Here’s how they did it… (Because, luckily, we also had the experience and the equipment to make a show.)
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Also, we hired a soundman.
And we started to say beats more than we ever did before.
Were not bad people, but all of our first reactions were Are the rushes safe?
Thankfully, they were.
Classic burglars, thinking too short-term.
Theyll take a laptop but not a hard drive…
The best piece of feedback we got was to make a ten minute redaction of our half hour episode.
And they were PDFs.
You dont mess with PDFs.
They were all male.)
and they submitted Documates (as it was called then) to Channel 4 as aComedy Lab.
Unlike before, when we felt brave and reckless, this time we felt meek and cautious.
Gone were improvisation and risk taking and in came deconstruction and page counting.
If you find something funny, then its funny.
But, its also genuine.
Which is better still.
Other men and women filmed these events.
Then the same men and women filmed the reverse shots.
By this point, our show had no title anymore.
We couldnt call it Documates, as that no longer fit the concept.
Someone did it for us.
It was probably on a big A4 dongle.
And waited some more.
Find out how to get involved with Channel 4s Comedy Lab righthere.
