Sorry for the lack of updatefulness. I warned y'all I'd be away for most of august. The season's change has come, and we're finally out of winter and into spring. It is now September. I'll spare you any poetry about spring, as that'd be kind of pointless for a blog about making a movie... Now, I mentioned last time that I'd send the second draft out to my group of readers. None of whom have finished reading it yet. Hopefully soon. Some are part way through, and other's I haven't heard from in a while.
So in the meantime, I'm using my time in other areas of working on the movie. My plans for September include working on some costume stuff. Getting experience in filming and editing. (I've got a few mini film projects to get myself some experience before shooting the movie itself.) Casting. Writing the plan for the teaser trailer. Location scouting, and hopefully even storyboarding. Also want to make the MOP logo animation thing. Lots to do! Quite excited.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
5th of August, 2011 - BOOYEAH!
Wasn't that post title awesome? Yeah, admit it. It was. I'm excited. Finished the second draft of The Archer's Fable. It's 19 pages longer than the first draft, coming in for a total of 126 pages. I actually finished the second draft on the third, but wanted to do a script read through before I sent it out to my readers and posted here celebrating like a crazy person. Just finished the read through at 11:30 PM. I'm getting on an airplane tomorrow at mid day. Gotta get up early and pack... My alarm is set for 7 AM. Hopefully I won't forget anything! But YAY! Second draft is DONE! Just a quick post.
Oh, another mini-note on the story writing front of Bowstring... One of the characters has started writing a Journal. Heh-heh, yep. A few days back they told me they wanted to keep a journal, and I sitting, thinking to myself. "But I'm meant to be editing write now, not jotting down fictional years of a character's life from several years ago! Why is that relevant?" Turn's out it's not relevant for NOW in the script, as in TAF... But it'll be relevant later. And I can't say WHO'S journal is is, or any more than what I have already without spoiling it. But yeah, funny little thing that came up.
Readers (My Mum, Dannflow, FM, FM's younger brother, Tippie, Kitty and now, Gala. Welcome aboard.), check your inbox please. You should have a shiny email with a script attached to it. How exciting! I'm off to bed before hoping on the plane. (6th-17th, and the 24th-28th, I'll be away. Just a reminder.)
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Oh, another mini-note on the story writing front of Bowstring... One of the characters has started writing a Journal. Heh-heh, yep. A few days back they told me they wanted to keep a journal, and I sitting, thinking to myself. "But I'm meant to be editing write now, not jotting down fictional years of a character's life from several years ago! Why is that relevant?" Turn's out it's not relevant for NOW in the script, as in TAF... But it'll be relevant later. And I can't say WHO'S journal is is, or any more than what I have already without spoiling it. But yeah, funny little thing that came up.
Readers (My Mum, Dannflow, FM, FM's younger brother, Tippie, Kitty and now, Gala. Welcome aboard.), check your inbox please. You should have a shiny email with a script attached to it. How exciting! I'm off to bed before hoping on the plane. (6th-17th, and the 24th-28th, I'll be away. Just a reminder.)
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Thursday, July 28, 2011
28th of July, 2011 - Just a quick update
Sorry it's been a while. Editing, y'know. I've got 69 pages done, and the total page count thus far has increased to 119 pages. So it's pretty safe to assume that it'll get over 120 pages, I'd think... But yeah. To warn ahead of time, I don't know how much I'll be posting in August, as I'll be busy/away allot. I will be working on Bowstring while I can, you just won't get as many updates so frequently as previous months. Lots of Traveling in August. Just thought I'd say so you don't all think I've let the blog die or something like that. Hopefully post again before I'm off.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
19th of July, 2011 - More editing...
Went up north to my family's new holiday home. Pretty cool up there. I took my netbook computer so I could get some editing done. Act 2A is now in second draft! Hooray! That's 48 pages so far. Also while I was away I FINALLY started working on a locations list so that I know what I'll need... Locations for two Ranger assemblies (got one picked already.), four lots of fields, two forests (technically one forest, but two parts of it), four villages/towns- (good luck me), a cabin, stables, and an inn (good luck again me with finding things period-fitting.), then the castle gardens, courtyard and courtroom... some marshes (Though we know where we want to do that), a bridge (hopefully by some fields?) and then three locations I've vaguely marked as 'various', as their locations aren't so important... (I've found one I wanna use as 'various'.)
So I've got three locations sorta vaguely picked, and ideas for a few others, so it's a start. :) Maybe I'll post pictures sometime when I've got more location scouting done. That'd be a neat thing to do... Oh! So also, I've made a list for casting to keep track of who's acting who. Anddddd I've started a list of ideas for promotional stuff todo with teh movie for when it nears release. You can never have to many promotional ideas. They include things like Cosplay (Costume Play) stunts, vlogging things and some random funny misc-video stuff related to Bowstring. They make me grin just thinking of them, so hopefully they'll work well. But that's it for this update!
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
So I've got three locations sorta vaguely picked, and ideas for a few others, so it's a start. :) Maybe I'll post pictures sometime when I've got more location scouting done. That'd be a neat thing to do... Oh! So also, I've made a list for casting to keep track of who's acting who. Anddddd I've started a list of ideas for promotional stuff todo with teh movie for when it nears release. You can never have to many promotional ideas. They include things like Cosplay (Costume Play) stunts, vlogging things and some random funny misc-video stuff related to Bowstring. They make me grin just thinking of them, so hopefully they'll work well. But that's it for this update!
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
Saturday, July 16, 2011
16th of July, 2011 - Editing is my weak point
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
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
Monday, July 11, 2011
11th of July, 2011 - Second Draft
So here I am sitting with 21 pages of the second draft done. Editing has always been my weak point. I just seem to have a hard time concentrating. Before anyone says anything, I don't think it's writer's block; had that before and this is different. I'm just easily distracted. Hehe. But hey, I'm on scene 15 of 48. So that's 33 more scenes to go. Not too bad. Not exactly one fifth, but almost'ish. Through editing the page numbers keep on changing... Heh. Just thougth I'd let y'all know where I'm at.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
6th of July, 2011 - The next phase!
I've had a week-long break now from Bowstring and haven't looked at the script in that time. It's time for the next phase; the second draft! Particularly this time going through, I'll be looking for the usual mistakes, and paying more attention to character actions so that people aren't just standing and talking. Not that they only stood and talked before- that'd be dumb. But it's tweaking and fine-tuning. I'll add another line to the Progress gadget thing saying where I'm at in the second draft. I love updating things like that. Hehe.
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
-Icey
Mountains of Parchment
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