Usually, I plug the videos in at the end of these Sunday posts. This week, we're doing things a little different.
Please expand to full screen by punching that little button in the bottom right corner of the video frame to get the full effect.
What follows is 10 minutes of sublimely beautiful imagery…
…sublimely
beautiful…
…imagery
that…
…believe
it…
…or
not…
…simply
does…
…not
exist…
…anywhere
in…
…the
real…
….world!
Because…
…every
single…
…frame
was…
…rendered
in…
…a
computer.
Every single image.
There is no setting for your story that is impossible anymore. Perhaps nothing in story telling is impossible anymore, or beyond our technical abilities, or our budgets and our desire to communicate to an audience.
And it's only going to get cheaper and easier.
Good thing because audiences are going to expect more from us. This season, such productions as "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones" will bring epic scale to the small screen and making the audience feel they are truly inside the world of your story will become imperative.
And that means that as a writer, producer or showrunner you need to know as much about how it's done as you can. Sometimes making it look bigger, richer and more believable is cheaper and easier than bringing it to life in any other way.
Here's a sampling of the practical applications from HBO's "John Adams".
Don't write what you think they want. Write what you know you can pull off. And Enjoy your Sunday.
5 comments:
That's some great stuff.
Still, as someone who has been pitching a couple of period pieces lately I'll tell you the first thing you still hear is, "Period pieces are too expensive."
But you're right, we should sill write what we know we can pull off.
Maybe we can't do a "John Adams" quite yet but give Moore's Law another year or two and will be able to create a similar show for the same budget that gives us "The Bridge".
If we can imagine it, we can create it and we can create it on a Canadian sized budget.
But I fear that the driving force of film and television creation in Canada is to generate a production fee and meet CanCon with the least effort. The least effort includes not doing anything that hasn't already been done at least a dozen times... and the success of those past efforts is only measured by how much the glorified line producer got paid and if the show actually fills in the space between American shows while checking off the proper boxes in the forms they send to the regulators back in Ottawa.
For now, I will write the first couple episodes of Space Inc. and then turn them into comic books and the first few chapters of a novel. I don't need anyone's permission or a multi-million dollar budget to do that and who knows, if the comic or novel catch on, maybe HBO or AMC will lure yet another creative down below the 49th.
Jim,
I was wondering if you have contact info?
Mark
Mark,
Feel free to email anytime:
seraphic@sympatico.ca
Jim
It seems as if we are rapidly approaching the era of the virtual celebrity. The virtual characters in movies & TV will be like characters in books. Producers will love it. They won't have to pay them and won't have to worry about them breaking the law (or dying in mid-production).
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