100 words updated.
Will post something more interesting in a day or so. I have to do more work on the play.
has it been a week already?
Jul 18th, 2009 by vinn
how many times do i have to tell you?
Jul 11th, 2009 by vinn
It’s Saturday. So that means that 100 words has been updated.
Enjoy.
gotta do whatcha’ gotta do
Jul 8th, 2009 by vinn
The director of the play and I had a lunch meeting yesterday. (Well, Monday, actually.) It was really productive. Since we have been given carte blanche, we’re making a shitload of changes to the play. Combining characters, getting rid of characters, story changes; we’re going all out.
Will the producer and actual writer be happy? Highly doubtful. In fact, they’re probably gonna hate it. Well, the producer might like the idea of less characters because it’ll save him money. But the writer, he’s not gonna like it at all. He doesn’t understand that there has to be a story arc. His writing sounded too much like a bunch of guys hanging out in a bar, not a complete story. What the director and I came up with is a complete story. With surprises and a couple of twists.
Should be an interesting script when all is said and done.
In other news….
I think I’m going to start work on another graphic novel. Have the first few pages in my head and I need to get them down before I forget them. It’s gonna be different from Uke´ in that it’s not going to be about a superhero. Or even in manga style. This will be a darker storyline. More dealing with the underbelly of society perhaps. Not exactly sure which way I’m gonna head with it yet, but dark it will be.
What I’ve noticed from working with Sara*, or to be more precise, looking at all of the sites for the conventions she’s a part of, and on the panels they have either artist or writer/artist. There aren’t many, if any, just plain writers. At all. I understand that it’s the art that makes the story graphic, and the better the art the better the book. Sara* has a convention later this month and under photo on the website it says that she is the artist of a particular story. The writer is not listed on the page at all.
Just a curious little tidbit I’ve noticed….
*names have been changed so that they can’t be googled.
quick note
Jul 5th, 2009 by vinn
New 100 words up.
finally, they come to their senses
Jun 22nd, 2009 by vinn
Just found out that the director of the play and I have full creative control over the play adaptation. This means we can actually have a plot, some conflict, and a resolution.
We are going to meet up soon and to take the script apart line by line and build it back up.
This is going to be fun. And long. Though we don’t have much time to do it. We’re going to have to have it done within, I going to say, the next two weeks, tops, so that we can stay on schedule to have the play up in September.
Let the chaos unfold….
how many electricians does it take to change a lightbulb?
Jun 18th, 2009 by vinn
Good news about the table reading; I didn’t get whacked. It looked like a bunch of good fellas when we were hanging outside of the office. With the loud voices and cursing, I swear I as in Little Italy in the 70s.
The reading itself, not so good. But at least we got an idea of what works and what doesn’t. A lot of the dialogue isn’t flowing. It seems to get jumbled in the mouths of the readers. And, as I’ve said many times, too many repetitions of lines and ideas.
Before the reading, the producer said to me that he finally read the ‘revised script’ and it needs work. I told him that I left the script as it was from the last time the writer sent it to me. He then told me that he is going to give the director and me more control over the story and script. This is what we’ve been waiting to hear since this little thing started. And he’s going to keep the writer out of it as much as possible. So the plan is for the director and me to go line by line, tearing the script down and building it back up. Hopefully, if we get it right, we’ll have a really good script to work from.
And we need a finalized version soon because the play is supposed to go up in three months. Otherwise, we can fuhgeddaboudit.
we’re giving away roles here
Jun 17th, 2009 by vinn
Have to go to the table reading for the play tonight. Not really looking forward to it since I (and the director) don’t feel that the script is up to par. But maybe this way the writer will finally realize that he needs to stop changing all the elements that make the play work and let me and the director do our jobs.
Plus, at 3.15 this morning, the producer e-mailed me asking if I had any actors that could do the reading. Well, besides the obvious fact that I don’t own any actors, none that I do know would want to do this anyway. Plus, none are white with an Italian background. Which means that we are probably going to be short an actor or two tonight.
Wasn’t this the reason we had to reschedule this reading? Twice?
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