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Pitch story ideas that capture "the human journey." Posted by Jim_Goldblum | JANUARY 5, 2011

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Here on Creation Studios we have some epic storylines currently in development. We have hackers and atomic physicists, gun-toting robbers and philandering football players. But sometimes the most exciting stories are the ones that capture the hidden power of our everyday life decisions. Who do we hook up with? Who do we break up with? What should we buy? Where should we move? What should we do next? 

 

So as we move towards the later episodes of Bar Karma Season 1, let's try to capture that human journey. 

 

Can you pitch an idea for a Bar Karma episode that reveals how small choices can set about great change?

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  • EdsDaMan7777
    EdsDaMan7777
    1 year ago
    We start off in a cheap motel room. A table slowly comes into view. A pink slip is seen on the table. Followed slowly by a picture of a smiling man, his smiling wife, and their smiling 10 year old daughter in between the two. A nearly empty bottle of Vodka is seen on the table. On the bed, we see the man from the photo hunched over with disheveled hair, and... more
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  • Veemon
    Veemon
    1 year ago
    A child enters the bar. She was separated from her parents somehow and has no idea where she is. What she does know is that she was chasing a balloon that is now also in the bar. Doug and the gang must find this girl's parents; who may have some controversies of their own.
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  • Tartan10
    Tartan10
    1 year ago
    A man resentfull of having grown up in foster care...

    one abusive home after the other.... all his life....

    Wants.... and needs to find his parents...

    He needs to know why they abandoned him...

    When his ex- partner takes off with another man....
    She fails to tell him she is pregnant.....with his son...

    Whilst the man is looking for his parents....
    His son is looking for him......

    The lad turns up at Bar Karma.....
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  • satellitelady
    satellitelady
    1 year ago
    Feeling lost and alone a woman contemplates suicide. She parks her car near a bridge and walks out onto it, climbs on the railing closes her eyes asks for forgiveness and jumps. Instead of hitting the water she is sitting in the middle of the bar floor soaking wet? Karma has stepped in, is she really alone, what of her family? She is shown choices, if she jumps theres a chance she will die or there is also a chance the fisherman on the shore will save her. If she chooses not to jump, she can go meet that fisherman, her future husband.
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  • bwhiteho
    bwhiteho
    1 year ago
    A man in his early-mid twenties walks into the Bar, looking around and taking everything in. He sits down at the bar and asks for a beer and a shot of whiskey. James asks, "What's the occaision?" "I just graduated from college," replies the man, with a wry smile.

    After some conversation, it comes out that the man... more
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  • satellitelady
    satellitelady
    1 year ago
    The man is seen sittting on a park bench, in his hand a paintbrush. He's in his mid 60's. His greatest love has been painting, he has just found out he has beginning Alzhiemers and knows he'd dream of being an artist is now over. Finally retired from his menial job it was his dream for retirement. He knows he has to tell his wife but doesn't quite know how. He believes life is over. Walking to the door of an cafe he opens it. James is smiling behind the bar. It's up to the three at the bar to help him. How? What would you do....
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  • Tartan10
    Tartan10
    1 year ago
    A person who has been dead for a long time...

    He has been wandering around with some unfinished business.....

    He stumbles upon the bar....

    He has been given the wrong Karma.....

    Being wrongly executed for something he didn't do.....

    How do you change that Karma.....

    When the inocent man is killed.............
    And the guilty man still walks free.....
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  • Cedric_Gore
    Cedric_Gore
    1 year ago
    Title: The Sped Arrow

    A hitman walks into a bar after a days work and is surprised to find that the “job” he just finished is now sitting at the bar and wants to buy him a drink.

