Update from the typeface
If you happen to be near Barcelona tomorrow and fancy going to the SITGES International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, Not Yet is being screened at the Auditori.
Not yet – 30sec Teaser from Tito Sacchi on Vimeo.
I co-wrote Not Yet with director Tito Sacchi, helping him refine his story and producing several different dialogue tracks, internal monologues for Simon, the character portrayed by Michael Gilroy. From the start I was convinced that the piece needed no such explanations, that it would stand up on the visuals alone. In the end we went with just the haunting, original score, composed by Peter Godfrey, and the strong visual storytelling that Tito is so remarkable at.
It was a great project to be involved with. Ben Mourra, the producer, and Tito assembled a fantastic crew, creating an atmosphere that was passionate, yet laid back, and always professional.
Jim Campbell has joined Larry and I working on the Ionmonger’s Daughter. He will be lettering Larry’s artwork in the coming months. Fingers crossed my dialogue won’t be too much of a pain to work with. You can see Jim Campbell’s lettering samples over at ComicSpace.
I’m still happily hacking away at the typeface, taking the nuggets I find and building them into my scripts.
I’ve just begun work on Sun Moon, I’m about halfway through the second chapter and currently discovering, inventing the characters voices and refining their personalities. I already have a very detailed outline to follow but until you begin writing the characters they don’t really come alive. When I’m happy, I’ll no doubt begin altering my plan, as the found voices will subtly change the outline, suggest new scenes and ways of approaching existing ones.
Doing exactly the same with Everything Ends, the feature film script I’m working on with Tito. I’m just about at the midpoint and desperately resisting the temptation to go back and revise, when I should be pushing on to the end. There’s too much of the perfectionist coming out in me, at least for these early stages of script development.
On a different note, Insomnia Publications had a fantastic weekend at BICS, see the BICS and Pieces blog post over at The Red Eye, while Cy Dethan’s The Citadel Of Comics – A Fantasy Convention In Which YOU Are The Hero! is worth any old school adventurer’s time for another perspective.