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Script Synopsis V3
V3 for I2 That’s Script Synopsis Version 3 for Screener Iteration 2. See Script Synopsis V2 for more elaborate descriptions of what each chunk is about. 03-11-19 Sequence – Prelude Why Prelude? Scene • If you could tell yourself something – Once Upon A Time this is a fairy tale, which implies the opposite, no…
Read MoreGod Tamers
There are a few delightful charlatans in the Science Fiction Musical Universe who are god tamers. They understand that the gods are a projection of our own desire for adventure and “other”. The gods are maya, beliefs incarnate. In a bar… “OF COURSE the gods exist. My brother was Golightly for the cruiser Sagromorph, they…
Read MoreRosie shoot and ideas for opening sequence
Here are notes from around the time Ada Bee was here and perhaps slightly earlier or slightly after. [10-31-14 – Notes on dressing Rosie before the shoot] Rosie ND on portholes reference photos day time morning 9-12, 2-4, 6-8 hanging pots, cookware plants tomato build screen doors and skylight practical lights, energize electrics battery inverter…
Read MoreChristina flashbacks
When she hears “this is your uncle joe” we get a crackly kid remembered version of her past. Sure she can be in it, because she’s seen pictures taken by the commando body guard, of joe entering, of her and joe in the cabin, of her and joe on the bed, nick nacks examined, spinning…
Read MoreThe long road home
It’s October 2014. A little over 9 years ago, I wrote the first draft of the script for Daughter of God at the Palm Springs short festival. The year before, I had stopped filing tax returns as an act of defiance of the military consumption imperial complex. I know this was silly, as I was still…
Read Moresurveillance pollen
The spiders or nano cameras are like tiny grains of pollen, once they drift into place they are static. What they lack in mobility they gain through sheer ubiquity. We are seeing the world through these cams, that’s why the shots are mostly static. Suggests and interesting treatment for stabilizing the hallway shot, and having…
Read MoreThe quest to master in AE
Export XMLs from extended version and reference movies, rebuild the timeline in AE, revise and complete comps, render out a test master. That’s the goal, to prove I can do what the Rebel DV guide suggested all those years ago, master in AE. As of today July 29, 2014, we can’t. Something is amiss somewhere…
Read MoreAllison Kraus
The American musical genres – bluegrass, country, jazz, broadway musicals, hip hop. I can’t remember the rest of the ideas, but bluegrass in science fiction musical is great. Thinking of Allison Kraus performance, so much more alive than say Bela Fleck with his string quartet, all reading from their scores.
Read MoreThe universe of boxes
June 14, 2014 mediatronic summary. A computational granule is a simple computer that can transmit, receive, process and store data, enclosed in a capsule that can either absorb or reflect energy, primarily electromagnetic (light) and to a lesser degree kinetic (pressure waves or sound). A surface becomes mediatronic when sprayed with computational granules suspended in…
Read Morerecent musings
The tech has reverted to earlier forms. Black and white images and crackly broadcasts. Another Dicksonian reference. This is the civilization gentle crash as orchestrated by ? where did everyone go? Later… I’m really enjoying these ads. The sheer meaningless of them is exhilarating, because actual ads are so perversely meaningless, to make meaningless adverts…
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