Reality Television Concept Available
Sun, 1 May 2005, 02:27 pmljstockham8132 posts in thread
Reality Television Concept Available
Sun, 1 May 2005, 02:27 pmIs there a television producer out there looking for a reality television show concept? Breakdown follows.
Title: Dream Role
Genre: Reality Television.
Logline: Well-known professional actors and actresses pursue their long-time dream roles from motion pictures in a concert-like presentation before a live audience.
Set Requirements: Set requirements are not necessary, utilizing lecterns for the actors to read from with (perhaps) large flats with reproductions of the original motion picture placards for the films the dream roles are being re-enacted.
Voting System: The audience would electronically check one or two responses on a small panel at each seat: that is, a button for “dream role” or a button for “worse nightmare” to determine the result as to whether or not the live audience found the star was better than the original star in the film or not. There would be an override system programmed into the small panels to stay-off individuals pushing buttons for both areas.
Narrator: The narrator providing the ‘scene settings’ should be the same actor or actress throughout the series. In other words, the narrator would be a quasi-host or quasi-hostess.
WGAw Registration: 1060630.
Concept by: Linda Stockham
http://geocities.com/ljstockham/Mypage.html
Agent/Manager Television & Film: Andreas Gruenberg
http://www.gruenbergfilm.com
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Title: Dream Role
Genre: Reality Television.
Logline: Well-known professional actors and actresses pursue their long-time dream roles from motion pictures in a concert-like presentation before a live audience.
Set Requirements: Set requirements are not necessary, utilizing lecterns for the actors to read from with (perhaps) large flats with reproductions of the original motion picture placards for the films the dream roles are being re-enacted.
Voting System: The audience would electronically check one or two responses on a small panel at each seat: that is, a button for “dream role” or a button for “worse nightmare” to determine the result as to whether or not the live audience found the star was better than the original star in the film or not. There would be an override system programmed into the small panels to stay-off individuals pushing buttons for both areas.
Narrator: The narrator providing the ‘scene settings’ should be the same actor or actress throughout the series. In other words, the narrator would be a quasi-host or quasi-hostess.
WGAw Registration: 1060630.
Concept by: Linda Stockham
http://geocities.com/ljstockham/Mypage.html
Agent/Manager Television & Film: Andreas Gruenberg
http://www.gruenbergfilm.com
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Re: Reality Check?
Sun, 1 May 2005, 05:30 pmLinda Stockham wrote:
>
> Is there a television producer out there looking for a
> reality television show concept? Breakdown follows.
>
> Title: Dream Role
> Well-known professional actors and actresses pursue
> their long-time dream roles from motion pictures in a
> concert-like presentation before a live audience.
> Set requirements are not necessary,
> utilizing lecterns for the actors to read from with (perhaps)
> large flats with reproductions of the original motion picture
> placards for the films the dream roles are being re-enacted.
> Voting System: The audience would electronically check one
> or two responses on a small panel at each seat: that is, a
> button for “dream role” or a button for “worse nightmare” to
> determine the result as to whether or not the live audience
> found the star was better than the original star in the film
> or not.
Perhaps it would be worth inquiring as to whether there are ANY well-known professional actors who would be interested in submitting to this?
It sounds like a rather public audition, where the role has already been cast..!
The main obstacle to overcome would be how to separate the film image we have of, say, Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs (a great acting role), from an actor reading (..!) his part from a lectern, on a stage, on TV...!
How is any actor (even if they went one better and actually learnt their lines - hey there's a suggestion) going to compete??
Monologues from films don't always transfer well to stage, and monologues on stage NEVER translate well onto TV....so you're set up to fail before you even start to speak...
The performer not only has to do the character well (without the benefits of film edits, camera angles, and studio effects) and compete against a hollywood star's famous performance, but then they have to impress a live audience in a studio. Not every film or TV actor can do that, it's a completely different performance technique (one which may well be at odds with the film script they are performing.) And then not only that, but the whole process is going to television, which distills things even further. The picture the viewers get is what counts, as far as a TV producer is concerned. I'm getting hideous images of Home and Away stars doing Jack Nicholson impersonations on Telethon...I only donate to make them stop.
