SCRIPTING FROM

SCRATCH
Working From Creative Abundance
 Working and Lecturing

14 years in Children’s Entertainment, Lectured at Kidabra & to Children’s Educators at Conferences, Worked
as a pre-school teacher, taught creative writing and drama in private schools, Work Backstage at Magic Live.

HOW MANY SHOWS?
Completed & Bookable
WHY HAVE MANY SHOWS?
➤ If your show’s theme matches the
Corporate / Party theme, that
show is a MUST HAVE
ELEMENT for the client.
➤ Custom Shows built around a
requested give-away item, theme
or message = $$$$
➤ Tap into the lifetime value of a
client by offering a different show
for next year’s event
➤ Cause of the Paradox of Choice
(You want some options, not too
many)
➤ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmI7NnMqwLQ
The Jam Experiment
THE SCRATCH SYSTEM
Just get to the point already!!!
 PLEASE TAKE OUT A
BLANK SHEET OF PAPER
AND FOLLOW ALONG
Those found to not be following along 

but instead using their paper to draw silly
pictures will be scolded then high-fived, 

but really sarcastically. 

 S = SOMETHING
Write down all of the somethings about your something

theme, item, effect, setting…ect
PICNIC THEME
➤ Checkered Blankets ➤ Picnic Table
➤ Picnic baskets ➤ Doing something just to take a
selfie of you doing it
➤ Teddybear’s Picnic
➤ Watermelon
➤ Sandwiches
➤ Ants, bees, mosquitoes
➤ Tupperware
➤ Eating food of the ground like a
➤ Sporks
filthy animal
➤ People on a date
➤ Getting rained on
➤ Dirt in your food
➤ Germs!!
➤ Watching the clouds
➤ So many Germs!!
➤ Grass, Trees, Twigs
➤ Why does anyone picnic?
 C = COMEDY
What’s so funny about your something?

gags, jokes, puns, funny sounds and other bits of business
CANDY CANE
➤ Unstriped candy cane is ➤ The hook of the candy cane
naked, ask someone to give keeps something out of
it their shirt reach, knocks off hat off,
hooks on underwear and
➤ Candy cane gives a cavity,
gives a wedgie
chips tooth, gets stuck in
mouth ➤ Candy cane tastes like
something silly / gross /
➤ Candy cane has hair on it, is
spicy
dirty, was up someone’s
nose ➤ Candy cane is forbidden
➤ Candy cane is too big, small, ➤ Candy does not wish to be
floppy, smelly, heavy, eaten
numerous or weird
 R = RELATE
Plots, concepts and relationships that would be relatable your audience

Your something feels something about something
RELATABLE PLOTS FOR CHILDREN
➤ Shared desires we ➤ Felling lost ➤ Trying to get
keep hidden away with
➤ Are full of
something
➤ Wanting to be yourself
Special ➤ Can’t Reach
➤ To excited
➤ Not allowed ➤ Can’t Find
➤ To distracted
➤ Are afraid ➤ Can’t figure out
➤ Jealous
➤ Don’t know ➤ Can’t remember
➤ Super brave
➤ Feeling Shy ➤ Want to show off
➤ Embarrassed
to your friends
➤ Sugar High ➤ Wanting to be /
➤ Want to tell a
➤ Sick or Unwell do more
secret
RELATABLE PLOTS FOR ADULTS
➤ An Origin Story ➤ A Life Transition
➤ Lost or Unrequited Love ➤ Overwhelming Work
➤ A Love Won ➤ Making a big choice
➤ A Dream or Goal Achieved ➤ Can’t Find Something
➤ Having Been Bullied ➤ Can’t Understand
Something
➤ Overcoming Bad Health
➤ Overcoming Boardroom
➤ Fear of losing one’s self
➤ Catching Someone in a Lie
➤ Lose of Control
➤ Risking one’s Safety
➤ A Painful Break-Up
 A = AMAZE
What amazing fun can be had with this something? 

How is it unexpected? unusual? magical? impressive ? special?
AMAZING THINGS THAT MIGHT RELATE TO YOUR SOMETHING
➤ Magic Tricks ➤ Songs / Music / Poems
➤ Circus Skills ➤ Puppets
➤ Demonstrate the unusual ➤ Live Animals
Properties of your ➤ Puzzles
something
➤ Games
➤ Provide unintuitive
information about your ➤ Stories
something ➤ Unusual / Fun prop related
➤ Stunts to your something

➤ Gags ➤ Optical Illusions

 T = TENSION
What elements of tension, conflict or drama 

can be created around your something?
TENSION & SUSPENSE
➤ The Rubber Band
➤ Mirror Neurones - The
Audience is experiencing the
story physically
➤ Like Holding your Breath
➤ Let kids put ideas together
➤ Tension leads to discovery
(bubble show = what shape is a bubble)

➤ Honest Conflict
“
Drama is anticipation mingled with
uncertainty

-William Archer
 C = CHARACTER
How does your character relate to this something?
afraid of, sick of, in need of, unsure of, unaware of, suspicious of…
Make me Care with a clear Character
EX: Take the Looney Tunes, well defined characters driven by clear wants
Chuck Jones - The Evolution of an Artist / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpXle4NqWI
DAFFY DUCK
➤ The butt of the joke
➤ A Bit Crazy
➤ He want glory
➤ Quick to Frustration
➤ Who is doing this Sort of
Character?
➤ Silly Billy
BUGS BUNNY
➤ Confident and Calm
➤ Works for a solution to
problems
➤ Wants Order
➤ Who is doing this Sort of
Character?
➤ Christopher Barnes
WILE E COYOTE
➤ Clever and Confident about it
➤ Has a whole bag a trick
➤ Subverts the expected
outcome of his props
➤ Who is doing this Sort of
Character?
➤ The Great Zucchini
LIKEABLE, RELATABLE 

& CLEARLY FOCUSED
H = HIT HOME
What is your punctum?
a little something special
 TELL A VALUABLE TRUTH

DEEPEN OUR UNDERSTANDING

STOKE AMBITION
EXTINGUISH FEAR
Question Assumptions . Love for Science
Failure is part of Learning. Failure is Ok
Self Awareness is key. Be Humble
THE SCRATCH SYSTEM

Something - All The Things


Comedy - All The Funny Things

Relate - All The Heart 

Amaze - All The Sparkle

Tension - All The Drama

Character - All The Personality
Hit Home - The Punctum
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