    The “job” does not know he is dead, the hitman does not know how the man he killed hours ago is alive. The “job” is celebrating both his own birthday and his young son’s birthday which happens to be on the same day and he is excited about the surprise he has planned for his son. The hitman learns the value of life during his exchange with the man.
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  • Veemon
    Veemon
    1 year ago
    A homeless man enters the bar. He was once a famous musician, with #1 hits galore. Then, all those years of "Life in the Fast Lane" finally caught up with him and he lost it all. He enters the bar and buys a drink with his last dime. He wants a shot at redemption, but he's just a has-been.
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  • the_gouge
    the_gouge
    1 year ago
    A family is torn apart by disease. The mother has terminal cancer, the father has left due to inability to pay for health care and the daughter, who loves the mother dearly, has taken it upon herself to care for her mother.

    The mother, however, is continuing to amass a great debt on the daughter and is slowly ruining the daughter's life. This... more
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  • KSirys
    KSirys
    1 year ago
    A guy falls in love with a girl he has met over the phone. They meet two months later and realize they are meant for each other. Several months later when the guy decides to confront her family and tell them he loves her and wants to marry her, they tell him no, that her Armenian culture is not to be ruined. If they continue on this path, her brother will kill the... more
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  • KimmieC88
    KimmieC88
    1 year ago
    1988: 18 yr old girl graduates from high school and starts college. Her dream is to be a artist. Her family is poor, but she is able to get a Pell Grant to attend college. Into her second semester, her mother comes to her and tells her that her father has lost his job and she needs her to quit college and go back to work to help out with bills. This... more
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  • satellitelady
    satellitelady
    1 year ago
    Two people end up at the bar, together. They are a young married couple expectingtheir first child. They are homeless because they chose each other against family wishes. He was an engineer that worked at his fathers firm and was fired because of getting married. They have a choice, Go back to his family, or try and make it alone on the streets. What they don't know. His father has been searching for him to apologize.
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  • Notsocrazy
    Notsocrazy
    1 year ago
    Here's one that needs direction but will throw it out there. We're talking small changes.

    A child loses his/her dog. Ends up posting signs around the city and neighborhood. Wanders into the bar asking if it would be okay to post a sign in the window. Doug wondering what they can really do or if it is even a karmic intervention for them.... more
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  • Foosturbator
    Foosturbator
    1 year ago
    “To hell with eternal life!”
    The words echoed through my mind as the dream I just woke from slipped from my mind. Another recurring dream married with the feeling that I had figured out the ultimate truth I had been seeking for years. I had the truth behind reality…I knew it beyond a doubt. And then nothing. I lost every bit of... more
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  • RuthieofTexas
    RuthieofTexas
    1 year ago
    A man enters the bar celebrating a huge lottery win. After buying a round for the room, he is asked the rather obvious question of what he's going to do with the money, and he is baffled. All of the man's needs are met, and he has no desire for a life of hedonism. As a young man, he worked for a charity, and thinks he might give the money to... more
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  • the_gouge
    the_gouge
    1 year ago
    A young, athletic looking Grecian man strides confidently into the bar in a toga. He seems humble in nature, yet is diametrically opposed to the Roman people.

    He sits at the bar and asks for a quart of the barkeep's finest Grecian Wine. James says that the closest he has is Roman. The young man spits on the floor and exclaims "Vile... more
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  • A person is in the middle of a delicate Career Change decision, that can cause either:

    (1) a certain breakdown (regression) related to most positive things this person has accomplished in life
    (2) leave things almost as they currently are, basically keeping the "status quo (inertia) of this person's life.
    (3) a... more
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  • Veemon
    Veemon
    1 year ago
    An Indian-American teenage girl enters the bar. She's just been placed in an arranged marriage but does not love the man she's been arranged to marry. In fact, he's somewhat barbaric and wants to deprive the girl of any chance at the modern American dream.
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  • amsine
    amsine
    1 year ago
    A young man has to report to jail in ten days for a DWI. He works nights at a small town supermarket and, after one particularly rough shift, went to his favorite bar and had a few too many. He has since lost his job, is late with the rent, and has decided to drink away his last paycheck at Bar Karma.
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