Initial Idea

For this task we had to come up with a scene in which one character gives the other character some good or bad news.

My first idea is that a Doctor enters a patients room and tells him that he has some bad news.

He tells him that he is going to die and he has only got 2 days to live. The patient then breaks down and goes way over the top in his reaction.

The doctor then refers to the patient as Mr Smith and the patient tells the doctor that he is not Mr Smith. The doctor is very embarrassed by the mistake and tries to apologise and make a fast exit.

I think this idea is ok but it is not particularly funny. Also, when I started to write a rough script I realised that with all the setup for the scene, there was too much to fit in to the time given. Part of this scene was that the patient was going to be a flamboyant, artistic person and because of this, the humour in the scene was coming mostly from his over reaction which took a lot of dialogue and left very little time to get across the character of the doctor.