1.3 script
Exposition isn’t talking
Story comes from actions, characters opinions about things (training, past experience, their acceptance or rejection of norms), observations of the environment, interactions with others both friendly and antagonistic. Stories are basically the experience of characters, whether we are supposed to resonate or feel discord. A character who we cannot fathom, whose motivations don’t make sense,…
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Yesterday wasn’t such a long time ago, or maybe tomorrow. When and where, once upon a spacetime. Please keep your tray in the upright and locked position during takeoff. We invite you, nay compell you to enter the alternow, our allegorical theme park, Earth. Where divinity forgets herself and plays among the lapping waves, collecting…
Read MoreScene – Buffalo Joe and The BOX
April 28, 2019 Joe approaches, over the crest of a windy remote dune. The box is in the foreground, perhaps flashing AI atmospherics and mycelial data, musing to it’s selves. As Joe gets closer, perhaps a closed eye appears on the box, and then opens and blinks, as if the box is waking. Reverse perhaps…
Read MoreCollapsing Quantishly
Back to Christina as a Cathar devotee, cathartic. What other She pops bubbles and stuff in the cabin changes. She changes. Different women, body types, ages wearing the dress. EMK wearing the dress. Children. She is both choosing and touring possibilities. The images balloon out and pop. What other props do I have besides the…
Read MoreScript 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 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 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 Moresteam powered cell phones
Steam powered cell phones 04-24-14 This is a really fun idea, little whiffs coming from Christina (and maybe Eiji’s phone) and matching chau! chau! chau! on the soundtrack
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