I started to story board the digital terrorist but then rememberd that his story line over laps with the other story line so many of the scenes are the same.
But here are the 2 or 3 scenes that take place before the two storys meet.
Monday 25 February 2008
Extra story boards
I started to story board the digital terrorist but then rememberd that his story line over laps with the other story line so many of the scenes are the same.
But here are the 2 or 3 scenes that take place before the two storys meet.
A very basic outline for the digital terrorist storyline
Flash back
The story starts with a flash back sequence, taking place approximately 72hours before the main narrative.
The main character has a shady meeting with three black suited men hiding in the shadows of an old abandoned church.
The main character hands over a small object containing a computer program he has written. In turn, one of the three figures hands over a small brown envelope.
Main Narrative
The main character is stood in a tailors, trying on a new suit he had ordered the previous week.
He walks out and heads down the street to a back alley shop selling second hand computer hardware to pick up an old, custom built lap top (a mac book air) his friend has put together for him.
Leaving the shop he heads towards a local shopping centre.
As he walks in the front door, he steps on to an escalator. At the same time, he hears a distant noise, almost like an explosion. While others seem to stop and wonder what it was and were it had come from, he checks his watch and continues on as normal.
He passes various shops and advertisements as he walks through the centre.
He walks to a small coffee shop and orders a large cup of tea, and sits down on a bench and opens up his newly purchased laptop.
As he sits and works, he notices that a small crowd has gathered around an electrical shop window filled with various TV displays, and another a few shops down. He also notices that other people seem very concerned and nervous about something, showing each other there news papers and some same to be in a hurry to leave the shopping centre.
But he ignores what is going on around him and continues to work on his computer.
About an hour goes by before he is approached by a man, flanked by another half dozen people slowly making a semi circle at a distance around him. All of which have their hands hovering over weapons.
The man asks the main character to stop what he is doing. (he is accused of hacking the city’s control hub and also accused of hacking into the main computer system of aerospace industry and causing a head on collision of two aircraft over central London.)
The main character closes his lap top and offers the man a seat. After a cryptic convocation, the man is told that the bench has a small explosive device under it and if he tries to get up it will go off. The main character uses this to manufacture his escape.
Now on the run, he jogs down several streets before ducking into a side alley to catch his breath and collect himself. He is then cornered by one of the black suited men he had encounters days earlier. The man accuses him of trying to fool him by selling him a faulty computer program as he pulls a gun out. They have an altercation and the main character over powers him and takes the gun. The altercation has drawn unwanted attention so he moves on.
Trying to find a new place of which to finish his work, the man who approached him in the coffee shop catches up to him. (After finding the bomb was just a bag of flower) They both pull their guns on each other, and after another short cryptic convocation, the main character is taken into custody.
Waking up secured to a chair in an intermigration room he if forced to tell them everything.
How he was approached by a group of people to write a program that will hack the city’s infrastructure as well as the airlines. How he deliberately wrote a program that would make them believe that the two aircraft where passenger planes when actually fact they where unmanned cargo planes. And how the only reason he was caught hacking the city’s network was to implant a virus that would block them from gaining access to not only London but city’s linked to it and if they didn’t let him finish his work they would be able to gain access.
After convincing them, he his raced to the main servers to upload the final part of his virus. However he locks himself in for his own malicious intent.
It is then that the people who captured him realise that the two planes that collided where full of propaganda reading material from him that the explosion had showered over London. Propaganda that voiced his hatred for technology and how would prove how fragile societies dependence on it has become.
However it is too late for them to do anything. He used his obsolete computer, which houses an ancient computer virus. The city’s modern networks no longer have a defence against such an ancient piece of programming. The virus attacks the ancient base layer of the city’s operating system that would have been written around the same time. Like any kind of architecture, be it build from masonry or computer code, without its foundations, they begin to collapse.
The story starts with a flash back sequence, taking place approximately 72hours before the main narrative.
The main character has a shady meeting with three black suited men hiding in the shadows of an old abandoned church.
The main character hands over a small object containing a computer program he has written. In turn, one of the three figures hands over a small brown envelope.
Main Narrative
The main character is stood in a tailors, trying on a new suit he had ordered the previous week.
He walks out and heads down the street to a back alley shop selling second hand computer hardware to pick up an old, custom built lap top (a mac book air) his friend has put together for him.
Leaving the shop he heads towards a local shopping centre.
