I want to have an open mind here. I have ideas, but no firm vision.
Influences: The Beastie Boys Book, Cloud Atlas, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Things to learn from Star Wars: sound effects, audio universe, mythic quality, keep it simple, Musical Themes, Instantly recognizeable sillhouettes can still apply to audio fiction in description and in vocal qualities of the actors.
I'd like to write it like it's a novel of scripts if that makes sense. A complete story front to back that I can record and edit and parse out. Pad out and do spontaneous episodes as well if I feel the need.
Premise:
A guy called the Timescanner used to be a Time Agent and now he's stuck in a Time Crystal at the Heat Death of the Universe doing a raidon broadcast to Time Agents in the Field. A sort of This Non-Linear Life.
I could do other broadcasts as well to broaden who is telling the story, but that might overcomplicate things. It does go along with my novel concept better to do that though. And if it was all written before producing it that would help.
What is at stake?
Timescanner getting out of the Crystal, the mystery of why he's there in the first place, possibly the living organism of time itself is also in danger and Timescanner is the key to that.
Idea 1: Timescanner hatches plan to escape from Cyrstal, which endangers the Omniverse. Possibly rendering Time Travel impossible. Good Forces look for him to put him back in, bad forces look for him to replace him. he has his own plan.
Idea 2: TS becomes simply the Narrator, the Journalist of the Whills who is telling someone else's story. Possibly the story of his replacement? enabling him to leave the Crystal at the end? This could be sorta like VALIS if done right. He's the narrator. He's telling the story of Sophia as raised by Richard. We don't know that Richard is his alternate timeline self until the end. Interspersed with this story we would tell backstory on the League, The Counter-Time Forces, How TS got into the Crystal and the incident that happened when he escaped that made time travel impossible.
If I were to have this all written I could pad it out with tangents as needed and that would rock. Ideally I would write and edit it all including doing all the voices myself and sound editing and then have voice actors record huge swaths of the run all at once once I knew exactly what was needed of them. Ask them to not spoil anything and call them back once a year to do more episodes I wrote to fill in other bits.
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How would I tell that story? What's a good way to structure it? It's not that different from plans I had 4 years ago. I just need to plan it all out really well and write it all so I'm not flying by the seat of my pants. I could conceivably have the bulk of 6 years of work or more done and could focus on the business side of things and not feel stress at finishing the work and delivering it.
what can i do today? I can find all the pieces and the seeds and put them into this blog to be written and re-written and put into an outline.
so about that stucture:
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Freewrite: language is the source of disorientation. Even famous and supposedly smart filmmaker Christopher Nolan recently expressed his confusion over mirrors. Why do they "flip" images left to right and not flip the up and down? I was an adult before the onvious answer came to me as well so no shame being thrown. But the answer is that it doesn't flip anything at all. It represents a 1:1 correlation of the image reflected. shapes to your right are reflected on your right and left on your left and top to top and down to down. This is all perfectly intuitive and the only thing that makes it confusing is the language on your t-shirt is difficult to read. Language is so intricately linked to our sense of reality that when NIKE becomes EKIN we assume the reality we see has been flipped left to right right to left. It's a problem only that
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