Sent from my iPhone Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Ideas on flash drama cont...
Thought:
The whole microblogging, Twitter, utube....and sound bytes. Flash Dramas (not quite sure it that term has been coined yet) are sound bytes, sight bytes and thought bytes (think bytes?) combined. More later. Sent from my iPhone
The whole microblogging, Twitter, utube....and sound bytes. Flash Dramas (not quite sure it that term has been coined yet) are sound bytes, sight bytes and thought bytes (think bytes?) combined. More later. Sent from my iPhone
The Begging play notes part 2:
Here is some insight and a sneak look at my weird thought process. I've been working on two flash-plays (1-2 mins long.) If things go the way I want they
will be showcased at a venue that makes me very excited. The begging play is based on a dream I had and I'm attempting to flesh it out without losing the dream quality. Some of the notes have been posted on Twitter, but not in this complete format. If you're into the whole looking behind the scenes thing then please enjoy this little DVD extra from my noodle.
L The Begging play notes part 2: 1) Working title: Please,
Please Me (yes, taken from
The Beatles tune) 2) A: a man of undetermined age.
B: a boy or a girl:
Using a little girl as a character could help add the creepiness factor. Plus, there is the whole little girl/ Lolita thing that could be exploited which brings the psych/sexual tension to the forefront. Kind of like Mamet's Oleanna
Also, I'm thinking an actress in her twenties, small, could play a young girl.
In an ideal situation B will be played by an actual young girl... C: A woman of undetermined age B's mother or sister. (ooooh, wait, what if C is the father or brother of B?) Interesting, interesting Hmmmmmmm 3) Completely different thought, need to check my notes on tumblr for other ideas. Been awhile. 4) Back on task (man, I just love iPhone notes app) (legal pad look pumps my gnads.) 5) Hungry. Hope Lin brings me dinner soon
Yay, she brought me din din. 6) Need to put characters in a little scene and see how they behave. 7) A's reactions will be exactly how anyone else from a relatively "normal" background would react. I think. 8) Wonder if I can copy tweets about the play and post them into my notes? 9) And here they are: A. Thinking abt manners and their true function. When we ask someone to 'please' do something are we begging?
B. And when someone asks something of us and we tell them to say 'please' are we telling them that they need to beg?
C. Think: When a child wants something we tell them to ask politely and say please. They expect tmanners to help them achieve their wants and needs.
D. Thus even if they use their manners and we refuse their request they become perplexed and resort to what they have been taught.
E. Sometimes they even come up with their own version of begging, like, 'please, please, please with sugar on top.'
F. They initiate a beta- version of begging. G. And I ramble on. Thoughts on flash plays: A. Thinking about writing two flash plays abt 1-2 minutes long. B. A 1 minute play is easier to write than a 2 minute play. In 1 min you must establish what the main character wants and what he/she will do to get it. C. The second person is either helpful or attempts to stop the first character from achieving what he/she wants.
D. This isn't new, we're talking Aristotle's poetics and David Mamet 101. E. Stretching the premise for 2 mins by adding another character or a secondary situation is difficult without going over the allotted time span. E.2. Just saying.
E.3 Searching through my mental notes I think I found the perfect scenario. F. Now I have to decide if it (the begging play) is a complete dramatic entity or just a fragment of a smaller scene. Flash... G. Flash fiction and flash drama is not simple. H. I'm reminded of William Carlos Williams writing his quick poetic lines on prescription pads. (on Twitter I spelled prescription wrong idiot!) I. I can do this. But each line, hell, each word must contribute to the development of the play. Nothing wasted
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will be showcased at a venue that makes me very excited. The begging play is based on a dream I had and I'm attempting to flesh it out without losing the dream quality. Some of the notes have been posted on Twitter, but not in this complete format. If you're into the whole looking behind the scenes thing then please enjoy this little DVD extra from my noodle.
L The Begging play notes part 2: 1) Working title: Please,
Please Me (yes, taken from
The Beatles tune) 2) A: a man of undetermined age.
