Post 6 AKA A Swift Strike to the Hornets' ambitions

Another morning on the blog and once more I'm wiped out.
Feels like the start of a cold so I want to shake that as quickly as I can, so many of lemons and fluid for me. Maybe even some lemon fluid... That sounds promising.
It's also my two year anniversary with my girlfriend today but that's neither here nor there.

It has been a long week. I've had plenty of schoolwork to be handling alongside the project and it's starting to show that we all need to be chipping in equally, doing the hard yards when we need to. If only we all did.
I've been working on sound design concepts and throwing together reference/theme sheets, as well as giving my weekend to the round of auditions we put on, which was not particularly difficult, just looooong. But blisters on your feet just show that you've been walking I suppose, so I'm not worried about any fatigue or what have you.

I do need a coffee though. Maybe even 6.

As usual I don't know what to say in this thing, so it just sounds like I'm rambling on and on, not really going anywhere, but getting tired as I do. C'est la vie.

Coffee is in hand now. Happiness is rising. I'd be tempted to sit and watch the morning sky... if it wasn't so godawful. It's a good thing I like the colour grey.

Oh and I'll use this as a not to my future self in regards to sound: Don't try and shoehorn any kind of usic into the film just because you like it at the time, I have done well to resist the Velvet Underground influence so far so let's keep it that way...
...but If the shoe fits...

Post 5 AKA The Rolling Golem and the Gathered Care.

It's been busyyyyyy.

From last time I've updated we've basically established our core concept and first draft of the final script! Within the writing meetings we all bounced ideas off one another until we came out with something we found interesting as a cinematic and a game.
This is why it's handy to have so many gamers' involved, we've had experience watching game trailers as well as actually laying a game so that enables us to be more critical about the games representation. Speaking of games, all this talk about them gives me the urge to sit down with a shiny new RPG and waste my life, which happens to be one of my favourite things.

Playing games should provide the audience (if that's the right term) with a new experience, while still maintaining classical features and mechanics from past games. By this I mean having a brand new world & character, fighting with crazy new weapons, even having a critically important conversation with your buddy; these can be exciting and new, even if the formula has been done again and again.

In a sense it's just a new style of narrative, with more of an audience participation. In this regard it's a very unique experience as it allows the player to act as they wish, it's unlikely the action will play it in a strictly scripted nature. Though I do love the thought of a gritty war movie being interrupted by having the protagonist pop a squat on a vanquished enemy and begin tea-bagging, whilst shouting "Noob".
Saving Private Ryan would have been a much different film, but it also may have made it much, much better.

"Omg, you f***ing campers"

Now I don't want to say too much about the actual script or story at this stage, as I don't know what's apt to change in the coming pre-production phase, but what I do know is there is a particular feature that gets me excited: the Bone Cult.

My body is ready.

Post 4 AKA The Moth's Flight through the Storm

Morning and salutations and whatnot.

I have been occupied!
The work load is becoming heavier with all the work from other classes and so I must admit, I did briefly forget about my blog. It's still here though, not on fire or anything.

I currently write as I drink my morning coffee and gloss over notes before class, serving this as a more self-reflective time. The act of doing something with your morning cup of coffee adds a certain deliberation, "This is my coffee and this is my work; fear me!"

To that end coffee is proving to be useful, as usual. With long, often loud, meetings it helps to get caffeinated during, otherwise I may end up biting off a head. God help whoever opposes the AD.

The writing team, which  I am on, has begun the main story outlining for our project. By going for a mash-up of the two stories has provided a unique style and structure to the world, combining the post-apocalyptic with the old gods. The deep one be praised!

All hail the party god.

While it's still bare bones at the current time I have a strong feeling that by working on the themes and characters a bit more things will fall into place, just waiting for that key brainwave that makes everything 'click'.

In the mean time, I scribble down thoughts and try to feed my creativity. Not as much drawing for me, as there's not much need for my input in that field, but I do miss it. Maybe I could sketch out a Lovecraft-ian Children's Book based in our world... I'd read that. That'd be my ringtone.

Right, signing off now.

Toodles.

-Seth

P.S. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Post 3 AKA The Storm of Turgid Minds.

Tuning in again.

We've had a bit more of a productive week I feel. Plenty of  brainstorming and general juggling of ideas has gotten a good bulk of the crew getting hyped up for the project. By working together in these sessions it's provided an opportunity for more people to get excited about an idea rather than just one person.

I think that will be an important process for when then project concept is chosen, as excitement for an idea will probably result in more dedicated input. It's never easy giving up on an idea you may have liked and work on someone else's, but it's for the good of the project so I will be happy to work with everyone to provide something of value.

This also saw me realise how versatile our ideas can be.While we split into groups and discussed a few story & concept ideas I noticed that many features from the other ideas could all be incorporated. I think if things like that happen it will be better for morale, as everyone can feel like they've contributed and hold their head high.

I always feel so self righteous writing a blog.
I get sick of my own voice after a few lines.
But a job's a job I suppose.
I'm sure this will serve as useful revision if not anything else. Observing my thoughts might also be intriguing. Maybe I should keep a journal for my thoughts anyway, just for day-to-day use, that way when I forget something I can at least check what I forgot.