As he walks in the front door, he steps on to an escalator. At the same time, he hears a distant noise, almost like an explosion. While others seem to stop and wonder what it was and were it had come from, he checks his watch and continues on as normal.
He passes various shops and advertisements as he walks through the centre.
He walks to a small coffee shop and orders a large cup of tea, and sits down on a bench and opens up his newly purchased laptop.
As he sits and works, he notices that a small crowd has gathered around an electrical shop window filled with various TV displays, and another a few shops down. He also notices that other people seem very concerned and nervous about something, showing each other there news papers and some same to be in a hurry to leave the shopping centre.
But he ignores what is going on around him and continues to work on his computer.
About an hour goes by before he is approached by a man, flanked by another half dozen people slowly making a semi circle at a distance around him. All of which have their hands hovering over weapons.
The man asks the main character to stop what he is doing. (he is accused of hacking the city’s control hub and also accused of hacking into the main computer system of aerospace industry and causing a head on collision of two aircraft over central London.)
The main character closes his lap top and offers the man a seat. After a cryptic convocation, the man is told that the bench has a small explosive device under it and if he tries to get up it will go off. The main character uses this to manufacture his escape.
Now on the run, he jogs down several streets before ducking into a side alley to catch his breath and collect himself. He is then cornered by one of the black suited men he had encounters days earlier. The man accuses him of trying to fool him by selling him a faulty computer program as he pulls a gun out. They have an altercation and the main character over powers him and takes the gun. The altercation has drawn unwanted attention so he moves on.
Trying to find a new place of which to finish his work, the man who approached him in the coffee shop catches up to him. (After finding the bomb was just a bag of flower) They both pull their guns on each other, and after another short cryptic convocation, the main character is taken into custody.
Waking up secured to a chair in an intermigration room he if forced to tell them everything.
How he was approached by a group of people to write a program that will hack the city’s infrastructure as well as the airlines. How he deliberately wrote a program that would make them believe that the two aircraft where passenger planes when actually fact they where unmanned cargo planes. And how the only reason he was caught hacking the city’s network was to implant a virus that would block them from gaining access to not only London but city’s linked to it and if they didn’t let him finish his work they would be able to gain access.
After convincing them, he his raced to the main servers to upload the final part of his virus. However he locks himself in for his own malicious intent.
It is then that the people who captured him realise that the two planes that collided where full of propaganda reading material from him that the explosion had showered over London. Propaganda that voiced his hatred for technology and how would prove how fragile societies dependence on it has become.
However it is too late for them to do anything. He used his obsolete computer, which houses an ancient computer virus. The city’s modern networks no longer have a defence against such an ancient piece of programming. The virus attacks the ancient base layer of the city’s operating system that would have been written around the same time. Like any kind of architecture, be it build from masonry or computer code, without its foundations, they begin to collapse.
Sunday 24 February 2008
Londons Calling
My narrative will be set in London around the year 2020 / 2030. I have had a basic idea in my head to how I want the city to look and feel both in the narrative and visual styles. But I thought it would help to write it down so a comparison can be drawn between my intended vision and my current visual and narrative output.
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The city is remains basically the same city as it is today. An architectural pix’n’mix of the old, the new, the historic and everything in between. It remains one of the world's leading cultural, business and financial centres. The tube still remains the preferred mode of transport, more so after the congestion charges became so high, many simply got the hint and stopped driving into central London, so bar taxies and buses, the centre of the capital is allot quieter in terms of traffic volume and noise. The streets are still home to tourist shops and stalls that reside on almost every street corner.
Modern technology has continued to make a noticeable impact. Information floods the urban landscape. Everything from buildings and streets, cars to clothes, everything exchanges information and data around the clock. Even everyday objects in people’s homes are constantly talking to each other. The city is essentially a giant internet where everyone and everything is connected and always online in some shape or form. Much of the architecture, be it the pavement, walls, advertisements, even the vending machines have some degree of interaction or visual medium, displaying information or services. Many can also be used by the public to display their own information if needed, however more often than not the public utilise public booths or surfaces created solely for the use for people to use to display information in a larger scale from their array personal devices.
Everything needed to run the city, police and fire services, power plants, and hospitals are all controlled from one control point. As we become more dependent on technology, we have to remember that even in the future, computers can crash and technology can fail. Because the urban landscape is so intricately wired it is also highly venerable. A virus, lurking in an obsolete computer could bring down the system. Modern citys and networks will no longer have a defence against such an ancient piece of programming. Its not just computers that will be effected, the whole city network would start to crash. And it is that notion which will form the basis of my narrative.
