Behind Bars: an eight-part dramedy hitting television screens… soon?

A snippet from my group’s pitch-deck on the tone and style for our series (taken from ‘Wake in Fright’, 1971)

This semester in the Drop the Pilot studio, we were tasked as a class to assemble a quasi-writers’ room. As a cohort, we brainstormed, researched and mapped out an entire television series, culminating in us writing individual sections of the pilot script which can be comped together into a complete episode.

Through this, I learnt that the writing process actually involves very little writing, at least a first. A large portion of the development phase was devoted to conceptualising the series. For me, this meant conducting research on a tone and style befitting of our fictional world: a regional town called Barrel.

Ultimately, the undertaking of the Drop the Pilot studio has resulted in a coherent and competent final work, one that is reflective of a strong semester of hard work and effective collaboration.