As mentioned before, editing really is my weak-point. I can read the script over and over for read throughs, but for some reason, I just have a hard time editing... It's quite frustrating. Music helps. Haven't been listening to enough music lately- or if I have, it hasn't had enough variety. I should do that more...
So, what I didn't mention in my last blogpost is another thing I was working on in regards to Bowstring, is working on a character design. I'm aware we have, like- no budget, so the film will be made on whatever people are willing to contribute, but I wanted to go ahead design this... I was working on Shadowleaf, and I decided to call my little session: "Planning Awesomeness". Pretty epic title for a planning session by yourself, eh? So I worked on things from colors and outfits, to weapons and practicality.
Generally different types of characters achieve "awesome" in different ways. The Sheriff of Nottingham (BBC's Robin Hood) was awesome because as a baddie. He really didn't have any issues with dispatching of random civilians, or hanging people/cutting out tongues; it was all fitting to his character. In fact, in his extremity and how he was portrayed as such so perfectly, added to his awesome factor. Don't get me wrong, hanging people and cutting out tongues is bad; don't do that, okay? But that's who the Sheriff is. He'd give the orders as this epic boss dude, and watch his guards do the dirty work- though occasionally doing some of said work himself -while he enjoyed his 'poetry of pain', ... I'm getting to into this, aren't I?
Moving on... Let's pick a good character for comparison this time, eh? Lemme think about that for a moment... Thinking... Thinking... Thinking... Let's stick with BBC Robin Hood, since that show is awesome. Marian. Hopefully without spoilers, she's awesome for her correctness. She's not a dumb damsel in distress, but she doesn't try too hard to be tough either. For a longggggggg time, she had the Sheriff and Guy fooled with her brilliantly tactical words, finding every loophole in a seemingly incriminating conversation. She'd leave just enough bait for Guy and the Sheriff to fall for some of hers ploys without landing in hot water. Now, sometimes her cleverness can be annoying too, but there's mostly a lot of win and genius with Marian. She is awesome; Robin's lucky to have a spy like her on his side. But enough Robin Hood now, even though it's awesome in general.
WARNING: Too much awesome can be lethal. If you are awesome, make sure you can control your awesomeness so you don't accidentally kill people with it. And don't nod at birds either, that's dangerous too. Back to Bowstring. Hopefully we'll have some "awesome" characters.
Updated the progress thingy. Up to 32 Pages! Hooray! I should really work on editing more... It's just getting into it that I have a hard time with. Once I do actually get going, I make a fair amount of progress. I got 11 pages done tonight... More than most other times. But I should call it a night. Hopefully get some more done tomorrow... Without procrastination. (No offense Pony-la, I do quite enjoy perusing ProcrastiNation, but it's very distracting when you're writing to work on a project.) Heehee.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
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