I've not read through the whole thread yet so forgive me if anyone has brought this up, but when working on any sort of long form film like a web-series or television show you want to write what is called a "Bible". Essentially you'll write the back story for every character and the extent of every storyline for the whole show, even past the first season or set of episodes. It's detail that might not ever make it into the show, but it helps tremendously when writing individual screenplays and helps maintain continuity.
For my current project I'm writing an overall chronological storyline, a timeline, and individual character bios. It's a lot of work but it makes things easier down the road.
I'd help out if I could, but I live in California and I'm currently slaving away at my own fan series. I wish you the best of luck, and if you need any advice feel free to ask.
1. I completely understand this, and honestly, I have began doing this for a while now, just haven't uploaded, or wrote it down yet. for a few characters I'm afraid to because of the men in the white coats will come take me away for being so creepy and sinister
(Crane's backstory in general)
And you're right, outline first, then timeline, then backstories, and everything else that is the core of what makes what happen, even though you don't see it, aka make the characters and stories tell themselves in their own right. I have bios up in a few of the previous pages of Bane and Joker (should put scarecrows up... maybe, the men in the white jackets aren't too far away
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I'm interested in your own fan series if you could pm more details with a link or just whatever it is about (never hurts to see what's out there, I've always thought everything you experience in life is to teach you something).
I love this idea i would love to see it happen and in action. When i see a lot more going on and more and more put together ill make donations towards the bane costume!
Thanks! Hopefully we'll all be able to enjoy this story come to life
(and I'll let you know about the bane costume when the time comes
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I've only just come across this, while i haven't read everything I did read most.
I'm going to be really brutally honest with you
(1) I think this sounds like an awesome project. However I think you are way out of your league at the moment if you haven't ever filmed something. While I have mad respect for you thinking big, I would get to grips with some basic camera work.
I can see from your storyboards (will come back to this in a second) that you have an eye for framing. However you need to get yourself a camera a couple friends and shoot a conversation piece. Then edit it together, you will learn so much from this process. I would also recommend copying a scene from a film you like, copy everything you can the camera angles the framing everything you can with what you have. Be realistic I'm not suggesting you shoot the final part of the Avengers here.
(2) Getting back to your storyboards, this isn't a conventional storyboard and most cinematographers won't use this. As mentioned in a previous post, your drawings don't need to be works of art they just need to show the framing in the proper format. They don't need to be amazing works of art i cant stress this enough, Hitchcock's storyboarding skills were amazing, Scorsese's were glorified stick men. If you google examples from both you can see very clearly what camera angles they wanted and what type of shots.
(3) Don't run before you can walk though mate, go get a camera out and make something. Do this today right now, you have no valid excuse not to shoot something today. if you do manage to think of something, then ask yourself are they really valid or is it just you stopping yourself?
(4) Shoot something. It will be horrible, I mean horrible, thats fine no one is forcing you to upload it to youtube and show us. Use it for yourself and work out whats wrong with it what are the mistakes you will overcome on your next shoot. Shoot something again, getting better? Proud of your results? Show us get some feedback, good feedback is great something that can inflate some ego and boost confidence, but some serious crit is what you're really after, if they can back it up with some suggestions even better. Take it like a man, understand your audience and get back behind the camera. Repeat.
(5) Go for it mate and good luck.
I humbly agree with that... from what I must appear to sound like = :rolleyes and reality = :confused
That being said, I do understand "I need a bigger boat" so to speak, I haven't made anything yet so I won't know how it works, so until then I won't be able to, but that doesn't mean that I can't write or picture how things will be, then as I learn hands on with other projects I'll be able to revise what I already have done to make it work, I take what you say as constructive criticism as I understand what you are saying
2. Yeah... I was just having fun. It's on the list of to do's to sketch the storyboard as it 'should' be done, not like a comic (which most of my art pertains to).
3. Truth- the only limitation is yourself. I have the day off, so I may get something shot if I can get my brother to help me
4. Try Try Again. Yes, I know from experience that's how it goes :wacko
5. Thank you
