Last Tuesday, I started taking an online class on writing for television. It’s taught by Larry Brody, who has created, written, or produced for such shows as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Fall Guy, Walker: Texas Ranger, Automan, and many others. Brody is also the author of Television Writing from the Inside Out : Your Channel to Success.
As part of the class, I’m working on the developing the TV series for which I have already written the teleplay for the pilot episode. Naturally, I will end up revising it a lot.
Anyway, after last week’s lesson, I’ve revised the “logline” for the series. (A logline is a one or two sentence premise for a show.) Here it is:
Camelot High is a one-hour fantasy action drama about a high school freshman whose life becomes complicated when the ghost of King Arthur recruits him to fight magical evil.
The assignment due today was to write a 3-page “leavebehind” — a series proposal. It took longer than I thought to write it, because even though I’ve put quite a bit of thought into developing the series premise, organizing it into a coherent 3-page presentation was tough. Plus, I had to think up loglines for four episodes in addition to the pilot.