Posted By orchard on March 31, 2010

I am participating in the Script Frenzy even this April.  My good friend Big-O will be working with me to help in the project.  The goal is to write a 100 page script in the month of April.

So right now we have a concept and have outlined a plot.  We are working this script as an audio drama, told from the perspective of a new employee at a large corporation.  I don’t want to give too many details, but we feel like this will be a fun script to write, and it should turn into a fun comedic drama (not a comedy).

For me the difference between a comedy and a comedic drama is the perspective of the characters.  In a comedy, the characters are at least trying to make jokes.  There are setups and punchlines and the like.

In a comedic drama, the jokes are there, but they arise more from the absurdity of the situation.  This is not to be confused with the type of situational humor where the character is immersed in an embarrassing situation (a classic example of this would be Meet the Parents–a movie which I consider unwatchable because of the degree to which the main character spends his time being in intensely embarrassing situations).   This is when a character finds themselves in a situation that is so absurd that its amusing.  A good example of this is the show Chuck.  While it does sometimes have the embarrassing humor, it more often relies on the characters being put in absurd situations.

All that said, by then end of April I should have a full script of 100 pages, which google tells me that means we are shooting for about 100 minutes of produced drama.  Of course we may end up doing no better than I did for NoNaWriMo, where I managed to only squeak out about 8000 words for the months–not really a respectable pace at all.  But that’s what I get for trying to write, have a full-time job, and spend time with my family.

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