OUGD503 - Collaborative Practice - Synopsis & Character Overview

As a group, we went through the characters backstories and possible actors to play each role along with concepts for the show & synopsis. The synopsis was then finalised and polished by Kyle.

AFTER LIFE CRISIS - CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

Name: James

Played By: Jon Richardson

Age: 28

Defining character traits: Non Confrontational, jaded, likes everything to have its own place, a bit of a clean freak.

Occupation: Librarian of a reasonably small library, not well paid.

Family & Relationships: Moved out from his parents house a few years ago. Fairly normal family who care for him but aren't particularly involved in his life. He has a younger sister who is a successful lawyer. He’s single and has been for sometime after a bad breakup from a long term relationship some time ago. Has one very close friend but apart from that he doesn’t really have many other friends.

Likes: Organisation, online chess, routine, badminton, doing the weekly shop

Dislikes: Chaos, noisy eaters, crowded places, the supernatural

Hobbies: Pub for a single pint on a friday night, his idea of a social life. Watching tv, labeling things, watching extended cuts of classic films, badminton with his close friend.

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Name: Gary

Played By: Joe Wilkinson

Age: Deceased at age 41

Defining character traits: Chaotic, noisy, unorganised, lazy, unashamed. Everything James hates, in ghost form.

Occupation: Couldn’t really hold down a job when he was alive but went from job to job at call centers, bar work, shop clerk. Unemployed when he died.

Family & Relationships: Family are all just different versions of him, mum, dad and an identical twin. Lived in a shitty flat above a fish shop. Had a group of friends from the local insect collecting society.

Likes: Eating, junk food, doing nothing

Dislikes: Anything that even resembles work, healthy living, people that are punctual, tidiness.

Hobbies: Part of the local insect collecting society, but it’s not clear if he has ulterior motives.

AFTER LIFE CRISIS - SYNOPSIS

SITCOM - 6 SHORT FORM EPISODES - EPISODE RUNTIME OF 25 MINUTES

James the librarian is content with his uninspiring, uneventful, unambitious life, interrupted when a lacklustre haunting begins.

Gary has unfinished business keeping him from passing on to the afterlife; an overdue library fine. Unable to pay it off, as not being alive makes signing on even more of a pain, he’s instead decided to bother the librarian inadvertently responsible for the fine. Moronic conflict is ever present as James attempts to keep his own life as humdrum as possible whilst Gary dwells in a posthumous existence in the librarian’s apartment. The atypical haunting of the chaotic, sad-act, bachelor spirit is never-ending. Apparitions of cheap cider and greggs pasties replace the ghostly ectoplasm, empty cans flying into heaps replace books flying off shelves and constipation groans in the night replace bumps in the night.