BJ&Box Act 1 Polishing Notes

(2)  Use game board, introduce “Pedestrian” on board, “Start” and “Finish” represented by racing flags.   (3)  Come up with a way to represent “Contrasty”   (6)  Introduce “Tardybear” somehow. Introduce idea of end images breaking apart when She says “No”.   (9)  “Thinking out loud over here”—B.J.’s thought bubbles pop and Gerry’s cabin appears…

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She Box References

Links Backstory Dan reading an overview of the entire story as of October 4, 2019. https://vimeo.com/364408247 starts at 13:30 What Dan read. https://why.movie/2019/10/04/extended-elevator/ Melonie and I talking. https://vimeo.com/365853029 First meeting of She Box Artists – Melonie, Dan and Joe with link to transcript. https://dog.movie/podcast/daughter-of-godcast-eleven-eleven/ Language Development Current sketches for ACT 1 of Buffalo Joe and…

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046 [You win!] Most recent content… “You win!” chalice in the sky as holy grail from Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” but the idea was seeded at meeting to make the chalice a kline bottle instead if this were the case I could see the daughter of god emerging as a jinn from the lamp and…

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045 [Hmm. That question doesn’t really parse. Still 1.] Are you… her? Most recent content… apples & oranges illustrator detail – very simple. hmm that question doesn’t really parse. apples and oranges – I thought it maybe fun to combine the two into one fruit to make it even more ambiguous like a hint from…

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042 [Veronique. We have never communed with her as we are communing with you, no. 3.] Do you know the yin twin? Most recent content…   “…communed with…” as taking communion in the catholic sense of eating the sacrament or Eucharist (Body and blood of god) fun to play with here the (cracker) Eucharist could…

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036 [They recently learned of our existence. Yes. 7.] Is that why boxes have been burned? Are the Clique burning the boxes? Most recent content… “They recently learned of our existence, yes.” (top left) Kubrick, Eye’s Wide Shut reference, clique as masked power elite in a weird cult bent on secrecy. Tom Cruise takes off…

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Keep on Top – Intro As we reach out for She Box’s language, two forks. 1) visualizing existing dialogue and 2) discovering what a wild image might mean, imply, suggest. A wild image is an intriguing visual idea that may not have an immediate match to existing dialogue. Wild images are captured and explained here.…

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008 [You’ll never in a million years guess.] Hey, who said anything about taunting! Most recent content… “… million years guess”, nautilus (as growth, spiral of time) with great year (precessional calendar) symbol below forms an abstract (?) question mark. “taunting”, Monty Python’s Holy Grail reference, the Frenchman taunts King Arthur from atop a castle…

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009 [Which end of the stick are you grabbing?] Thinking out loud over here. So… We’ve never met, you’re not of the Clique nor are you some tentacled horror from the trippy realms. You’re clearly virtuosic and… kind of trickstery. Most recent content… “We’ve never met”=she flashes childlike memory of seeing Joe from Gerry’s cabin.…

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010 [We are expressing appreciation for such acute perception. Celebrating!] Wait a minute. Your use of the pronoun ‘We’. Next question. We. Does your use of we refer to you and me? Most recent content… “expressing appreciation” – thumbs up! “such acute perception” was imagining an animated sequence of equilateral triangle with dashed arched lines…

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