I Take Requests...
A few weeks ago at the Tuesday CE Meeting, Alex mentioned that he'd like to see/participate/help produce a big, sprawling 'space opera'. I chuckled, mentioned I had a few ideas in that venue (having grown up with Star Wars, Trek, and other assorted goodies), but that it'd be quite awhile before we could actually do anything about it.
Two weeks ago, we welcomed a new photographer to the gang, Erika, and she's got a strong portfolio and an eagerness to learn.
This morning, I was making a new playlist in iTunes, and came across a song I had not heard before...and I latched onto it immediately, reinterpreting its lyrics and...opened an Appleworks document.
By the time 5 minutes passed, I had a working outline of a new idea. It's got scope, promise, hope, pathos, death, love, war...everything. Told in 5 half-hour parts.
And it's a sprawling space epic, as big as the galaxy we live in. But somehow, it's completely doable. And it involves scores of photographs.
Best of all, it's a part-time project, something we can do pieces for in-between the bigger projects, which is great, as I've been casting about for just such a thing.
I'm going to give the Design Document over to the staff at this week's meeting and continue to develop it as quickly as I can.
Oh, it's good. I can't wait to begin scripting it, and I'll dish more about it in this blog, first, before any other posts are made, or even people outside of family hear about it.
I am literally goose-bumpy about this.
In other news, I'll be turning in the first-draft of the Combined Efforts 31st Annual Holiday Special script tomorrow. It turned out particularly funny, and rather biting humor at that. It's modular, so the final draft may have whole sections added or taken out, but it's pretty solid and stands well by itself in its current incarnation.
Not much else to report...the house is still without internet, so I make frequent-enough trips to the library, laptop in bag. If I'm a little tardy in responding to emails, that's why. (we should have a permanent solution in a week or two).
Take care, one and all, and I'll see you here next week at the very least!
Two weeks ago, we welcomed a new photographer to the gang, Erika, and she's got a strong portfolio and an eagerness to learn.
This morning, I was making a new playlist in iTunes, and came across a song I had not heard before...and I latched onto it immediately, reinterpreting its lyrics and...opened an Appleworks document.
By the time 5 minutes passed, I had a working outline of a new idea. It's got scope, promise, hope, pathos, death, love, war...everything. Told in 5 half-hour parts.
And it's a sprawling space epic, as big as the galaxy we live in. But somehow, it's completely doable. And it involves scores of photographs.
Best of all, it's a part-time project, something we can do pieces for in-between the bigger projects, which is great, as I've been casting about for just such a thing.
I'm going to give the Design Document over to the staff at this week's meeting and continue to develop it as quickly as I can.
Oh, it's good. I can't wait to begin scripting it, and I'll dish more about it in this blog, first, before any other posts are made, or even people outside of family hear about it.
I am literally goose-bumpy about this.
In other news, I'll be turning in the first-draft of the Combined Efforts 31st Annual Holiday Special script tomorrow. It turned out particularly funny, and rather biting humor at that. It's modular, so the final draft may have whole sections added or taken out, but it's pretty solid and stands well by itself in its current incarnation.
Not much else to report...the house is still without internet, so I make frequent-enough trips to the library, laptop in bag. If I'm a little tardy in responding to emails, that's why. (we should have a permanent solution in a week or two).
Take care, one and all, and I'll see you here next week at the very least!