One major event in the city’s history however has reshaped the city’s infrastructure in recent years. Around 2011 / 2014, a mixture of rising sea levels and an unusually large storm surge created a huge surge of water which made its way down the north east coast of the UK. Reaching London, the Thames barrier was overwhelmed and unable to hold back the immense pressure caused by a mixture of the storm surge and high tide. The vast majority of the Thames Valley and other low lying parts of London became submerged. The affected areas where home one and a half million people that lived and worked in the danger zone.
Hitting at rush hour, the evacuation failed to clear all the predicted danger areas, with the loss of over a thousand people. The city has never fully recovered. While many of the affected areas where recovered for their financial, economic and historical value or location. Many other areas remain in bad condition, with many of them still awaiting regeneration with some still remaining untouched since that day.
So the city has developed two distinct sides. The relatively new and highly developed areas of the city that sprung up post flood financial infusion which compliment the still developed and undamaged parts of the city, and the flood hit areas, forget about, or still awaiting planning permission. Many of these areas might have already been regenerated if it had no been for a catastrophic plague in 2017 had stratified society sharply according to social class.
The plague, which culled 5-10% of the male population in every European country, caused panic in much of the western world both socially and financially. Sporadic discontent became a mass movement that swept the centre-left out of power. With intruders now seen as a source of disease as well as crime, the middle classes seized on the new menace of plague as a pretext for protecting their estates against the underclass.
For a time, many people now live on enclosed estates or blocks with restricted access. Membership of your home estate might give you access rights to confederated estates. However, the underclass, including anyone convicted of a serious offence, was obliged to live in the so-called `free' or `unrestricted' zones, where crime and poverty were rife, and public services were minimal. While many zones have since been lifted some areas and estates have grown accustomed to a private and inclusive way of living, so while the zones may no longer officially exist, walking from zone to zone you still get a sense of community, with many zones having their own distinct feel and character.
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The city is remains basically the same city as it is today. An architectural pix’n’mix of the old, the new, the historic and everything in between. It remains one of the world's leading cultural, business and financial centres. The tube still remains the preferred mode of transport, more so after the congestion charges became so high, many simply got the hint and stopped driving into central London, so bar taxies and buses, the centre of the capital is allot quieter in terms of traffic volume and noise. The streets are still home to tourist shops and stalls that reside on almost every street corner.
Modern technology has continued to make a noticeable impact. Information floods the urban landscape. Everything from buildings and streets, cars to clothes, everything exchanges information and data around the clock. Even everyday objects in people’s homes are constantly talking to each other. The city is essentially a giant internet where everyone and everything is connected and always online in some shape or form. Much of the architecture, be it the pavement, walls, advertisements, even the vending machines have some degree of interaction or visual medium, displaying information or services. Many can also be used by the public to display their own information if needed, however more often than not the public utilise public booths or surfaces created solely for the use for people to use to display information in a larger scale from their array personal devices.
Everything needed to run the city, police and fire services, power plants, and hospitals are all controlled from one control point. As we become more dependent on technology, we have to remember that even in the future, computers can crash and technology can fail. Because the urban landscape is so intricately wired it is also highly venerable. A virus, lurking in an obsolete computer could bring down the system. Modern citys and networks will no longer have a defence against such an ancient piece of programming. Its not just computers that will be effected, the whole city network would start to crash. And it is that notion which will form the basis of my narrative.
One major event in the city’s history however has reshaped the city’s infrastructure in recent years. Around 2011 / 2014, a mixture of rising sea levels and an unusually large storm surge created a huge surge of water which made its way down the north east coast of the UK. Reaching London, the Thames barrier was overwhelmed and unable to hold back the immense pressure caused by a mixture of the storm surge and high tide. The vast majority of the Thames Valley and other low lying parts of London became submerged. The affected areas where home one and a half million people that lived and worked in the danger zone.
Hitting at rush hour, the evacuation failed to clear all the predicted danger areas, with the loss of over a thousand people. The city has never fully recovered. While many of the affected areas where recovered for their financial, economic and historical value or location. Many other areas remain in bad condition, with many of them still awaiting regeneration with some still remaining untouched since that day.
