pull yourself out of bed on Monday morning isn’t the most appealing of prospects. But when I finally got myself down to the studios and had a cup of tea I was ready for any arduous task that I could be faced with and what a demanding task it was. I was ordered on pain of death to sit myself down in front of the television and watch two episodes of the sit-com Spaced I know terrible right! Spaced isn’t something I’ve watched before but being a fan of Shaun of the dead and Hot Fuzz I was quietly optimistic that it was going to be a very enjoyable show to watch. My optimism was well founded as the snappy comedy was very much like that that I had enjoyed in the fore mentioned films. After watching these two episodes one from the first series and another from the second we discussed some of the many elements that made up the show, a personal favourite being that although the cast and characters were the same the development of relationship and friendships were vast. Within these discussions we also covered elements regarding the plot, themes settings and genre. Out of these discussions we created a long list of words that described each of these components and from that list we would go on to write a pitch as if we was going to pitch the idea of Spaced ourselves. For those of you that don’t know a pitch is a very short and when I say short I mean it 25 words to be precise to sell your idea so that someone may actually want to know more and eventually end up making the movie or television show that you are pitching to them. Anyway here is what I came up with ‘Spaced! A surreal sit-com which follows the relationships of twenty something friends, as their seemingly ordinary lived are impacted by other characters with humours consequences.’ This task was a lot harder than it sounded selecting with components from our list described my view of the program as well as making everything I wanted to say fit within 25 words.

I also wrote a pitch for my favourite television program it’s very obvious but see how quick you can work it out.

‘We follow the young Clark Kent as he discovers his powers and begins his journey from small town farm boy to the legendary man of steal’. Any ideas what I'm pitching?