B: a boy or a girl:
Using a little girl as a character could help add the creepiness factor. Plus, there is the whole little girl/ Lolita thing that could be exploited which brings the psych/sexual tension to the forefront. Kind of like Mamet's Oleanna
Also, I'm thinking an actress in her twenties, small, could play a young girl.
In an ideal situation B will be played by an actual young girl... C: A woman of undetermined age B's mother or sister. (ooooh, wait, what if C is the father or brother of B?) Interesting, interesting Hmmmmmmm 3) Completely different thought, need to check my notes on tumblr for other ideas. Been awhile. 4) Back on task (man, I just love iPhone notes app) (legal pad look pumps my gnads.) 5) Hungry. Hope Lin brings me dinner soon
Yay, she brought me din din. 6) Need to put characters in a little scene and see how they behave. 7) A's reactions will be exactly how anyone else from a relatively "normal" background would react. I think. 8) Wonder if I can copy tweets about the play and post them into my notes? 9) And here they are: A. Thinking abt manners and their true function. When we ask someone to 'please' do something are we begging?
B. And when someone asks something of us and we tell them to say 'please' are we telling them that they need to beg?
C. Think: When a child wants something we tell them to ask politely and say please. They expect tmanners to help them achieve their wants and needs.
D. Thus even if they use their manners and we refuse their request they become perplexed and resort to what they have been taught.
E. Sometimes they even come up with their own version of begging, like, 'please, please, please with sugar on top.'
F. They initiate a beta- version of begging. G. And I ramble on. Thoughts on flash plays: A. Thinking about writing two flash plays abt 1-2 minutes long. B. A 1 minute play is easier to write than a 2 minute play. In 1 min you must establish what the main character wants and what he/she will do to get it. C. The second person is either helpful or attempts to stop the first character from achieving what he/she wants.
D. This isn't new, we're talking Aristotle's poetics and David Mamet 101. E. Stretching the premise for 2 mins by adding another character or a secondary situation is difficult without going over the allotted time span. E.2. Just saying.
E.3 Searching through my mental notes I think I found the perfect scenario. F. Now I have to decide if it (the begging play) is a complete dramatic entity or just a fragment of a smaller scene. Flash... G. Flash fiction and flash drama is not simple. H. I'm reminded of William Carlos Williams writing his quick poetic lines on prescription pads. (on Twitter I spelled prescription wrong idiot!) I. I can do this. But each line, hell, each word must contribute to the development of the play. Nothing wasted
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
The begging play: Lindy thinks that my idea I dreamt for the 'begging' play' isn't exciting enough to hold an audience's attention. I disagree. If I can capture the unreal feeling that exuded through my dream on stage, that moment of WTF, the disturbing d
The begging play: notes part 1
Lindy thinks that my idea I dreamt for the 'begging' play' isn't exciting enough to hold an audience's attention. I disagree. If I can capture the unreal feeling that exuded through my dream on stage, that moment of WTF, the disturbing discomfort, like the Joker's music in the movie Dark Knight...that underlined insane buzzing of the situation. It must go against the grain of one's ethics and morals and it must hurt like a forked scraped against a chalk board. It must turn everything around and make the innocent protagonist question his own values, make him experience guilt and society must look at him as something deviant all the while the audience knows very well that what they're watching is wrong they leave questioning their own value system.
To be cont...
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Lindy thinks that my idea I dreamt for the 'begging' play' isn't exciting enough to hold an audience's attention. I disagree. If I can capture the unreal feeling that exuded through my dream on stage, that moment of WTF, the disturbing discomfort, like the Joker's music in the movie Dark Knight...that underlined insane buzzing of the situation. It must go against the grain of one's ethics and morals and it must hurt like a forked scraped against a chalk board. It must turn everything around and make the innocent protagonist question his own values, make him experience guilt and society must look at him as something deviant all the while the audience knows very well that what they're watching is wrong they leave questioning their own value system.
To be cont...
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