London Living

For my London blog, you can go here:

http://creartwriter3.blogspot.com/

It's a collection of school assignments (the 12 stages of a journey), culture shock stages, observations, stories that happen to me, and what I think about things on my trip. That blog doesn't replace this blog. It's a different subject matter. While that one focuses on my study abroad, this one will continue to update you on my projects.

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Here's a story outline for the movie I want to shoot partially in London.

(I'm going to use colors instead of names just for now because they're non-gender specific)

1. Red buys a film camera off E-bay or something like it. It's a little old, but a good camera. When it arrives, he sees that there is still film in the camera. In fact, all the pictures have been taken except one. Red decides he is going to take the last picture so he can put new film in it. He takes a picture of his girlfriend, Green.

2. A variety of vignettes of characters all over the world. In each of the separate stories, the character gets his or her picture taken at least once. The pictures either have a dramatic impact on their lives or are of an important event in their lives. For example, a bank robber gets his/her pic taken and recognized by police, a model gets discovered by this photograph he/she was in, a daredevil is blinded by the flash and dies, someone sees a picture of their long lost cousin, etc. But the point is that we actually SEE the person getting their picture taken.

3. Purple and Violet are best friends and going in different places on vacation. They exchange vacation photos online. Strangely, the same lady is in the background of one of each of their pictures. The viewer may recognize her as Green from earlier in the movie.

4. Conspiracies begin. Multiple people around the world have a picture of the same girl in the background of their picture, always the same shot, always in the same position on the picture. One starts to look it up on line, finds that other people have found the same thing, etc. But how can this be? The photos were taken all around the same time all over the world. Ah, but not just around the same time. Look at the date stamp. The EXACT same time. Weird.

5. Blue is one of the conspiracy people online trying to figure this out. Someone finds out who this girl is. Blue lives in the same town as her and goes to see her. First, he prints off copies of all the pictures people have sent him with her in it. Blue arrives on Green's doorstep. He shows her the pictures. She has no idea what's going on because she's never been to any of those places. Blue asks her what special thing happened at that time. Nothing, she says. But she remembers her boyfriend took a picture of her with that old camera he bought off the internet. Blue asks where the boyfriend is now. She says he died...the same night the picture was taken. She asks if this has anything to do with his death. Blue doesn't think so, but asks to see the photo he took. She knows it hasn't been developed yet. Red, her boyfriend had loaded the camera with new film, but left the undeveloped roll on the counter. Together, Blue and Green go down to the store to have it developed. They wait around an hour and then pay for the photos. They open them. The first picture shows the picture Red took of green. It's the same expression that was in all the other photos. Blue lays the other photos out on the counter (or wherever they are). They are the same pictures that all those people took that we saw in the vignettes, the same pictures that Blue has with him right now that he printed off the internet. Again, Green asks if this could have anything to do with Red's death. Blue says No, but then asks to see the camera. They go back to her place and talk about it. Blue examines the camera. At some point it gets passed to Green. Blue pontificates a bit, leaning his head back, hand over his eyes. Green innocently points the camera at him (he had told her that the camera had nothing to do with Red's death). Blue sees her and leans toward the camera and yells No! Click.

(Not sure I'm happy with the ending, but something to that effect. We'll need a title. I wanted to call it Shutter, but apparently there's already a movie about ghosts in photos called Shutter. Dang it.)

Bowling Shoes Prologue Cartoon Finished

Forgot to post this earlier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14csN8plu9Y

SPACED

I was drawing and watching Spaced at the same time and suddenly I decided I would draw some Spaced characters. Not the best picture ever, but they pretty much resemble the actors.

Bowling Shoes Drawings

I've been writing more and more of the Bowling Shoes prequel, but I've also been drawing pictures from both Gyre books (see below).

Also, I finished the prologue I was working on for cartoon animation. You can see it on my myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/thereto

I want to work with shadows a bit more, but don't know how to make it very subtle when I'm posterizing it. I guess it would have to be after the filter, but that's a lot of extra work. Eh.

Gyre Prequel

Doing my cartoon of Bowling Shoes and Murder has inspired me to write a second Gyre novel, but this one will be a prequel to Bowling Shoes and Murder. The reason for this is that it's more fun to work backwards. Indeed, Bowling Shoes and Murder was written backwards! No joke. So now I'll take the outcome (the novel) and try to write how these things came to be. It's like being a detective. You have to use clues from the story already written, even things that seem insignificant, to figure out what happened before all this occured. Over the course of THREE DAYS, I've written 15,000 words. Not bad if I do say so myself. I'm taking a little break now as I figure out the gist of a new character I'm just about to introduce.

Still need a title.