WIP Update – 18 Aug 14
I made some good progress on Chapter 13 of Tico4 and did a little work on Chapter 14 as well.
As you should know, rather than being centered on any one character, the Tico series relies on its ensemble cast to give you a wider view of the story. Scripting becomes a little difficult when you take all these charas who are the mains in their own little microcosms and put them together. You don’t want to weigh the performances too heavily in one direction or another, but also you have to deal with the relative perspectives of the active leads, which can be a little disconcerting when you’re used to a different perspective. For instance, if Matt is the active lead, Jeff isn’t Jeff but “Lieutenant Wallace” and for Jeff, Matt isn’t Matt but rather “Major Harold” (“Colonel Harold” now, technically).
When it comes to how I portray characters in their own sections, I often use their first names because I feel it makes them more relatable to the audience even though it doesn’t always fit for how some characters think of themselves. Someone like Miranda doesn’t actually think about herself using her first name, but particularly since I have two Grissons in the cast, it’s simpler this way. Someone like Commodore Frazier, on the other hand, I’d like to refer to as “Blake”, but I don’t feel we got close enough to him early on to warrant it and just stuck with the more formal label for consistency’s sake. Yes, I really do think this much about stuff like this.
That’s enough rambling for now. More to come. Stay tuned.
Tags: Space Arc, Tico4, Ticonderoga, WIP Update
Space Arc, Tico4, Ticonderoga, WIP Update | James Carmack | 19 August 2014 |
