exposition
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,…
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 MoreSequence – Act V
Another Hero’s journey, to negotiate peace between twin DOGs. Digging up his cache in the forest, raising the machine beast with block and tackle, riding to a remote mountain top…
Read MoreSequence – Act IV
C’mon baby, let’s do the twist, the plot twist. Joe didn’t know about the fusion of the boxes with mycelia… and we do. How things went horribly wrong and what’s he gonna do? He learns about the twinning and sets off to find out more.
Read MoreSequence – Act III
Uncle Joe plan’s to subvert the Great Plan seems to be complete. We’ve pastiched Netflix and television sitcoms, we’ve done the hero’s journey. What more story is there to tell? Everything has yet to go horribly wrong, until then, let’s wrap it up nice and neat. (Isn’t the passing road like film running through a…
Read MoreSequence – Act I
This doesn’t get more classic hero’s journey. A dead guy shows up and invites you to save the world. To be the mother of the Daughter of God. Because you can’t be God yourself, you silly sleeper, you’ve got to be all indirect and give birth to God, like that makes any sense. Anyway, OF…
Read MoreSequence – Introduction
Meeting the 5 or so main players and a slew of peripheral characters The People = A new way, cozy catastrophists. Hunter gatherers transcending amnesia with a kernal of gnosis, courtesy UJ and his cohorts. All learning or tutored – indoctrinated? Inoculated against future control. They seem free and happy, so they must be choosing…
Read MoreSequence – Prelude
What’s the job that the Prelude is doing? The delicious pull of intrigue. There’s a lot of mysteries and questions all at once, with enough of the mundane and familiar to cause a truly WTF moment. YOU WANT TO WATCH MORE.
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…
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