Monday, 11 February 2008
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Tuesday, 5 February 2008
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Sunday, 3 February 2008
Narrative outline for 3 storys
Story 1:
A first person account, told from the point of view of a man who lives on the street / shelter. He points out problems with the culture and society. Talks about the level of technology and some of the new practical applications and uses as well as recounts his fall from the good life and the cultural divides.
Story 2:
Opens with a mid air collision over London at the same time a virus begins to destroy the city’s digital infrastructure. A security operative on the ground, leases with a control room initially for damage control , but then in the pursuit of a suspect they believe is responsible who is trying to hack into the city’s main control hub. Story will talk the effect and confusion on the city as well as how security would track a person. They apprehend the person, only to lose him again at the end. (24 style story line)
Story 3:
Takes place just after the suspect escapes from the security operative. He heads to the city’s main control hub after his attempt to access it failed. We then find out that he is actually working for the greater good and if they don’t let him have access the situation could become far worse and out of their control.
A first person account, told from the point of view of a man who lives on the street / shelter. He points out problems with the culture and society. Talks about the level of technology and some of the new practical applications and uses as well as recounts his fall from the good life and the cultural divides.
Story 2:
Opens with a mid air collision over London at the same time a virus begins to destroy the city’s digital infrastructure. A security operative on the ground, leases with a control room initially for damage control , but then in the pursuit of a suspect they believe is responsible who is trying to hack into the city’s main control hub. Story will talk the effect and confusion on the city as well as how security would track a person. They apprehend the person, only to lose him again at the end. (24 style story line)
Story 3:
Takes place just after the suspect escapes from the security operative. He heads to the city’s main control hub after his attempt to access it failed. We then find out that he is actually working for the greater good and if they don’t let him have access the situation could become far worse and out of their control.
Saturday, 2 February 2008
John August
I’ve been looking at the blog of screenwriter John August. I came across it while researching a film called “the nines”. The film is divided in to three acts:
The way the movie is set out is very similar to the way i want my own narrative to be set out. Im endeavouring to obtain a copy of the movie to see how they go about telling three different story’s.
When i came across the site i came across Mr Augusts tips for writing a narrative and idea generation for it:
"The Prisoner" tells of a troubled actor under house arrest living in another person's house because he burned down his own.
"Reality Television" tells of a television writer trying to get his pilot made. The house he lives in is the house the actor stays in.
"Knowing" tells of an acclaimed video game designer who is lost when his car breaks down, a situation shown in the pilot of the writer.
The way the movie is set out is very similar to the way i want my own narrative to be set out. Im endeavouring to obtain a copy of the movie to see how they go about telling three different story’s.
When i came across the site i came across Mr Augusts tips for writing a narrative and idea generation for it:
• figuring out what the outcome needs to be, then working backwards;
• deciding what caused the problem in the first place, and whether it can be changed or cut;
• looking at the moment from another character’s perspective;
• quickly writing several different solutions, then judging whether one or a combination of several best address the problem.
Future and Emerging Trends
I have found an online resource, listing Books on the Future and Emerging Trends, which proves the point that research is never over!!
http://www.innovationwatch.com/resources_future.htm
http://www.innovationwatch.com/resources_future.htm
Narrative Blurb
As a massive explosion in the sky over London rocks the city, causing mass panic, an unprecedented operation gets under way to contain the situation as well as find the people or person responsible. But as one young government agent is tasked with finding their number one suspect, another man, whose psychosis is matched only by his ego sets out on his own mission. A mission not only to clear his name, and expose a far greater plot but to also achieve something his has long longed for, immortality.
Friday, 1 February 2008
Quote
Ive found a quote which is very relivent to my project.
-Jesse Conrad
“Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.”
-Jesse Conrad
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Character and scene intergration again
These images where another experiment to see if i could combine character with scene, but it also turned into a texture and rendering experiment.
The two main protagonist of Narrative 3: (the back story)
The main protagonist of the story is actually an amalgamation of two characters. The first was once a well respected computer scientist on the forefront of modern computer technology, but after he had a nervous breakdown, he turned to drugs. It wasn’t long before he discovered underground Personality Augmentation or P.A. for short. Using a proverbial cocktail of mental conditioning, advanced hypnosis and a series of neural suppressing drugs, a second personality could be constructed. In a world where it had long since become common to have multiple identities, the procedure had become a popular underground procedure because it gave people a chance to not just live out their ‘second lives’, but to become them.
But it wasn’t long before he ran out of money so he never got to complete the procedure; as a result his mental condition has become highly unstable. Now living on the street, his mind now plays host to two personalities. The first, a former shell of a once well respected computer scientists, who has grown to hate the culture and society that drove him to live on the street. The other is an incomplete version of the personality, the construction of which was never completed; as a result it has developed un-checked.
