One of the first things we had looked at, back when we were thinking of looking at different topics instead of growing up, was a scene written by Hope about the internet dating service Tinder. She had used it originally to demonstrate, using comedy, stereotypes of men and women dating, and turning the ideas on their heads. Basically, instead of the stereotypical man trying to get sex from a woman looking for love, the man was the lovesick one and the woman was the one wanting just a sexual fling. We decided that this could still be used once we decided on our final idea of growing up, as dating is a huge part of many people’s lives. Hannah and I edited the scene so that it made more sense – we changed the set up of it so that both genders were on both sides, and Hannah made the dialogue flow between the two pairs.
Tamsyn then approached me and asked for more comedy in the scene. I came up with the idea that, as the scene already mentioned a few staple “emojis”, using more could really bring comedic value to the scene. So I set about adding these to the scene, usually midsentence, as the juxtaposition of real dialogue and modern emojis spoken out loud unexpectedly creates humour, especially as things like “peeling banana emoji” would be said dead-pan. I am looking forward to seeing how this scene works with our actors!
Ollie