The Agency

I came across these this morning and thought they'd be worth a look. This was a TV series created by Emmett Scanlan that he approached me to direct a few years ago for Storyland.

First, we made a thirty second pitch (above). We were fortunate enough to be selected for an interview, so we shot a few character scenes to clarify the style of the comedy and delivery since Emmett would be in the US shooting MTV series The Phone when we were scheduled to interview and we figured his presence would be missed.

Though the clip is deliberately short, we shot about half an hour of material, which was a lot of fun. Emmett and I worked together first on a feature film I directed in fits and spurts between 2004 and 2007 and The Agency was going to be made in that style; with a carefully developed script, heavily embellished with improvisation.

Sadly, we didn't get selected (though another series I pitched did), but Emmett came on board for the first Half a Giraffe sketch a couple of years later.