> There would be an override system programmed into the small panels to stay-off individuals pushing buttons for both areas.
...what is going to stop people from only EVER voting "worst nightmare"...?
As much as I think this all sounds abysmal, and as opposed as most professionals are to 'reality TV' entertainment which employs no professional performers, perhaps this is a more workable suggestion...
AMATEUR (ie home viewer) contestants get the chance to act out their favorite scene. But rather than doing it like a live audition, they get to spend a few days with a professional crew who set it up and film it properly, with settings, costumes, close-ups, camera edits, soundtrack, effects, other actors, stuntmen, etc...all the things that make a film so much better than a piece of text.
The host gets to meet the contestant and talk with them, and then we see the footage of how he/she is transformed into their matinee idol...then the audience votes.
Of course, the dilemma is whether to vote based on liking the chosen piece, or liking the performance, or liking the resemblance, or liking an original interpretation, or liking the original movie and actor...all of which are completely different reasons to approve or not approve of the piece.
But given that reality TV talent competitions are rarely based on talent, these should be minor concerns. It'll probably be a hit, and be another reason for me not to switch on the television.
Cheers
Craig
>
> Is there a television producer out there looking for a
> reality television show concept? Breakdown follows.
>
> Title: Dream Role
> Well-known professional actors and actresses pursue
> their long-time dream roles from motion pictures in a
> concert-like presentation before a live audience.
> Set requirements are not necessary,
> utilizing lecterns for the actors to read from with (perhaps)
> large flats with reproductions of the original motion picture
> placards for the films the dream roles are being re-enacted.
> Voting System: The audience would electronically check one
> or two responses on a small panel at each seat: that is, a
> button for “dream role” or a button for “worse nightmare” to
> determine the result as to whether or not the live audience
> found the star was better than the original star in the film
> or not.
Perhaps it would be worth inquiring as to whether there are ANY well-known professional actors who would be interested in submitting to this?
It sounds like a rather public audition, where the role has already been cast..!
The main obstacle to overcome would be how to separate the film image we have of, say, Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs (a great acting role), from an actor reading (..!) his part from a lectern, on a stage, on TV...!
How is any actor (even if they went one better and actually learnt their lines - hey there's a suggestion) going to compete??
Monologues from films don't always transfer well to stage, and monologues on stage NEVER translate well onto TV....so you're set up to fail before you even start to speak...
The performer not only has to do the character well (without the benefits of film edits, camera angles, and studio effects) and compete against a hollywood star's famous performance, but then they have to impress a live audience in a studio. Not every film or TV actor can do that, it's a completely different performance technique (one which may well be at odds with the film script they are performing.) And then not only that, but the whole process is going to television, which distills things even further. The picture the viewers get is what counts, as far as a TV producer is concerned. I'm getting hideous images of Home and Away stars doing Jack Nicholson impersonations on Telethon...I only donate to make them stop.
> There would be an override system programmed into the small panels to stay-off individuals pushing buttons for both areas.
...what is going to stop people from only EVER voting "worst nightmare"...?
As much as I think this all sounds abysmal, and as opposed as most professionals are to 'reality TV' entertainment which employs no professional performers, perhaps this is a more workable suggestion...
AMATEUR (ie home viewer) contestants get the chance to act out their favorite scene. But rather than doing it like a live audition, they get to spend a few days with a professional crew who set it up and film it properly, with settings, costumes, close-ups, camera edits, soundtrack, effects, other actors, stuntmen, etc...all the things that make a film so much better than a piece of text.
The host gets to meet the contestant and talk with them, and then we see the footage of how he/she is transformed into their matinee idol...then the audience votes.
Of course, the dilemma is whether to vote based on liking the chosen piece, or liking the performance, or liking the resemblance, or liking an original interpretation, or liking the original movie and actor...all of which are completely different reasons to approve or not approve of the piece.
But given that reality TV talent competitions are rarely based on talent, these should be minor concerns. It'll probably be a hit, and be another reason for me not to switch on the television.
Cheers
Craig