Scriptin' Fancy-Like: Update!Well I thought I'd have my treatment finished by now, but it isn't (though not for lack of trying). True, I've had such epic distractions as building a desk and
China continuing to rediscover the
problems of the
Industrial Revolution on
a grander scale...but I'd say I've spent a fair bit of time hacking away at this over the past while.
But anyways, I reached the end of the second act and I had to decide not
if someone would die but by whose hand. This fork in the road would determine an awful lot about the arrangement of the third act, which was largely already written but in a grouping of pieces which have some room to be shuffled depending on which road I took.
I think part of the reason that I breezed throught he first act and took a somewhat leisurely stroll through the second was that I had no and then less continuity stacked behind me to worry about. Now entering the third act (though, really, it's more like the fourth act given how the story plays out) I have to not only make sure that there is a believable causality at play but it has to fit into the previous two acts. Also, I am trying to make sure that all this is built out of strong and engaging ideas?
It feels kind of like I am trying to arrange a long series of glass lenses, where each lense has a pattern painted across so as to paritally block light from going through. If I can just rotate all the lenses correctly to allow an unbroken length of light to enter at one end and exit at the other, then I'll have succeded and be able to move on to the script proper.
Meanwhile I've been taking refuge from wrestling with Content and fiddled about with Structure, specifically character descriptions to help me better visualize things and an experiment of mine. I've set aside a page in one notebook and titled it "...ends up...". Then I'll slap a characters name at the start of that sentence as well as their fate on the other end, repeating it as many times with one character as I feel inspired to do. It's helping and it isn't, since it does help me narrow down where the story can go but it also makes me feel like I'm building another kaleidoscope to align.
WELL
I know at least some of you are already aware of this guy, but since I found some of his work near my place I thought I'd bring him up.
Banksy is arguably the most notorious street artist going, which is saying something given how many there are and how many are focused entirely on gaining widespread recognition. I always admire how he not only manages incredibly daring pieces, like those he did on that wall the Israeli's built so as to destroy any sympathy I might have had left for them and their troubles, but the fact that he shows a great deal of genuine artistic talent and thought in his subversive images.
Though you can find it in his book, I thought I'd post a couple of my own photos of a piece that I discovered just across the street from Archway Station, about five minutes walk from my apartment. I wouldn't say this is his best work, but I do enjoy it.
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