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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
31st of May, 2011 - Blog Redesign
Eh, so not much to say today. Didn't write anything new, but got feedback from a friend on the latest on the script (Hi Tippie.) and fixed an error on page 27 she noticed. Clever her. I'm listening to the credits music from the Portal games, totally unrelated, but they're funny. Em, so I've done some redesigning on the blog. Tweaked the template a bit. Colors and backgrounds, not much. Made three different backgrounds for the blog, trying to decide which one...
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Monday, May 30, 2011
30th of May, 2011 - Another read-through!
So I'm doing another read though since I'm at Act 2B. And it's a good thing I do them because I discovered a continuity error. Apparently I have two characters that have this ability to teleport and swap locations with one another? This only requires tweaking in one scene to fix it though, thankfully. But it was hilarious none the less, because I record myself reading, and you hear me go into this... dot dot dot... state. Totally crack up. Gonna keep on reading and then fix that. Andddddddddddd done. Read through came out to 57 minutes in total. Fixed the teleporting problem by changing a bit of dialog. Luckily for Edan, it meant he got a compliment! Aww, lucky him! But it's short-lived though of course. Heh, typical Galen.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Sunday, May 29, 2011
29th of May, 2011 - Eh...
Whoops, I forgot to return with another paragraph yesterday... Sorry! Got caught up writing. Really like Celtex. Especially the Index Card function. VERY handy. Coming up to the end of Act 2A. Just a couple more scenes. According to the page-a-minute rule, I should be at about 35 minutes at the moment, so that's good. About where I'd like to be. I can say though, from saying that I'm near the end of Act 2A, that something's going to happen. It's kind of to be expected that something will happen, though. Else it'd be boring. And some of you reading this probably already know what's going to happen, but there's a difference between saying it and doing it. There have been many variations of the saying over the years, but Mendel says: "Because words are one thing. Actions are another." Going to write more, then return.
Look! I returned for another paragraph! Just wrote another scene. I need tissues. Toilet paper is hard. It's a sad scene, evidently. And the next one is sad, too... And the ones after that, actually. Wow, isn't that sad of me? So much sadness. so very very sad. No, I'm not writing a Doctor Who episode for the Greek tragedy that is the tenth doctor. And no commenting with spoilers of Series 6 Doctor Who, or else Shadowleaf will hunt you down. I’m hoping to write at least one more scene. Actually, it's a scene I've written before, as it appears in Veil of Trees, but in a slightly different form. It's the end of an era in the world of Bowstring, story wise. You'll know why soon enough. This particular assassination is very key. Shall I explain? Alright.
Spoilers.
Anddddddddddddddd adding another paragraph even later. I've written some more scenes and have reaches Act 2B. Just thought I'd note that here. 43 pages now. 8 pages in one day, I'm pretty pleased with myself!
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Look! I returned for another paragraph! Just wrote another scene. I need tissues. Toilet paper is hard. It's a sad scene, evidently. And the next one is sad, too... And the ones after that, actually. Wow, isn't that sad of me? So much sadness. so very very sad. No, I'm not writing a Doctor Who episode for the Greek tragedy that is the tenth doctor. And no commenting with spoilers of Series 6 Doctor Who, or else Shadowleaf will hunt you down. I’m hoping to write at least one more scene. Actually, it's a scene I've written before, as it appears in Veil of Trees, but in a slightly different form. It's the end of an era in the world of Bowstring, story wise. You'll know why soon enough. This particular assassination is very key. Shall I explain? Alright.
Spoilers.
Anddddddddddddddd adding another paragraph even later. I've written some more scenes and have reaches Act 2B. Just thought I'd note that here. 43 pages now. 8 pages in one day, I'm pretty pleased with myself!
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Saturday, May 28, 2011
28h of May, 2011 - Celtex
Up until now I've been writing the scripts in Microsoft Word. I'm now giving Celtex a go. But before I play aroudn there and get awestruck, I'll let you know I wrote another scene last night, on a bridge. Oooh, yes. A Bridge. Nice, eh? Now I'm gonna go fiddle about. I'll return in the next paragraph.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Thursday, May 26, 2011
26th of May, 2011 - Why am I up at this hour?
So it's 11:29 PM... Thursday evening- though I should say night. I just finished up a couple more scenes. And I gotta say, they were awesome (In my humble opinion... which probably didn't sound so humble.) And they were actually quite important scenes. Exciting stuff. Poor Iven probably felt like a bit of the third wheel though. Oh well, he's meant to then. But yes, not only were these scenes important and exciting, they were sad too. I was kinda... crying... I admit. I think I need to add a bit more in before them though, because having a big thing like that I just felt was a bit soon. Although it's about 25% in, we'll see...
