Currently Scripting: Chapter 6 Scene 1
Artist Status: Dazed
I finished chapter 5! Now there's only two chapters left, and I'm excited because they are action packed a full of awesome! It's pretty much like a race to the finish from here on out, because I have a more solid idea of what needs to happen in these chapters. It was the middle part up to Chapter 5 Scene 6 that was iffy. Now it should be smooth sailing....should being the operative word in that scentence.
To gather some interest, I decided to include a little preview from part of the script to entertain you. It's from Chapter 2 Scene 5. The 5th Division has just finished investigating a crime scene in the office of Soujiro Gintoki. His android, Eimi, has (for seemingly no reason) jumped out of his fifth floor office to her death. The group is in the elevator, heading out of the building.
Takaharu: Cares about his andoid, is devestated over her "death" and then wants to sell the parts to get his money back. A real sweetheart for sure.
Yukina: An android throws herself out a window. Someone's got a secret.
Junko: We still need to talk to the wife. There could be a breakthrough.
Takaharu: It'd be easier to conceal abuse in the home.
Junko: Kagehito, you'll come with me to get the remains. Katsuaki and Yukina--find this Hoda he spoke of. Takaharu, Akari--go question the wife.
--The elevator opens to the lobby, they get out--
Junko:Meet back at the station. --She and Kagehito start to walk away--
Takaharu: Eh, Kagehito!
--Kagehito turns as Takaharu throws him something--
Takaharu: Thought this might be of interest to you. --It's a used condom in an evidence bag--
Kagehito: (smiling) What a nice gift...
Hope you enjoyed!
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Stuck in Every Way
Cureently Scripting: Chapter 5, Scene 3/4
Artist's Status: Meh
Should there be a foruth murder victim?
When should Captian Suzuki storm the 5th Division's office?
When will Yukina get her big moment?
When should I reveal Junko's past?
Can I learn to draw guns?
Can Mark Webber get his lead back i nthe driver's championship?
These are the questions I've been asking myself lately. I'm very stuck at this point because I'm past the middle of the cript (for the love of God, I am in chapter 5) and I need to start tying things together. So I have to make alot of descions, some I knew I would have to make and others I didn't expect to have to make at all. I'm so confused.
I also think I need to go back and take out some scenes, add in some others, and change the oens taht are left. There are some things I'm very happy with in the script, but I feel that the pacing sometiems gets off. Sometimes, things go very fast, and at other times I feel they are slow. They don't really drag, so that's good, but I'd like a more even pacing so a reader isn't feeling whiplash, you know? If it's too hard to follow, then people will give up.
My other fear is that there is too much going on and it doesn't hold the reader's interest. I don't want to explain too much and spell everything out, but at the same tiem I don't want it to be too ambiguous. I really want it to be that the readers feels that things are very ambiguous and cloudy, but that they inatly feel they udnerstand everything, as if they have always been a part of this world, or that this world is possible. Does that make sense?
I've been fooling around with these new templates, but I still kind of want to come up with my own background or sidebar that features some nifty art. That, and I'd like to go back to the blue/orange color scheme. Maybe I will....
I really need to learn how to code...
Also, i want to post pictures, but since I'm home for the summer, I have no access to photo editing software. All I would really need to do is resize the pictures on the computer so they show up nicely on your screen, but I have no photoshop...all I have is the stuff that comes with windows, and that is usually pretty usless. Grrrr I hate having to go back and forth between school and home, being limitied to what equipment I can bring with me. I have photoshop 6 on my desktop, but that is packed up in pieces in a basement in Illinois, so I'm stuck there....
I'll figure out something. I really need to start posting some stuff on the blog.
Artist's Status: Meh
Should there be a foruth murder victim?
When should Captian Suzuki storm the 5th Division's office?
When will Yukina get her big moment?
When should I reveal Junko's past?
Can I learn to draw guns?
Can Mark Webber get his lead back i nthe driver's championship?
These are the questions I've been asking myself lately. I'm very stuck at this point because I'm past the middle of the cript (for the love of God, I am in chapter 5) and I need to start tying things together. So I have to make alot of descions, some I knew I would have to make and others I didn't expect to have to make at all. I'm so confused.
I also think I need to go back and take out some scenes, add in some others, and change the oens taht are left. There are some things I'm very happy with in the script, but I feel that the pacing sometiems gets off. Sometimes, things go very fast, and at other times I feel they are slow. They don't really drag, so that's good, but I'd like a more even pacing so a reader isn't feeling whiplash, you know? If it's too hard to follow, then people will give up.
