From Script to Screen - Ideation @ Phil
I'm not the best with narrative and story telling, so as a first practice i decided to do a mini map of the loose ideas i had for my prompts, i took one of my ideas and started drafting the acts. the notes are messy and i believe i have a solid idea for ACT 3 but i believe Acts 2 and 1 could be improved. ACT 1 i need to establish and grab the viewers attention more and pull them into tension which should shift to ACT 2 where they've identified the problem and come across their obstacle (that being the corporation that robbed their artefacts from them) and confronting it. It sounds cliche but I want to make it more human. The archaeologist confronting the antagonists and being overpowered by their huge corporate army... but I'm not sure if that fits with the idea of the Closure ACT. I may need to split these acts to make two separate story ideas..
Hey Meg - so, the 'problem' with your three components is actually they almost tie-up too neatly and I think they sort of squeeze out different sorts of stories - or rather thinking about them. It's fab that your story-making already, but remember, story comes from character, so maybe you want to think a bit more about your archaeologist character for a bit - so an archeologist is someone who looks at old things by which to understand a moment of time better - or someone fascinated by digging up old stuff - 'The Archeologist' could be the name given to a criminal by the newspapers to describe the evil acts of someone who robs graves, or steals stuff from a museum... The walking-stick might belong to the archeologist who is really old and depressed because he can no longer go on his trips to foreign places. There is nothing to say either that your 'museum' needs to be a proper museum - a museum is a collection of artefacts around a theme - for example, Scotland Yard's Black Museum, which is a collection of grisly murder weapons etc. A museum could be the collection of fluff and old socks under a child's bed, and the 'archeologist' could be a spider finding all these relics... Try and break your words a bit more, Meg - think laterally and don't get caught up in your first 'literal' image for each word...
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