sick of the pink

hmmmmmm, the pink!
especially when i was scrolling through blogs and i came across another one with the same template that was for some crazed fundamentalist christians from mid-west usa...
i really need to rig up a decent template myself...don't really want to waste too much time on this though...
maybe p0ut some pics together...


anyway...spent quite a bit of time re-writing up the 'script' as such./..
sequences of images and ideas in text form that expand upon the visual images that sketched up in pencil...
now i really need to flesh out these images...
i noticed how frustrating it was when writing in word doc...that i breally wanted to sketch the sequences then and there..
but couldn't be bothered adding another column to my table and then switching softwars to draw,,,
so i just ploughed on with the writing bits..
meantime, surfing through many PND blogs and sites...lots of pithy quotes eher and there that add to the "dialogue" part of the film...
i am still in two minds about the 'dialogue'/'voice-over...really wanted to try and do it WITHOUT voice...unless it is diagetic...
but we'll see... will add these lines anyway...some of them flesh things out...dewscribe elements not necessarily visualised..
like a yin/yang thing...they shoudl prop each other up...

also grabbed a bunch of books again from the libabry about scriptwriting...
mainly to start putting together a succinct Vidsual writing methodology for animation...
grabbing evidence as such of what is currently written about the way animated 'scripts' are crafted...
my argument is that short films (animated films) rely conspicuously in the visual script in crafting the 'story'..and not the written word script...
particulary when you are working independently or with a small crew..
the major example of this weas working obn "the Way of the Boirds" with Sarah Watt... it truly opened my eyes to the whole concept of visual storytelling and scripting..largely because i had been working in mainstream production pipelines for so many years before that...by the time it got to me in the layout or animation department...(even storyboarding things) it was largely a join-the-dots activity...it was SO locked in to the written script we really didn't have to think much...just make great visyuals out of what was there...regardless of how flimsy and stupid most of the 'scripts' were - even on paper...
and the fact that there was little understanding from the writers point of view about the magical penetrative and  transformative qaulities in animation - they were SO literal, and severely based on live-action film sit-com style - which MOST TV animation remains (eg Simpsons et al).
anyway...some interesting bits and pieces gathered...
now to put it together into a methodological argument..
as i said...I have been supervising, teaching and practising the 'organic visual' approach to animation short story development for nearly 10 years now, so it's time to put it into some form of a Paper,..
at least to get it Down on paper so it's like a "how-to" as a teaching method...in the same way we have so many 'how-to' books for the traditional approach to scriptwriting, or technical elements including 'cinematography' framing, editing etc for animation.
thankfully there IS  a few books around now that address this JUST for animation - will be helpful for teaching too..

there's a conference in sydney coming up...think i need to get the abstract in by tomorrow! - and it's in June.
will be a good draft for a 'chapter' in the exegesis...
if in fact, i can make it more coherent than THIS.

meantime, also need to get back to the drawing board...
too much typing lately...
will post up the 'script outline' - draft 2

time for a beer now