I'll probably do a full script read through tomorrow. It's always a good thing to go through and read what you've written. I usually record it when I do this too. It helps gage time, speed and feel. If someone's gonna watch a movie, they're not going to pause every second scene, come back the next day, watch another couple scenes and so on. So yeah, checking the script constantly that way helps a ton for clarity and continuity. It'll let me know if I need to add a bit more in before, if I'm on target, or actually running a bit slow. Dannflow accuses me of being slow most of the time. Oh well. Good night.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
25h of May, 2011 - Finding the plot
Hi again, Icey here... I think I'll scrap the greeting next time, because you know it's me posting... And I always say it's me at the bottom anyway.
I thought I should mention that I write by the seat of the pants (or skirt, depending what I'm wearing.) style... Mostly. I do have a vague sort of idea where I'm going, but not really. Most things I write are thought up on the spot, and edited later. So I'm about 18 pages into the script, and soon coming up on the time for a good plot-twist. But what's gonna happen? What should I do next? A blank page can beckon creativity, or a mocking rebellion of nothingness... Can nothingness even rebel? Oh well, I guess it can, because at the moment it is. I know Mendel and John are heading south east at the moment, and so is Iven. (Iven's another Ranger.) And Iven's gonna catch up with them probably in Taesh. Then I've got to employ my twist, but I need a reason. And it should have something to do with Edan, I suspect. It's most viable... but we'll see. Spoilers. Oh, I should also mention that since yesterday, I've written two more scenes. And I've re-drawn the map, this time in color. Map-drawing helps me think for some reason... I guess I like some form of direction.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
I thought I should mention that I write by the seat of the pants (or skirt, depending what I'm wearing.) style... Mostly. I do have a vague sort of idea where I'm going, but not really. Most things I write are thought up on the spot, and edited later. So I'm about 18 pages into the script, and soon coming up on the time for a good plot-twist. But what's gonna happen? What should I do next? A blank page can beckon creativity, or a mocking rebellion of nothingness... Can nothingness even rebel? Oh well, I guess it can, because at the moment it is. I know Mendel and John are heading south east at the moment, and so is Iven. (Iven's another Ranger.) And Iven's gonna catch up with them probably in Taesh. Then I've got to employ my twist, but I need a reason. And it should have something to do with Edan, I suspect. It's most viable... but we'll see. Spoilers. Oh, I should also mention that since yesterday, I've written two more scenes. And I've re-drawn the map, this time in color. Map-drawing helps me think for some reason... I guess I like some form of direction.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
24th of May, 2011 - Where'd I go?
Hi, Icey here.
So I've written a bit more on the script, only a couple scenes, but at least that's something. I particularly like the recent developments in the latest part; it's quite interesting for John's character development. So that's pretty good. The reason there's so much time between this post and my last is because I had my birthday party in that time. (Doctor Who party on the 21st of May, perfect timing. My actual birthday was the 12th.) So other news since then; talking to Dannflow a few days ago, he hopes we can be filming in the summer holidays later this year. It's almost winter at the moment.
And just thinking at the moment... An interesting conflict in The Archer's Fable; I want to have John learn a particular lesson (he's a bit... how shall I say it? Vengeful, at the start. Not hard-core though, thankfully.) And he's so going to learn by the end, but I expect the movie to have a somewhat tragic ending. Never did I think I would see the day that I wrote a story where the bad guys won. Now although it's only the beginning of the saga, and there's a second movie planned to improve the situation, those that only see the first movie I'm worried will get the impression that being bad will get your way, and being good will hurt you in the end. This is not true in the long run, but I'm concerned it will come across that way... An predicament for me then, who's going to have a character learn a lesson, only then to feel great loss. Though it's true that in doing the right thing, things aren't always easy, I need a way to offset the balance, or else it'll be really dark.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
So I've written a bit more on the script, only a couple scenes, but at least that's something. I particularly like the recent developments in the latest part; it's quite interesting for John's character development. So that's pretty good. The reason there's so much time between this post and my last is because I had my birthday party in that time. (Doctor Who party on the 21st of May, perfect timing. My actual birthday was the 12th.) So other news since then; talking to Dannflow a few days ago, he hopes we can be filming in the summer holidays later this year. It's almost winter at the moment.
And just thinking at the moment... An interesting conflict in The Archer's Fable; I want to have John learn a particular lesson (he's a bit... how shall I say it? Vengeful, at the start. Not hard-core though, thankfully.) And he's so going to learn by the end, but I expect the movie to have a somewhat tragic ending. Never did I think I would see the day that I wrote a story where the bad guys won. Now although it's only the beginning of the saga, and there's a second movie planned to improve the situation, those that only see the first movie I'm worried will get the impression that being bad will get your way, and being good will hurt you in the end. This is not true in the long run, but I'm concerned it will come across that way... An predicament for me then, who's going to have a character learn a lesson, only then to feel great loss. Though it's true that in doing the right thing, things aren't always easy, I need a way to offset the balance, or else it'll be really dark.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
17th of May 2011 - Writing!
