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Day Glo's Collaborations
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Expanding on my short story Nightsfall. Please record a reading of the poem from the story! If we look to turn this into a short film then some visuals would be nice, too. |
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Hello everybody. I'd meant to start this collab earlier in the week but it slipped my mind. By now a few of you have read my poem "Icarus Fell". As I stated in that thread, the myth is one of my favourites, and I'd like to make a short film based on it. This is something I planned out a couple of years ago but was never able to make. Rather than a re-telling of Daedalus and Icarus's captivity and escape, I want to tell the story of what happened AFTER Icarus fell. I'll be writing this all up into proper prose narration over the coming weeks. The story that I came up with deviates from the myth. It wasn't the failure of his wings that caused Icarus to fall, but simply the heat of the sun. In fact, far from damaging his wings, they fused permanently to his arms. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a strange land where he does not speak the language. The locals treat him with distrust. So he leaves, and travels the world, trying to find his way back to Athens. On his travels, he meets a beautiful girl. They do not speak the same language, so in order to win her heart, he brings her all kinds of extraordinary gifts, finally having the courage to return to the sky, and fly all the way back up to the sun. Reaching it, he not only touches it (despite the incredible heat) but takes a piece of it back down to the girl. I'd like a montage at this point of the two of them watching the progress of civilisation. It would end with the sun dead, the two of them alone together on a chunk of rock in space, with their little orb of sunlight keeping them warm and lit. The drawings here are my initial concept drawings from a couple of years ago. Although my Icarus here has dark hair, he really should be more Hellenic (who I believe were blond?). Hit me with whatever you've got! |
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2011: Ha, so, Ozie and Lawrie convinced me (it didn't take much) to revisit this for the new Fall Formal. I'll leave all the old stuff up, though we should probably plan from the ground up. 2010: PREVIOUSLY, ON THE HITRECORD HEIST: HitRECord received a mysterious ransom note, claiming that the community's precious creativity had been taken hostage! Although several RECorders try to call out the kidnappers on a perceived bluff, the situation escalates with the apparent abduction of several key members of HitRECord: Wirrow, Metaphorest and Haus of Glitch. With panic spreading, RegularJoe and Marke plot to free the famous three and recover their creativity before it is too late... ----------------------------------------------------------- OK, so the ransom note went down pretty well! I had 4 pages of notifications this morning due to hearts and responses to the note and the original heist plan. Please read the earlier materials in order to contribute fully to this collab: we're aiming for several short films involving a team of HitRECorders pulling off this rescue/heist, backstage at the Fall Formal. Let's go to work. |
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When Joe asked for ideas of public domain stories, characters and plots, the first thing that came to my mind was the legend of King Arthur. Now, Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have gone through so many interpretations and incarnations that no one should feel any great need to adhere to popular models of Camelot. Make up your own stories. Hell; we could make up our own knights. Presumably the best-known version of the Arthurian legends is T.H. White's 'The Once and Future King', or the Disney adaptation of the first part of White's work, 'The Sword in the Stone'. Obviously the Disney work is still protected by copyright, but as far as I can work out, White's initial book is not. I could be wrong. Regardless, most of the well-known legends predate it. There many, many ways in which we could approach this rich and (certainly for me) exciting mythology, but I was struck by Ntheon mentioning that religious texts were public domain; before you raise a quizzical brow, no, I'm not suggesting a cross-over in which Arthur and Jesus are a pair of hilariously mismatched cops (although...). What I rather had in mind was in telling the story of Arthur in an epistolary manner, with different knights - or other characters - contributing their own "gospels" of how it went down in their own eyes. I need to stress at this point that I really intend to do Kay the justice denied him by every version I've encountered. He's often either a bully or a lout, though he's always witty, and often a skilled warrior. Who else shall we turn to? Maybe someone has a soft spot for Bors, or Gawain? Will the doomed love of Tristan and Iseult get the HitRECord treatment? Over to you guys. (Apologies, I don't know how to make this a "result" of various discussions, but these are the relevant: http://www.hitrecord.org/records/45093 http://www.hitrecord.org/records/26047 http://www.hitrecord.org/records/46632 So, uh, yeah. Fun.) |
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