SSGH update
So it's been about a month since my last post and I assure you I have been working.
Not gonna re-do cards, but so far 3 sheets of paper serving as scene details has come in handy.
It's not all been outlines and sub-outlines either: I've been in the trenches, down in the dirty, writing past the Fade In: . Yay me!
At this rate, I'll be done with my first draft by my goal of mid-October.
Since SSGH is an action/family genre, I'll also be viewing and taking notes on several movies in the same genre. I know, I know.. I should be reading the screenplays instead, but I'll save that for the next step for the films I think will be really useful. The first 10 films to watch are
Goonies
Adventures in Babysitting
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Eragon
Speed Racer
Peter Pan
Spirited Away
The Last Starfighter
Short Circuit
Ice Age
80% of those I have already seen, but it'll be interesting to rewatch them with a critical eye. A few of the things I want to look at are act breaks, character development, how themes are treated, and age appropriateness. Peter Pan and Spirited Away are younger than my target audience, but what the hell :-)
Not gonna re-do cards, but so far 3 sheets of paper serving as scene details has come in handy.
It's not all been outlines and sub-outlines either: I've been in the trenches, down in the dirty, writing past the Fade In: . Yay me!
At this rate, I'll be done with my first draft by my goal of mid-October.
Since SSGH is an action/family genre, I'll also be viewing and taking notes on several movies in the same genre. I know, I know.. I should be reading the screenplays instead, but I'll save that for the next step for the films I think will be really useful. The first 10 films to watch are
Goonies
Adventures in Babysitting
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Eragon
Speed Racer
Peter Pan
Spirited Away
The Last Starfighter
Short Circuit
Ice Age
80% of those I have already seen, but it'll be interesting to rewatch them with a critical eye. A few of the things I want to look at are act breaks, character development, how themes are treated, and age appropriateness. Peter Pan and Spirited Away are younger than my target audience, but what the hell :-)
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