The basic Hollywood comedy has a budget of minimum $20million. I guess in Australia it would be $6 million tops.
In most cases I don't even think along those lines . I think cheap cheap cheap.
My script will be 90 -100 pages and hopefully the finished product will be 90 minutes tops. It will be tighter an funnier.
My protagonist is usually male, some variation of myself.
In most cases the story is about a guy in a fix trying to get of the fix. Sometimes the situation is usually caused by the protagonist being an idiot in the first place.
For the film to be a success you have to come up with 6 big sight gags or sight gag scenes. A film with a budget of $20 million can have a box office of $150 million with 6 good sight gag scenes.
In some of my scripts there is a MacGuffin, which is chasing something which is unattainable. I say that because some of the scripts are about a scam.
In my scripts you have a beginning and end and what happens in to get to that end can be a pile nonsense. I don't write romantic comedies which need a proper story.
I find a need to write in a few off the wall comedy scenes.
Have some kind of comedy music scene.
I like the idea of wacky cameos from name comedians.
As many one liners as you can think of.
So we start of with a quest and in that last scene we reach the quest.
That's about it.