This potentially dangerous alter ego harbours utter contempt toward the government and negligent authority figures and is bitter toward the uninvolved public who give the authority its power. But unlike the first personality, who, while angry with the world, would never do anything about it. However the second personality would love nothing better to be proactive about it, in fact, he thinks of nothing else. He regards himself as the new Unabomber for the 21st century and intends to write his own manifesto, and implement it.
Both personalities are incarnations of the same identity. The two personalities represent two apparently disparate, but ultimately inseparable elements of human nature, known as hyperarousal, an acute stress response more commonly known as fight or flight. However the two personalities have begun to compete for sole occupation of his brain. However both are inexpiably intertwined, and neither can exist without the other, but the expulsion of one would ultimately lead to his destruction and visa versa.
However it is obviously his alter ego which is the main protagonist in terms of a story line. His mental condition is highly unstable and changes on a day to day basis and he has no true personality of his own. He creates himself each day to cope with the chaotic flow of modern urban life. He seems to have no control over the sensory information he's receiving from the outside world. He can only cope with the chaotic barrage of input by going with the flow. As a result, he has days when he his fairly mellow and enjoys the fruits of life, entertaining himself with drink, drugs and women, but other days he seems to become enraged by society and government and it is the latter when he is the most dangerous.
His psychosis is matched only by his own ego and he regards everything he thinks, says or does is a work of art and pure genius.
One of the main character plots will be the dilemma of the main character who simultaneously assumes two identities and often loses track of reality.
But it wasn’t long before he ran out of money so he never got to complete the procedure; as a result his mental condition has become highly unstable. Now living on the street, his mind now plays host to two personalities. The first, a former shell of a once well respected computer scientists, who has grown to hate the culture and society that drove him to live on the street. The other is an incomplete version of the personality, the construction of which was never completed; as a result it has developed un-checked.
This potentially dangerous alter ego harbours utter contempt toward the government and negligent authority figures and is bitter toward the uninvolved public who give the authority its power. But unlike the first personality, who, while angry with the world, would never do anything about it. However the second personality would love nothing better to be proactive about it, in fact, he thinks of nothing else. He regards himself as the new Unabomber for the 21st century and intends to write his own manifesto, and implement it.
Both personalities are incarnations of the same identity. The two personalities represent two apparently disparate, but ultimately inseparable elements of human nature, known as hyperarousal, an acute stress response more commonly known as fight or flight. However the two personalities have begun to compete for sole occupation of his brain. However both are inexpiably intertwined, and neither can exist without the other, but the expulsion of one would ultimately lead to his destruction and visa versa.
However it is obviously his alter ego which is the main protagonist in terms of a story line. His mental condition is highly unstable and changes on a day to day basis and he has no true personality of his own. He creates himself each day to cope with the chaotic flow of modern urban life. He seems to have no control over the sensory information he's receiving from the outside world. He can only cope with the chaotic barrage of input by going with the flow. As a result, he has days when he his fairly mellow and enjoys the fruits of life, entertaining himself with drink, drugs and women, but other days he seems to become enraged by society and government and it is the latter when he is the most dangerous.
His psychosis is matched only by his own ego and he regards everything he thinks, says or does is a work of art and pure genius.
One of the main character plots will be the dilemma of the main character who simultaneously assumes two identities and often loses track of reality.
Narrative idea 3
On the 23rd, it was suggested that i maybe develop the current narrative;
A series of short stories written from different perspectives and in different styles, portraying the day to day lives, issues and problems surrounding the world of tomorrow. All the characters are linked in some way and are referenced in the other characters stories.
I have developed this narrative further so that there are only 3 main characters, a security analysis, a homeless man and a cyber terrorist. Each character has their own individual story; however the narrative reveals that the homeless man and the terrorist are actually the same person. And are both linked to the security analysis.
A series of short stories written from different perspectives and in different styles, portraying the day to day lives, issues and problems surrounding the world of tomorrow. All the characters are linked in some way and are referenced in the other characters stories.
I have developed this narrative further so that there are only 3 main characters, a security analysis, a homeless man and a cyber terrorist. Each character has their own individual story; however the narrative reveals that the homeless man and the terrorist are actually the same person. And are both linked to the security analysis.
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Newspapers: The Future
I found a good artical about the future of newspapers with the introduction of new technologies and shrinking circulation numbers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/10/11/DI2005101101387.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/10/11/DI2005101101387.html
Dystopia in England
I want my narrative to have a mix of the old and the new, the almost utopian and the dystopian mixed in together. To that end i have come accross a BBC website called My Science Fiction Life, which is part of the Science Fiction Britannia season on BBC Four, which explored how the genre has changed individual lives. Im trying to find out when next it will be broadcast or a way i can watch it, but in the mean time the site does contain a number of video interviews which im going to watch, starting with the section under themes entitled Dystopias.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mysciencefictionlife/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mysciencefictionlife/index.shtml
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