LB127 Homework

Week 4 Homework  LB127  Euan McAleece. 27/10/10

Summary:

 “We’re All In This Together” Transmitted 11am BBC Radio 7 daily. To show the electorate they can relate to the working class, the leaders of the coalition swap for one week Downing Street for a council flat. They will live together in a three bedroom high-rise in Tower Hamlets, and survive wholly on benefits.  How will David, George and Nick be able to eat after one of them spends their entire Giro, on wine and olives?

Treatment:

 We’re All In This Together.

15 min

Political satire.

This will be a five part sit-com. The conceit of the programme is that David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, will for one week move into a council flat and live together, with only the equivalent of unemployment benefit to live on.  The programme will be a mixture of diary excerpts and recorded narrative with sound FX to provide actuality.  The conflicts between the characters as they get on with the mundane moments of normal life will relate to topical political issues in an amusing way.  For example George spending the housekeeping money on lottery tickets would relate to his handling of the economy. How they react to living in a council flat will show the distance between these privileged members of the political elite and your average working class family.

The Target audience will be politically aware comedy fans. I believe it would suit BBC Radio 7s remit.

The show would be available as a podcast and on I player, as well as longer omnibus at the weekend.

The intro and music bed will be the chorus from “We’re all in this Together” By Ben Lee from the 2006 album “Awake is the New Sleep” Ten Fingers/Inertia records.

Refection

In class we looked at a newspaper and related to words and images from it. We then formed into groups and discussed what these interpellations meant to us individually and as a group. We found we were all from different social backgrounds but shared similar political viewpoints.  Our choice to come up with a political satire seemed a logical one for us. The main problem we had was probably generating too many valid ideas and not focusing on the brief we were given. However we did focus and fairly quickly we formulated the idea for a programme.  Everyone in the group worked with enthusiasm and suggested many great ideas making the process not just productive but enjoyable also.