We’ve coalesced our thoughts together into a singular stream. While there is still plenty to be done, our alignment in our theme, direction and style is now cemented; a reflective coming-of-age-esque young adult drama pilot. Roughly a 15-20 minute long piece covering and analyzing the pettier sides of share housing, growing up, fitting in, and adapting to new environments through a sardonic lens. Pulling from personal experiences is a large factor in the creation of this concept, which is a little tricky for me as my experience growing up doesn’t have a lot of overlap with the ideas we’re exploring. Because of this, I find taking to fiction and smaller anecdotes from being a young adult as the answer here, considering my mildly creatively prominent role in drafting a script.

From here, we’re going to draft a proper script all together, at which point we will decide on the greater miniature of certain details, a lot of which are influenced from our expectations around production goals. Is it to be easier without grand setpieces and parties, for example. I believe, at least in my adaptation of my script, there will be some hefty exterior scenes, but I too subscribe to this philosophy. Hell, as the scouting producer it’s largely in my interests.

To be perfectly honest, it feels like a few other groups around us seem to have a more rounded idea, or are really stepping into the later stages of the assessment task, but I guess it really isn’t a race, nor is it that much of a competition between groups; I just use this as a metric for the room’s progress. Admittedly, we may have some catching up to do in a few areas in regards to shaping the clay so to speak but it’s not really that big of an issue in the end. In all, not really too much to report outside of this, the drafts are still drafting along, the brains still churning. We’ll see what’s what in a week.