"B.B. AND THE PRIEST" (Family Values Webisode)

Again, to help establish the tone...

“B.B. AND THE PRIEST”

BB is against same sex marriage. He gets endorsed by an influential priest…who turns out to be gay.

THE STORY:

BB gets a political endorsement from a priest who has big problems with the governor (who’s currently under investigation for all kinds of ethics violations).

During a photo shoot in the warden’s office, BB and the PRIEST show their solidarity – shaking hands, arms around each other, joining hands held high…when Charlie barges in, pissed.

Two inmates, (Butch and Rocky), serving life sentences, want to get married, and Charlie just heard that BB refused to allow it. He’s against same sex marriage.

Speaking on behalf of the inmates, Charlie thinks Butch and Rocky make a lovely couple and that they should have the right to do life as wife and wife.

BB won’t budge from his position. The priest agrees with BB – that such a union would be a sin in the eyes of the Lord. BB is smug. He’s got a priest on his side.

When the photos of the priest endorsing BB are all over the news, a story hits that the priest has been molesting altar boys for years.

BB: I was endorsed by a child molester?

CUT TO: interviews with ADULTS who were abused by the priest. They were undecided about how they were going to vote, but, after the endorsement, all of them are now going to vote for the governor. They don’t care that he took bribes, did coke, and used public funds for personal vacations. At least, he’s not using an endorsement from a child molester to try to get elected.

BB asks Daisy what she thinks he should do. She thinks he should kill himself.
When that suggestion doesn’t go over well, she tells him he should step down as warden.
When that suggestion doesn’t go over well, BB pulls a gun on Daisy and tells her to get out of his office. He tells her to bring Charlie into his office. She’ll know what to do.

Charlie enters, and BB tells her he needs help spinning this story. He needs to distance himself from the priest. Charlie tells BB to be careful not to lose the gay vote.

BB says he doesn’t have the gay vote. She tells him he can’t get elected without it.
She tells him to move the focus away from the priest’s history of child molestation and put the focus on gay rights – to put the spotlight on the ill effects of a society that shames people into hiding their sexual preference. If the priest would have felt more comfortable about coming out of the closet when he was younger, maybe he would have chosen a completely different career path.

Charlie convinces BB that it would be a good political move to support gay rights.

Charlie: It’ll help you get more campaign contributions from most of Hollywood and all of San Francisco.

The idea of more money pouring into his campaign is much more appealing than staying true to his own political beliefs. He’ll say anything to get elected.

Charlie tells BB that saying it isn’t enough. He has to prove it that he’s accepting of same sex marriage. Charlie convinces him let Butch and Rocky get married.

One of Charlie’s identities is as an ordained minister in the Church of All Faiths. It gives her the authority to perform weddings, so she does the ceremony.

BUTCH and ROCKY’s wedding is filmed by the crew – and it was Charlie who made it all happen.

Campaign Issues

What's Warden Warren's position on the issues?

1. Add to the list of issues.
2. Pick the areas you spark to and generate stories (beginning, middle, and end) based on those issues.

1. Crime - (in Pilot, he says he's tough on crime; runs a tight ship; Charlie escapes)

2. Family Values

3. Drugs

4. Women's Rights

5. The Death Penalty

6. Gun Control

7. Immigration

8. Education

9. Health Care

10. Abortion

Webisode Ideas - LET'S DO THIS...

You must have 3 webisode ideas posted on the blog. Don't wait till the end of the week to start posting.

Read the blog each day and see what ideas your classmates are posting. If something about the webisode strikes you, ADD TO IT. Contribute to someone else's story. Pose story possibilities by asking a question that starts with "What if..." See where that takes the story.Keep bouncing ideas off each other.

You're the writing staff of this show. The staff has to meet every day, not once a week.

On your 3 webisode ideas - instead of just posting a beginning middle, and end - WORK OUT THE WHOLE STORY.

We will still continue to make the story as strong as possible when we break it down in class, but we need to do more work up front to get more use out of the class time.

In each episode, what's the character's problem? What conflict does it create with the other characters?

Make Up Class Reminder!

Remember, we are making up the class we missed (due to Labor Day) by going an hour later for the next three weeks.

Monday, October 4: Class will go from 7pm - 10:50pm.

Monday, October 11: Class will go from 7pm - 10:50pm.

Monday, October 18: Class will go from 7pm - 10:40pm.

Daisy de Bulle (Prison Guard)

The opportunist.
He wants the warden's job.
What is his attitude?
Explore the conflicts.

Documentary Filmmaker - (Sound Man)

What's his attitude?
How is it different from his camera operator/producer?

Documentary Filmmaker - Camera Operator (Female)

What's her attitude?
How does it differ from the sound man?