Transmedia Influences

As my interest in understanding how different people are creating different transmedia bodies of work, I stumbled on Kris Straub's Local58 series of 'nostalgia horror'. I've also watched a few others in the nostalgia horror genre but Local58 has stuck with me. The sense of dread from elements in the videos that scare me in…

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Transmedia

The idea of a book, TV show, or movie having deeper world-building through extending the story or universe across different mediums has interested me for a few years now. As part of my MFA, I undertook a project to create a website based on the manuscript I was writing. The site (haptai.com) is for the…

1000 Pages and Counting

I guess when I was told a javascript script wasn't working I should have listened. But no, I had to find out for myself. I tested the script by printing, the script ran and moved the document from one queue to another. An error message appeared in the queue, the print showed as 1 page,…

Horse Riding

So, I was on my usual horse today. I wasn't dreading it as much as I thought I was and the lesson went okay after a shaky start. It was 9am - first lesson of the day, first lesson for the horse as well and she takes a bit to get going. I felt better…

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We're reading Candide by Voltaire on our Literature course. The philosophy it deals with - be happy because things are as they should be in the world - has made me think. Voltaire talks about - well, what is a world - my world, your world, the world - are different places considered different worlds.…

Work

Went back to work today after a week off. I love days when a lot of bulk gets done. We sorted out the music PCs - after 3 long weeks of rebuilding, testing software, failing, trying again. Then, finally, success! They are all hooked up to the Yamaha midi keyboards and they all work. Trial…

Lights!

In my first essay on the Duchess of Malfi, we have to consider how we would stage one of the scenes. In researching this it has turned my mind to lighting in tv, film and plays. Drive was the first movie I watched where the lighting really struck me. I found it fascinating to learn…

You Are Home

You Are Home Gravel crunched under the tires. The sound of home on Cape Cod. Amy came to a stop at the back of the house and cut the engine. She looked out of the bug-spattered windshield at the neglected house looming before her. Weeds poked through the drive. She glimpsed more weeds from the…

Troy

Troy ‘I’ll get it, Mom,’ Dex called out as he loped down the stairs. ‘If it’s Grandpa send him out to the backyard to keep an eye on the barbecue,’ his mother called back from the kitchen. ‘I said I’d do the barbecue.’ ‘I don’t want you doing anything on your last day here.’ Dex…

Ahuvati – Screenplay Version

The assignment was to write this in spec script style: Ahuvati Screenplay