Graham Linehan:
Key Work - IT Crowd (2006), Brass Eye (1997)
Lineham has done other works than these two television series however I have only seen these two most likely because they are of similar genre; comedy/ mockumentary. Satire is the main component of Brass Eye which covers some otherwise sensitive subjects such as Paedophilia and addiction to drugs. However Lineham uses over exaggeration to cause a sort of 'nonsense' feel about what they are talking about. For example in one of the "Drugs" episodes the show got Bernard Manning (a comedian at the time) to say "one girl threw up her own pelvis bone". The IT Crowd is a more recent series that Lineham has written and is also a comedy, however the humour is more subtle here for example Moss's inability to extinguish fires or deal with spiders and covers a broader subject continuously unlike Brass Eye which changed subject per episode. In this TV programme the main character is Moss the Computer technician and his friend and work colleague Roy, later in the series Jen is appointed Head of IT by the company's boss because she bluffed her way through an interview. I like both Brass Eye and The IT Crowd and they appealed to me because originally I had thought about including some subtle humour in my script. After filming however I felt that humour would not fit the general atmos of the piece.
Screen Writer 2
Duffer Brothers:
Key Work - Hidden (2015), Wayward Pines (2015), Stranger Things (2016)
The Duffer brothers' latest work is a Netflix series called Stranger Things. Based in the 80's Stranger Things is a Sci-Fi/ Horror series that follows a group of friends in their childhood as an alien escapes and townspeople become prey to it, including one of the boys. Both Hidden and Wayward pines are feature films so they have developed their writing to fit a TV series which so far, has been going quite well for them. They don't often stray from the horror/ Sci-Fi genre (Hidden being an apocalyptic horror and Wayward Pines being a psychological horror/ thriller TV series) they tend to specialise in delivering a dark and scary cinematic experience. I personally chose this screen writing duo because of their skill at perfecting the language and mannerism's used by the kids in Stranger Things, especially in the first episode where it opens with them playing Dungeons and Dragons. I wanted to try and incorporate their style of portraying the personality of a kid of similar age to the ones in stranger things for my character Seb.
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