Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24480187-20140309211358/@comment-10734109-20140310205429

See, the one thing about AP's idea that I'm not a huge fan of (though I do like it, don't get me wrong!) is that it isn't very plausible. If we just arrived at the school as new students who were mere children, they wouldn't suddenly close the school. Perhaps they would be contemplating to reduce the number of available courses that the students could take, but not necessarily shutting the whole school down. Plus, I know from experience that it's very difficult to earn a good deal of money, and it's nearly impossible to earn such a large amount within a day. Unless we were to convince a big company sponsor the school over a phone call (which, might I add, is very unlikely), it would be impossible for us to do so. Truthfully, we wouldn't even be able to get to the manager of the entire company, and therefore the idea wouldn't work as planned anyway.

Another thing we must account for is the length of each episode. Not much would be able to happen in the 3-5 minute time frame. Perhaps if we were making a full MOVIE it could work, but since we clearly can't do that, we should take awhile to rise to major plot events. Once we reach the conflict of the courses being cut (which could be introduced by no earlier than the end of episode two), we can follow up the episodes after this one with our characters attempting to raise $50,000.00 to keep them open. And, yes, it would cost a lot of money. The storyline can follow their attempts to raise the cash needed, while also introducing multiple subplots that they have to deal with. In the end, we would say that all forms of art are just as important as the others or something along those lines. For now, we need to concentrate on what would normally be in the first ten minutes of a show's pilot episode, so basically we just need to concentrate on some exposition type material.

Also, just because we know each other here on the wiki doesn't automatically mean that our characters have to be aquainted yet. The fact that they wouldn't know each other and would have to somehow make friends and get to know the other students would add another subplot to work with, and would definitely help in developing the characters. We'll see how they interact with one another and how well they can cooperate within a group that they aren't used to. Plus, if we start the pilot out with my idea, we can have the characters grouped into five or six with whoever is present at their work tables, as I've said on the main talk page. That way we'll be able to focus on a different group in each episode, rather than on one single character, giving each of the characters equal screentime without overloading the episodes with characters. However, if we stick with this idea we'll have to decide which characters can be grouped together to make the most interesting combinations. This, by all means, does not mean that whatever characters have the most things about them in common and would be the most likely to get along are going to be together. In fact, it should be closer to the opposite. The characters that are most prone to a rivalry between each other should be forced to cooperate, so we can have even more interest added into the story. Having the storyline be too perfect would ruin opportunities for jokes by our sarcastic characters and having minor conflicts between the friends.

To add even more variety to our character types, I'm volunteering to have my character be a boy. If he's the only guy there, this would open more humorous opportunities as well. He'll still represent me, of course, but will (naturally) be slightly more masculine. I'm perfectly OKAY if any of the characters show some sort of animosity towards mine. All it would do is allow for the storyline to become more interesting.

I hope that this contributes to where we're going with this :) I'm excited to see what we can come up with!