Inspiration for... Rico's Workout Sketch

Inspiration and ideas can come from the most unusual places, like in a dream, watching a movie or you could even come up with ideas whilst on the toilet! The inspiration for this sketch came from a random source and almost completely by accident. It actually came from the THE3200 Contemporary Television Drama module whilst messing around with some shots we had taken for our final project.

Being on the editing team for the TV project, I decided to create an outtakes video including all of the discarded shots that contained errors, forgotten lines and general messing around. One sequence in our film was several shots of the main character, played by Aaron Lampard, exercising rigorously. After collecting these shots, I decided to merge them together with some dialogue that I quite literally made up on the spot and created an exercise video. The result was Aaron's workout, a DVD containing a workout routine that was guaranteed to loose you at least two dress sizes!

After showing the video and receiving a positive reaction from the TV group, I decided to change the dialogue around slightly, re-film the exercise routines with me in the place of Aaron and make the overall workout more pathetic for comical effect. The result was Rico's Workout! An idea that occurred from complete tom foolery and was almost improvised on the spot!