How do you make your script idea truly original? How many ideas do you have? How do you use your ideas to better develop your work? Gordy discusses a method to develop your story ideas into a distinctive script.
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Extremely valuable…Art(written/sung/painted etc) is an emotional translator. What emotion do you want your audience to feel? What do you want them to learn? Are there common threads that run thru your ideas? Combine them in an original way…Loved this video…and I’m going to do just that…
Oh wow I love this idea! I have so many half-baked things hanging around on the hard drive that I don’t want to throw out *just in case* and I’m sure a bunch of them are travelling around the same themes I’m already working through in other scripts. What a great way to make things bigger. Thanks!!!
I agree 100%. Sometimes I try to force an unused idea into my current script and it doesn’t work so on those occasions I have to be honest and toss it.
I have felt the same way over a number of years, as I have so many ideas borne of never stopping to seek ‘the story’ in every moment that snags the corners of my consciousness. Some of these ideas I have started to write out into story formats, others remain notes. Along the way I have also realised though, that I may only have the one long format story in me. I have no ambitions to become an industry insider at all, so am happy in my work of waiting to shape just one, original story over my lifetime. I’ve written and had published poetry and flash/hybrid stories, which are formats my temperament is more in tune with, but I do love the idea of one great magnum opus shaped over years. Watch this great, open space!
I thought the cat in the video was quite appropriate for being BlueCat 🙂
H Steve – great point – what i do or am doing is lifting characters or plot turns from the back burner scripts and dropping them in the current front of mind piece and see what happens – if it resolves a structural knot…