All Consuming Principle (need to change this title)
Its been a long time since the Consumed film project was first mooted. Some footage has been produced (links here) but the final film was never produced. I think this is due in part to the brilliant script. Thats not sarcasm. The original Consumed script was brilliant. It also was one that we found hard to complete. There will shortly be a video blog telling the story of the script, the crew from a producers point of view, but the short version is - not everything came together.
All is not lost however. I’ve have been watching the Web video and have come up with a way of telling the zombie story behind Consumed. Not with the original script - that will wait for the right day to be made. This is what will happen instead. The principles behind the Consumed zombies will be published and I will follow those principles to make some very short films. Cameos of the action if you like. Each one showing a fragment from the overall story of the Consumed story arc. The objective here is to build up a feel for the Consumed ‘Universe’ because I would like to throw the gauntlet open to other Zombie fans. Make your own film true to the Consumed mythos and lets build up the story of the society being ‘Consumed’ by a rising tide of Zombies.
So here’s the plan. I’ll shortly release a video and a PDF that talks about the idea of opening up the Consumed universe and then I will produce some very short vignette pieces that set the tone. Slowly we’ll build Consumed up into a great Zombie story.
Until then watch out - there may be a zombie behind you.
A quick note of an established Arts web site starting an overhaul project. Their intention is to improve both visual design and user experience over a three month period. This is being done in a very open way by asking members of their community what they would want.
Its a good idea to do this - your community is a great source of information about your product.
I’ll keep an eye on this project - it could be something that is interesting to watch being developed
There is something that I intend to look into during the coming weeks. That is the rise of online publishing amongst the more digitally aware members of the mainstream entertainment community. I’m not talking about Radio 1 or Radio 2 DJ updating a blog - the current BBC policy seems to be about giving as many of their shows and staff as possible a blog (thought that is interesting in itself). No I’m talking about true individual forays into the online world by serious writers, actors and presenters.
Here are a couple of the leaders in this area.
Stephen Fry
Robert Llewellyn (Also the currently in Alpha llewtube.com)
The car door closed with a slam and immediately his breath started to steam up the windscreen. He was bundled on the drivers seat. Bags, coat, sweat and all. He was shaking, and his thoughts were trying to focus on the car key, it was sort in his hand but everything was akimbo. He was out of step, confused, dislocated and all in all a mess.
Still breathing heavily he managed to lock the door. All the doors clunked tightly into place. He was sealed off, encased in steel and glass. He was isolated, from what was out there. That still did not make things feel any easier.
His hands were still shaking to much to start the engine. His hands were still shaking too much to make a call on his ‘phone.
Nothing was working. Except for this sweat glands, and his memory. Perhaps his imagination. It was the same scene over and again. Never stopping, never relenting and worse each time.
Something caught his attention. He heard something.
Then it was silent.
Then a body slammed into the side of his car.
He screamed and it roared.
This is a simple post.
It is high time that the long spun out series about writing online was joined together by a single round up page. In other words a table of contents.
It’s a simple guide. How to start, what to use to write and top tools for publishing your words. That’s the impetus and technical side covered. Now for an important word of advice.
Don’t expect a lot to happen at once. So whilst you are waiting make sure that you write for yourself and with passion. Write what you need to write.
Don’t write to get noticed or to try and make money; that rarely works out. If you’re trying to create commercial looking work,then that’s how it will look. You may think that is ok. However the chances are that people will take a quick cynical look and move on. The web is full of original content and that is what people want. The best way to be original is to write for yourself and with passion.
If you do that then people will come.
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I’d like to introduce you to :
http://www.dwaynetucker.com/blog/
It is the blog of Dwayne DC Tucker II who is very passionate about advertising, design and photography.
Its a simple blog - Dwayne updates it with a nice combination of personal chat and useful photography tips. Dwayne comes to problems in photography with a point of view that includes elements of practicality, design and photography.
In this blog Dwayne does something that particularly interests me - he blends the technicalities of capturing or enhancing an image with the emotional side of photography. Photography is art, it is meant to affect feelings. Sometimes this gets lost in talk about camera’s, lighting arrangements, and camera settings. Its nice to see it getting a mention here.
I’d recommend this blog, as something to dip into regularly (or better still subscribe to). It is able to make you think about your own work, and that really is the key to creative photography. Think about your work and then incorporate some good lessons or good ideas into your pictures.
This will improve your photography and this blog will help you do this. It is a good source of inspiration and information.
Idea play from putting together films about a world where the dead have started to walk the earth. You’ll learn more details in the future, for now though here are ideas.
The TV was muted, and showed another graveyard being burned. Something moved under the ground. Soldiers fired heavy machine guns from the backs armoured cars; the things in the ground were going to stay there and burn.
A quick fade to the news reader, statistics of todays latest burnings and the death toll and..
There was scuffling outside the door. The door to the outside world that was luckily three floors above ground level. The door that by hard work and intent was barricaded with as much furniture as possible.
Still the sound of them outside, shuffling around could be heard.
He watched the news and listened to their noises.
Sweating in layers of clothes and coats. Trying his best to be bite proof.
They scratched the door again. Scratching and pushing. It was the tenth time today.
