TV Pilot Script Review - BP3

TV Pilot Script Review

 

At the start of the script, we meet Rebecca who is then established as someone who now owns the football club.  She is carelessly getting rid of lots of things in her office which presents a feeling of possible resentment.  She is talking to Higgins who is described as “middle-management, middle everything”.  Then someone who works at the football club that Rebecca owns comes in and she fires him.  This tells the audience that she has authority and is someone to be taken seriously.  This show is written by Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Joe Kelly, Brendan Hunt.  The main character playing as Ted Lasso is Jason Sudeikis who has featured in many comedy shows and films.  This means that it will likely attract a pre-sold audience of fans of him and fans of comedy.

 

The structure of this script establishes the setting very clearly which will help the producer and director when it comes to shooting.  I can use this in my own script to further develop my ideas of what is happening in the script and have a more vivid idea.  It also makes me think about how setting can impact the character and what they are like.  For example, in this script we see Rebecca in her office a lot and we see Ted out on the pitch with the team a lot, so this shows how Rebecca hasn’t got much interest in what the team are actually doing but she cares about making the team big to get back at her ex-partner.  Whereas Ted seems very keen to get to know the team and get on well with them.  This says a lot about his character and tells us he is a very friendly and approachable person.  This representation is made comical as a binary opposition to the team’s unwillingness to have an American coach.  This is hinted towards when we see in the script, Ted talking to the team about football trying to bond with them, but he keeps getting corrected by his coach assistant “Beard”, which is his nickname.  The writer does this very cleverly by putting the audience in the same position as the team, we look at Ted and don’t have much hope that he’ll be a great football coach.  I’ve learned from looking at this script that it is very important to give explanations of how the character is feeling through their actions.  These are just important as the dialogue.  I am going to develop my second draft keeping this in mind.

 

In conclusion, I have learned from the script that as much as I need to develop the characters through what they say, it should also be shown through their actions and reactions to things and can even sometimes be emphasised through the location.