In 13 days, Keith, McGeagh and myself will be attending the BAFTA New Talent Awards as nominees in the writing category. My mental image of this occasion is that of commissioning executives, talent scouts and prospecting producers to be wandering around, drinks in hand, offering out contracts and opportunities left, right and center.
Perhaps I'm delusional.
In any case, we don't want to go into the room under-prepared. So we have an ill-conceived plan. If there are people attending that might be a) slightly interested in our so-called 'talent' and b) have the means to help us out in terms of going professional, then we want to have something to show them.
So we're going to finish off the pilot episode of 'Polis'. Our first draft is just a few pages shy of finished and we should have enough time to polish it up in the next 13 days. I'll stick this on a handful of pen-drives alongside a six episode plot arc, character bios and contact details etc. and hand them out on the night.
But wait, there's more! Before the 24th, we are also going to shoot a scene from the pilot episode and whack that on the drives too. A big concern is that producers might be scared away from the concept of 'Polis', thinking that the action will cost too much money to be financially viable. So we'll just have to show that it can be done for a budget of £0.
If (the perhaps non-existent) they watch it and think it's garbage, then at least they'll still have the script... which I'm hoping isn't garbage.
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