A little insight from last night into our naming process. We roll a Scattergories die and spitball....
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Clipping Along
Or shall I say galloping. We're on horseback rescuing the King! We are surprised at how tight the story is, and have diagnosed it as a byproduct of having to make quick decisions. We aren't leaving the time for "inspiration to strike" or a good story beat to present itself. We have to quickly … Continue reading Clipping Along
Good morning! Day 2!
Title and Logline!
Oh man, swashbucklers are fun. We've got our characters pulled (from devious handmaidens to dastardly ministers), our heroes named, and our vaguely Continental world (mostly) built. And we have a title and a log line! Title: The Lady Minerva Logline: When the young King of Livonia is kidnapped, a dashing noblewoman sets out to rescue him. Pretty … Continue reading Title and Logline!
Update
JK, not an update, just a quick little GUYS WE'RE WRITING A SWASHBUCKLER I'M SO EXCITED. That's all. (This is Forrest, obviously. Abigail's doing real work and uploading our next vid.)
Picking Our Heroine!
Settings!
Pulling Genre 2(B)!
A Question of Genre
So our last MIAW went pretty poorly. It went poorly because we pulled a genre that we weren't interested in, that we didn't know well, and that we didn't like. We fulfilled the terms of the experiment and wrote the damn thing, because we're obstinate, but it wasn't fun -- and the script suffered for it. … Continue reading A Question of Genre
Film 37: Modern Times
Modern Times (1936) dir. Charlie Chaplin. USA. So it goes, and mighty pleasantly, too, with Charlie keeping faith with his old public by bringing back the tricks he used so well when the cinema was very young, and by extending his following among the moderns by employing devices new to the clown dynasty. If you need … Continue reading Film 37: Modern Times
Movie in a Weekend 