Everyone hey, here Icey!
Look, a different greeting! Amazing, isn't it? Meh. So, since we're closest to working on filming "The Archer's Fable", figured it'd be logical to change my writing focus to that at the moment. I've got about 7 and a half pages done, so that's about seven minutes of screen time. the intro works quite well I think for introducing John and Mendel's characters. I'll try not to give much away, since I still want you to watch the movie. At the moment, John and Mendel are having a rest altering being chased out of Guanda by a group of angry villagers, who misunderstood something. Typical masses of people. Individually, you often think that it's dumb, but if you're in a group, people don't tend to think so much for themselves. Just a general observation. Kinda like peer pressure; people can do some pretty crazy and stupid things. Maybe they found John's L&P stash, I dunno. For the record, L&P isn't bad stuff, it's awesome. Dannflow (acting John) just happens to have loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads of it... Did I mention he has a lot? Anyway, so they've just been chased, and I'm writing... Though I'm about to go to piano practice. (Only practiced... three times this week, and only once did I do scales. Bad me!) I might add more to this post later in the day. We'll see. *returns* I also wrote a couple more back stories today, so that's good!
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Look, a different greeting! Amazing, isn't it? Meh. So, since we're closest to working on filming "The Archer's Fable", figured it'd be logical to change my writing focus to that at the moment. I've got about 7 and a half pages done, so that's about seven minutes of screen time. the intro works quite well I think for introducing John and Mendel's characters. I'll try not to give much away, since I still want you to watch the movie. At the moment, John and Mendel are having a rest altering being chased out of Guanda by a group of angry villagers, who misunderstood something. Typical masses of people. Individually, you often think that it's dumb, but if you're in a group, people don't tend to think so much for themselves. Just a general observation. Kinda like peer pressure; people can do some pretty crazy and stupid things. Maybe they found John's L&P stash, I dunno. For the record, L&P isn't bad stuff, it's awesome. Dannflow (acting John) just happens to have loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads of it... Did I mention he has a lot? Anyway, so they've just been chased, and I'm writing... Though I'm about to go to piano practice. (Only practiced... three times this week, and only once did I do scales. Bad me!) I might add more to this post later in the day. We'll see. *returns* I also wrote a couple more back stories today, so that's good!
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
16th of May, 2011 - Graphics
Hey again, Icey here.
Didn't work on the script today, but I tried my hand at title-graphic making. In yesterday's post, I mentioned that we FINALLY came up with titles. (Still haven't gotten confirmation from Foley Man and Dannflow, as my internet has been down all day.) So today I had a little play around with fonts, and settled on Papyrus, which I then modified a little, moving the 'owstring' in "Bowstring" up a few pixals, since the bottom of the B is really wide. Actually, the B looked a bit like a bow, and the hook of the g, looked like a target. It's perfect really, so I drew an arrow underlining the 'Strin'. Looks awesome, and you'll be able to see it bellow. Under the arrow, where I still had a bit of the gap since the arrow fired form the middle of the B-bow, I put the individual movie titles. "The Archer's Fable", "Veil of Trees" and "A Shadow Trail". Around the titles, I put a glow, then whipped up a camo texture for it. And THEN for each title, I made them different color schemes. "The Archer's Fable" is mottled brown for the glow with dulled gold text. "Veil of Trees" has a mottled green glow with bronzy/redish brown text. "A Shadow Trail" has mottled blue glow with silver/grey text. They all look rather awesome. Check them out below!
(Low Resolution) The Archer's Fable - Veil of Trees - A Shadow Trail
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Didn't work on the script today, but I tried my hand at title-graphic making. In yesterday's post, I mentioned that we FINALLY came up with titles. (Still haven't gotten confirmation from Foley Man and Dannflow, as my internet has been down all day.) So today I had a little play around with fonts, and settled on Papyrus, which I then modified a little, moving the 'owstring' in "Bowstring" up a few pixals, since the bottom of the B is really wide. Actually, the B looked a bit like a bow, and the hook of the g, looked like a target. It's perfect really, so I drew an arrow underlining the 'Strin'. Looks awesome, and you'll be able to see it bellow. Under the arrow, where I still had a bit of the gap since the arrow fired form the middle of the B-bow, I put the individual movie titles. "The Archer's Fable", "Veil of Trees" and "A Shadow Trail". Around the titles, I put a glow, then whipped up a camo texture for it. And THEN for each title, I made them different color schemes. "The Archer's Fable" is mottled brown for the glow with dulled gold text. "Veil of Trees" has a mottled green glow with bronzy/redish brown text. "A Shadow Trail" has mottled blue glow with silver/grey text. They all look rather awesome. Check them out below!