My other fear is that there is too much going on and it doesn't hold the reader's interest. I don't want to explain too much and spell everything out, but at the same tiem I don't want it to be too ambiguous. I really want it to be that the readers feels that things are very ambiguous and cloudy, but that they inatly feel they udnerstand everything, as if they have always been a part of this world, or that this world is possible. Does that make sense?
I've been fooling around with these new templates, but I still kind of want to come up with my own background or sidebar that features some nifty art. That, and I'd like to go back to the blue/orange color scheme. Maybe I will....
I really need to learn how to code...
Also, i want to post pictures, but since I'm home for the summer, I have no access to photo editing software. All I would really need to do is resize the pictures on the computer so they show up nicely on your screen, but I have no photoshop...all I have is the stuff that comes with windows, and that is usually pretty usless. Grrrr I hate having to go back and forth between school and home, being limitied to what equipment I can bring with me. I have photoshop 6 on my desktop, but that is packed up in pieces in a basement in Illinois, so I'm stuck there....
I'll figure out something. I really need to start posting some stuff on the blog.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The plotholes fill!
Currently Scripting: Chapter 5 Scene 2
Status: Going Nuts
Well, I am home for the summer which means lots of time to work on Akari, ideally. IDEALLY. If I get off my lazy bum and do some work. But it's hard to be motivated sometimes when I'm feling down. AT home, I don't really have anyone to talk to, and I never have any exciting plans to go anywhere. Most of my high school firends (and there weren't many of them) don't talk to me anymore, which is the natural part of going to college, so it's not like I'm that upset about it. But is does make it kind of lonely and boring, just sitting in my house all the time and surfing the internet...well, I've been doing more sleeping than anything elsse really.
I don't even have a summer job though. So I feel totally worthless about that.
But I have had a rough year at school, so damnit, I devesre to sleep a little bit, right? Right?
I have been working on the script though! I got some good work done yesterday while I was watching Law & Order, which is always a good show. And usually inspires me to write or draw, for some reason. I was just kind of going along like always, when suddenly, everything fell in to place. See, I had this gaping plothole between chapter 5 and the happenings that lead to the ending, and I had no idea how to fill it. Then, with just two lines of dialouge and a deflected bullet, it all made sense and then BAM! plothoel filled. I love these moments. Hopefully from here on out, the script will go alot smoother and then I can get it done and go to the storyboards. But I still need a bunch more in my production sketches. Most of them are really rough, so I feel I should do some more refined ones so I can have clear pictures of everyone and everything. Also, I haven't been doing as many background sketches as I should. I just really hate backgrounds! It's bad of me, and I know I have to do it, but I just don't want to! I'll get down to it eventually. I want to try and do backgrounds in as many panels as possible, so it looks refined and professional. It'd be pretty boring if it was all just white space in the background. However, I also have trouble drawing buildings and tables and other background objects...ARGH it never ends.
And stairs. I always want to put stairs in the background, but I can't draw them! I do this to myself, I swear. Urgh...
Status: Going Nuts
Well, I am home for the summer which means lots of time to work on Akari, ideally. IDEALLY. If I get off my lazy bum and do some work. But it's hard to be motivated sometimes when I'm feling down. AT home, I don't really have anyone to talk to, and I never have any exciting plans to go anywhere. Most of my high school firends (and there weren't many of them) don't talk to me anymore, which is the natural part of going to college, so it's not like I'm that upset about it. But is does make it kind of lonely and boring, just sitting in my house all the time and surfing the internet...well, I've been doing more sleeping than anything elsse really.
I don't even have a summer job though. So I feel totally worthless about that.
But I have had a rough year at school, so damnit, I devesre to sleep a little bit, right? Right?
I have been working on the script though! I got some good work done yesterday while I was watching Law & Order, which is always a good show. And usually inspires me to write or draw, for some reason. I was just kind of going along like always, when suddenly, everything fell in to place. See, I had this gaping plothole between chapter 5 and the happenings that lead to the ending, and I had no idea how to fill it. Then, with just two lines of dialouge and a deflected bullet, it all made sense and then BAM! plothoel filled. I love these moments. Hopefully from here on out, the script will go alot smoother and then I can get it done and go to the storyboards. But I still need a bunch more in my production sketches. Most of them are really rough, so I feel I should do some more refined ones so I can have clear pictures of everyone and everything. Also, I haven't been doing as many background sketches as I should. I just really hate backgrounds! It's bad of me, and I know I have to do it, but I just don't want to! I'll get down to it eventually. I want to try and do backgrounds in as many panels as possible, so it looks refined and professional. It'd be pretty boring if it was all just white space in the background. However, I also have trouble drawing buildings and tables and other background objects...ARGH it never ends.
And stairs. I always want to put stairs in the background, but I can't draw them! I do this to myself, I swear. Urgh...
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