So the city has developed two distinct sides. The relatively new and highly developed areas of the city that sprung up post flood financial infusion which compliment the still developed and undamaged parts of the city, and the flood hit areas, forget about, or still awaiting planning permission. Many of these areas might have already been regenerated if it had no been for a catastrophic plague in 2017 had stratified society sharply according to social class.
The plague, which culled 5-10% of the male population in every European country, caused panic in much of the western world both socially and financially. Sporadic discontent became a mass movement that swept the centre-left out of power. With intruders now seen as a source of disease as well as crime, the middle classes seized on the new menace of plague as a pretext for protecting their estates against the underclass.
For a time, many people now live on enclosed estates or blocks with restricted access. Membership of your home estate might give you access rights to confederated estates. However, the underclass, including anyone convicted of a serious offence, was obliged to live in the so-called `free' or `unrestricted' zones, where crime and poverty were rife, and public services were minimal. While many zones have since been lifted some areas and estates have grown accustomed to a private and inclusive way of living, so while the zones may no longer officially exist, walking from zone to zone you still get a sense of community, with many zones having their own distinct feel and character.
Saturday 23 February 2008
Friday 22 February 2008
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Friday 15 February 2008
Run Lola Run
When I went onto Wikipedia to research the aforementioned Simpsons episode “Trilogy of three”, i came across information about a film called, Run Lola Run.
Run Lola Run, is split into three parts. Each part is a sequential alternative reality. Wikipedia explains that:
Run Lola Run, is split into three parts. Each part is a sequential alternative reality. Wikipedia explains that:
Throughout the film, Lola bumps into people, talks to them, or simply passes them by. Details of that person's future are subsequently shown in a series of still frames. The futures are widely divergent from encounter to encounter. In one scenario, a woman whom Lola accidentally bumps into wins the lottery and becomes rich; in a different scenario, she remains poor and kidnaps an unattended baby after her child was taken away by social workers. In the third scenario, the woman experiences a religious conversion.
Several moments in the film allude to a supernatural awareness of the characters. For example, in the first reality, a nervous Lola is shown by Manni how to use a gun by removing the safety, whereas she does this as if remembered from a previous experience in the second reality. Lola's encounters with Schuster also contain an air of the supernatural.
The movie itself begins by posing questions pertaining to the unpredictability of the world and the unknowable nature of its meaning. It suggests that drastically disparate consequences can alter the fates of different people from a one second change in the time of one person's running.
Narrative and visual Styles
Story zero: The manifesto
A first person written document, detailing the terrorist / homeless persons views and observations about modern life. It will provide some historical highlights, filling in some of the gaps between 2008 and when the story is set. It will also look at many of the problems that some of problems and issues that exists because of modern technology as well as refer back to how some of today’s problems were solved and how some of the new technologies today, caused problems in the years that followed.
The tone of the narrative will be one of contempt and distain for society and culture. And will refer to events and people who will also be mentioned in the two narratives. Unlike the two main narratives, this first person document will be written a number of weeks before the events in the further two narrative time lines.
At present, I have two main ideas for the visual style of this section. Firstly, I have been inspired by an episode of Doctor Who entitled Human Nature. The Doctor, who has temporarily become human, still dreams about his former life as a Time Lord. Fascinated by his dreams he starts to put them down in a Journal, (entitled A Journal of Impossible Things) which forms a mixture of written and illustrative images.
I like the visual style of this Journal; it has a very personal touch. Moreover, one of the personality traits of the character will be one that hates technology, so a hand written document would be an appropriate medium to support the story. A collection of loose pages, hastily bundled and bound together.
The Second idea I had for the visual style would be in the style of a pamphlet. Something which has pages but can also fold out to the size of a poster, with different chapters and images arranged in different positions, angles, sides etc etc. Something which could be mass produced and printed easily.
In relation to technology interaction, this character won’t have any direct connection to technology per say. Instead he will simply comment on some of the negative aspects of modern technology as well as the problems and issues it has caused.
Story One: The security operative
The main character believes he lives in a technological metropolis. And while it as its problems like any modern city, they pale in comparison to the technical wonders and services the modern city provides. The visual style will reflect this. I intend the visual style to reflect how the main character sees the world around him. So the visual style will portray the city as a clean, bustling metropolis, full of modern technology.
Story Two: The terrorist / homeless guy
Both sides of this characters personality feel that they have been dealt an un-fair hand by society. Living in an ageing and unkempt part of the city, they have grown to despise technology and the society which depends on it. The visual style will portray the city as an ageing, dark and forgotten place, and while still garnished with some modern technology, it too has become aged and forgotten.
