Supernatural - Creating John Winchester's Journal

Honestly, I'd prefer no repeating text. Works for a TV show where they want to bulk it up, but for something you can hold in your hands and look through, the repeating text is an instant tell that it's just .. well .. not 'real.' Remember, the journal has a three ring binder, so it's easy to add new stuff later on as new stuff is discovered, it's not like it's a permanent binding.
 
Kerr Avon said:
Honestly, I'd prefer no repeating text. Works for a TV show where they want to bulk it up, but for something you can hold in your hands and look through, the repeating text is an instant tell that it's just .. well .. not 'real.' Remember, the journal has a three ring binder, so it's easy to add new stuff later on as new stuff is discovered, it's not like it's a permanent binding.
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I agree completely. I am not going to use the repeated text in the journal I am making for my daughter. But that means that some of the pages (like the ones in "As Time Goes By") will not be screen accurate (the graphics will be accurate, but the text will not).

Thank you for your opinion on the matter. If anyone else has an opinion, please share.

:)
 
I agree with Kerr. For me, the appeal of the hunter's journal is that it is a raggedy compendium of information gathered through experience, blood, tears, and a lot of stabbing. You know when Bobby has the leviathan tied up in the basement, and is attempting to work out how to kill it - picture that, then imagine how on Earth anyone found out that the way to kill an Okami is by stabbing it seven times with a bamboo dagger blessed by a Shinto priest. Or, you know, woodchipper.

It's supposed to be added to and revised. Even some parts were wrong, like the information about the Vetala, and would presumably be updated. It's something handed down and added on to. I'd rather have a journal that felt real and could be personalised.

I'd love to be able to pay for the pdf, thus skipping shipping a heavy wad of paper, but then you'd have no way of preventing people from stealing and re-selling your hard work, and somebody totally would :(
 
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Pixels said:
I agree with Kerr. For me, the appeal of the hunter's journal is that it is a raggedy compendium of information gathered through experience, blood, tears, and a lot of stabbing. You know when Bobby has the leviathan tied up in the basement, and is attempting to work out how to kill it - picture that, then imagine how on Earth anyone found out that the way to kill an Okami is by stabbing it seven times with a bamboo dagger blessed by a Shinto priest. Or, you know, woodchipper.

It's supposed to be added to and revised. Even some parts were wrong, like the information about the Vetala, and would presumably be updated. It's something handed down and added on to. I'd rather have a journal that felt real and could be personalised.

I'd love to be able to pay for the pdf, thus skipping shipping a heavy wad of paper, but then you'd have no way of preventing people from stealing and re-selling your hard work, and somebody totally would :(
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Thank you for your post, I really appreciate your thoughtful opinion. :)
 
I agree as well. The repeated text is probably just to bulk up the book for the screen. Instead of getting new text for everything, they probably recycle pages just as filler, so for the replicas repeated text would serve no purpose. I'm not so sure if Sam and Dean would add things, it seems as though they turn to the journal when they're in trouble and wouldn't need to check the journal for things they already know. The journal was a way for John to vent and keep track of his thoughts, but Sam and Dean have each other for that. However, for our purposes I think it's a cool idea to add all the things they learn throughout, like all the information on angels and the like.

I think if you were to sell the pages, a pdf would be the best option. That way people could pick and choose which specific pages they wanted to add to their journal and leave out ones they didn't want, or add them later. Also, editable template pages would be a great addition for people to have blanks and make their own pages. Say somewhere in season 9 or 10 this week in Feb, 1990 shows up, the spread you made would be "inaccurate". With the editable template we could change up the date for that week so we had blanks and recreate whatever we saw in the show. And anyone with experience in photoshop or what have you could surely change the dates on the awesome spread you made and fit it in somewhere else.

As Pixels said "you'd have no way of preventing people from stealing and re-selling your hard work", but I'd like to think that if you were dealing with strictly people from the forum you wouldn't have that problem, as we would respect the terms of the purchase to not distribute your hard work. Of course I'm just spit balling ideas here if you do decide to market this, and trying to reassure you that your hard work wouldn't be disrespected. Have I mentioned your pages look amazing? They look amazing.
 
Thank you for your ideas. I can see you all have put a lot of thought into it and it is very helpful.

This project started out as purely a fun enterprise for my daughter and I. She has been ill and it is a way to cheer her up. I'm not sure if I am going to commercialize the pages, and if I do, I will have to think carefully about how to go about it.

I do appreciate everyone's support.

:)
 
I'll be working on finishing my EMF meter project for the next few days. I'll be back with some more pages next week.

:)
 
I gotta say your pages look amazing .. i wish i was familiar with photoshop would of saved me the trouble of doing all my pages by hand lol :facepalm
 
phillydon21 said:
Yea they are mine :$ thank you very much . If i would of had the pages that RPFKOV is doing it would of been awesome lol her script and pages are dead on !
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Your pages were beautiful! Made me want to try my hand at it. I bet the tactile sensation is nicer, with the indents from the ink and the clippings etc.
 
Pixels said:
I bet the tactile sensation is nicer, with the indents from the ink and the clippings etc.
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That's my feeling as well. If RPFKOV were to release her prints, I think I would go over each of them with ink just to get the impressions on the paper. I think it would give it a more authentic look/feel while having each page being more screen accurate than if free-handing them.
 
This is true lol , but if RPFKOV ever does over the pages blank down the line i will most def be in line and kicking myself in the ass too for having to do all my pages over :cry
 
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