(Low Resolution) The Archer's Fable - Veil of Trees - A Shadow Trail
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Monday, May 16, 2011
15th of May, 2011 - Titles at last!
Hey everyone, Icey here!
Some friends and I started a project a while back, which has been unnamed until recently- recently being a couple hours ago. The project is called "Bowstring", and it's a movie. (It'll probably end up as movie series, or saga if you like.) So, my friends and I, (I'll call them Foley Man and Dannflow for now, as I have yet to ask them if I can call them otherwise on here.) have been working on Bowstring for a couple months now. When I say that of course, since we're in the early script writing stage, I guess mostly I've been working on it. They've been giving me feedback, and we've discussed ideas about a few things in the movie. Here's something that'll seem a bit strange though, probably: I'm writing the movies out of order. Two, one, three... and then we'll see what happens from there. At least Star Wars followed SOME order!
I guess I would probably explain what Bowstring is... The story's basis is in Fantasy/Medieval-styled Fiction. It's party inspired by a few things. Australian author John Flanagan's "Ranger's Apprentice" book series, and BBC's "Robin Hood" Television series. (I highly recommend both. Generally at least 11) The second movie in Bowstring, I've written most of the first draft script for. It's mostly about the characters Caleb and John. Both are Rangers, a group of people who's skill with a bow is renown, and who's skill in undetected movement is remarkable. They help keep law in the land, but unfortunately, a few years prior to the majority of the story, an assassin has killed the King. Galen, the assassin-now-king, has driven the Rangers into hiding while he exploits the country's resources to hunt the Rangers and get his revenge. Caleb, John, and a few other characters form a small rebellion against Galen, and plan to restore the throne back to the royal family- which by now is mostly dead. (They're slightly alive! All dead, only one thing you can do. Go through their clothes and look for loose change.) Ooo, parenthesizes! (Killing characters; that seems it happen a lot in stories/movies, doesn't it? I have friends who when their story gets boring, they just kill a character. Ahhh, plot development. Now THAT'S progress.)
So I'm keeping this blog because- well, if this project gets up and running, it might be useful for future reference, and maybe other people will be encouraged to write scripts and make movies too. I should note, we're a bunch of kids really, and we all have our crazy moments. Just wait 'till you see the bloopers... Heh.
Soooo, you'd probably like to hear the titles we came up with- hopefully Foley Man approves them. -And Dannflow for the last one too, since I didn't get to discuss that one with him.
Bowstring - The Archer's Fable
Bowstring - Veil of Trees
Bowstring - A Shadow Trail
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Some friends and I started a project a while back, which has been unnamed until recently- recently being a couple hours ago. The project is called "Bowstring", and it's a movie. (It'll probably end up as movie series, or saga if you like.) So, my friends and I, (I'll call them Foley Man and Dannflow for now, as I have yet to ask them if I can call them otherwise on here.) have been working on Bowstring for a couple months now. When I say that of course, since we're in the early script writing stage, I guess mostly I've been working on it. They've been giving me feedback, and we've discussed ideas about a few things in the movie. Here's something that'll seem a bit strange though, probably: I'm writing the movies out of order. Two, one, three... and then we'll see what happens from there. At least Star Wars followed SOME order!
I guess I would probably explain what Bowstring is... The story's basis is in Fantasy/Medieval-styled Fiction. It's party inspired by a few things. Australian author John Flanagan's "Ranger's Apprentice" book series, and BBC's "Robin Hood" Television series. (I highly recommend both. Generally at least 11) The second movie in Bowstring, I've written most of the first draft script for. It's mostly about the characters Caleb and John. Both are Rangers, a group of people who's skill with a bow is renown, and who's skill in undetected movement is remarkable. They help keep law in the land, but unfortunately, a few years prior to the majority of the story, an assassin has killed the King. Galen, the assassin-now-king, has driven the Rangers into hiding while he exploits the country's resources to hunt the Rangers and get his revenge. Caleb, John, and a few other characters form a small rebellion against Galen, and plan to restore the throne back to the royal family- which by now is mostly dead. (They're slightly alive! All dead, only one thing you can do. Go through their clothes and look for loose change.) Ooo, parenthesizes! (Killing characters; that seems it happen a lot in stories/movies, doesn't it? I have friends who when their story gets boring, they just kill a character. Ahhh, plot development. Now THAT'S progress.)
So I'm keeping this blog because- well, if this project gets up and running, it might be useful for future reference, and maybe other people will be encouraged to write scripts and make movies too. I should note, we're a bunch of kids really, and we all have our crazy moments. Just wait 'till you see the bloopers... Heh.
Soooo, you'd probably like to hear the titles we came up with- hopefully Foley Man approves them. -And Dannflow for the last one too, since I didn't get to discuss that one with him.
Bowstring - The Archer's Fable
Bowstring - Veil of Trees
Bowstring - A Shadow Trail
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
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