The bulk of both narratives will take place at the same time. However I intend to weave in certain plot element that will be common to both narratives. (e.g. if one character witness an explosion, then the other one may hear it, see smoke, or see a breaking news bulletin. Or an event or action in one narrative will affect the other.
Its also just occurred to me that the general layout of the narrative. (telling the same story from different points of view) is similar to an episode of the Simpsons entitled “Trilogy of Error”. The episode portrays one day from the viewpoints of three different characters: Homer, Lisa, and Bart, piecing them together to make a complete story. Three intertwining tales offer different perspectives on a day. As the mayhem of the day unfolds, it becomes clear how the actions of each family member directly affect the rest of the household.
A first person written document, detailing the terrorist / homeless persons views and observations about modern life. It will provide some historical highlights, filling in some of the gaps between 2008 and when the story is set. It will also look at many of the problems that some of problems and issues that exists because of modern technology as well as refer back to how some of today’s problems were solved and how some of the new technologies today, caused problems in the years that followed.
The tone of the narrative will be one of contempt and distain for society and culture. And will refer to events and people who will also be mentioned in the two narratives. Unlike the two main narratives, this first person document will be written a number of weeks before the events in the further two narrative time lines.
At present, I have two main ideas for the visual style of this section. Firstly, I have been inspired by an episode of Doctor Who entitled Human Nature. The Doctor, who has temporarily become human, still dreams about his former life as a Time Lord. Fascinated by his dreams he starts to put them down in a Journal, (entitled A Journal of Impossible Things) which forms a mixture of written and illustrative images.
I like the visual style of this Journal; it has a very personal touch. Moreover, one of the personality traits of the character will be one that hates technology, so a hand written document would be an appropriate medium to support the story. A collection of loose pages, hastily bundled and bound together.
The Second idea I had for the visual style would be in the style of a pamphlet. Something which has pages but can also fold out to the size of a poster, with different chapters and images arranged in different positions, angles, sides etc etc. Something which could be mass produced and printed easily.
In relation to technology interaction, this character won’t have any direct connection to technology per say. Instead he will simply comment on some of the negative aspects of modern technology as well as the problems and issues it has caused.
Story One: The security operative
The main character believes he lives in a technological metropolis. And while it as its problems like any modern city, they pale in comparison to the technical wonders and services the modern city provides. The visual style will reflect this. I intend the visual style to reflect how the main character sees the world around him. So the visual style will portray the city as a clean, bustling metropolis, full of modern technology.
Story Two: The terrorist / homeless guy
Both sides of this characters personality feel that they have been dealt an un-fair hand by society. Living in an ageing and unkempt part of the city, they have grown to despise technology and the society which depends on it. The visual style will portray the city as an ageing, dark and forgotten place, and while still garnished with some modern technology, it too has become aged and forgotten.
The bulk of both narratives will take place at the same time. However I intend to weave in certain plot element that will be common to both narratives. (e.g. if one character witness an explosion, then the other one may hear it, see smoke, or see a breaking news bulletin. Or an event or action in one narrative will affect the other.
Its also just occurred to me that the general layout of the narrative. (telling the same story from different points of view) is similar to an episode of the Simpsons entitled “Trilogy of Error”. The episode portrays one day from the viewpoints of three different characters: Homer, Lisa, and Bart, piecing them together to make a complete story. Three intertwining tales offer different perspectives on a day. As the mayhem of the day unfolds, it becomes clear how the actions of each family member directly affect the rest of the household.
Wednesday 13 February 2008
Book Idea
Maybe have two illustration styles. The terrorist visuals could be quite dark, with imagery that is reflective of the dark side of the society. However, have the security analysis’s visual style a more clinical, clean and bright vision.
Have images of the homeless man always gray and in the rain.
The book could be done in two half’s. Have the front part of the book told from the first point of view. You then flip the book over and the second story starts from the back and works its way forward. The end of both stories could then be maybe the same and will be in the middle of the book.
Both story’s could take place at the same time. So the pages or images could have their own time stamp? Like 24.
Have images of the homeless man always gray and in the rain.
The book could be done in two half’s. Have the front part of the book told from the first point of view. You then flip the book over and the second story starts from the back and works its way forward. The end of both stories could then be maybe the same and will be in the middle of the book.
Both story’s could take place at the same time. So the pages or images could have their own time stamp? Like 24.
Monday 11 February 2008
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