Direction Unit- Idea/research

For research i have been watching a lot of episodes of Desperate Housewives and have been thinking about how the show is so so glamourous. The thing that i thought i would be able to do is make it less glamourous. But not so much so that it ends up seeming like i have turned it into a comedy sketch.

Wisteria Lane

Bree Van Der Kamp

For example i wouldn't want to take it from the glossy and glamourous street of Wisteria lane (above) and then change it to the complete opposite which would be a run down, grimy council estate. Another example would be taking one of the many glamourous characters from Desperate Housewives, and replacing them with the complete opposite, which could be a unclean, dirty woman. 

So to stop this from happening I would just make simple changes that can be noticed but don't take it so far that you can't figure out what the programme i choose was in the first place. I had an idea that i would use the basis of a womens book club and that 4 or 5 women meet up to discuss books at a library or one of their houses and intend to talk about the book they have been reading but instead they end up bitching and gossiping. I will do more research into other ideas before i settle on this one for definate.