Post by Kyon on Nov 7, 2010 22:30:42 GMT -5
I had an idea for a thread - criticism and questions welcome.
It took me quite some time to come up with an idea - I noticed one thing that seemed to be a recurring problem, a lot of people face difficulty illustrating their thoughts because there's always someone who will come up with something quicker. That's a fact of life, isn't it? Except, hopefully, this isn't life, so we more or less can tell the tape to stop once we hit STOP or PAUSE, and can pick it up again with PLAY.
Aside from that, the point of this thread is simple. We will be organizing a play to present to [this forum]. Of course, this play does not have to be a serious one, it can be silly, spontaneous, romantic, dramatic, violence, gratuitous, sexual, tragic, sad, depressing, revolve around noir or fantasy - whatever.
The play will begin with a specific plot, where it goes after that is up to you. One rule - it cannot resort to scriptless fighting (yes, I did look at this). We are depicting a story here, and while there can be violence, it cannot be scriptless. Every scene must have some kind of "bottom caption" to detail what's going on in each scene.
We can stray from the plot I begin, but we cannot go from:
A) A space epic where the crew of a ship is fighting an alien intruder.
to
B) A castle story about pretty pink ponies that can fire ice cream lasers from their horns.
Acceptable ranges of spontaneity:
A) We were settling a dispute between two mob families
when suddenly
B) A superhero named Frank showed up and proposed a peace offering
but then
C) The mob decided not to surrender and opened fire on him
yet he
D) Beat up the bad guys and went home and watched TV.
Will we follow Frank, or will we follow the surviving mafiosos? That part, however, is up to whoever has their turn next.
But, to entertain the audience within a specific frame, we're going to organize the order in which this play occurs.
THIS was when I was going to originally make a thread but decided to get opinions on the idea first:
That sounds contradicting, but here's how it goes. As you'll see, I haven't provided a picture, because I require participants. At least 3 participants are recommended (I once saw a troupe of three people perform Shakespeare, I'm sure a bunch of teens with Microsoft Paint can make it just as well). The list will always be kept/updated here. Follow the list, the play will follow the order of the next person on the list (whose name will be in bold) and will not proceed until that person finishes their addition to it. Then the next person can go.
Simply PM me or post in this thread if you would like to participate in the play. We have no limit on how many people, however, you will have to wait your turn before you can add to it:
1. Kyon
2. Icebrigade
3. Zarth
4. Il Nostro Valore
5. ElemAntell
6. Metal Chao
7. Grimscott
8. The Omnipresence
9. DryChris
It took me quite some time to come up with an idea - I noticed one thing that seemed to be a recurring problem, a lot of people face difficulty illustrating their thoughts because there's always someone who will come up with something quicker. That's a fact of life, isn't it? Except, hopefully, this isn't life, so we more or less can tell the tape to stop once we hit STOP or PAUSE, and can pick it up again with PLAY.
Aside from that, the point of this thread is simple. We will be organizing a play to present to [this forum]. Of course, this play does not have to be a serious one, it can be silly, spontaneous, romantic, dramatic, violence, gratuitous, sexual, tragic, sad, depressing, revolve around noir or fantasy - whatever.
The play will begin with a specific plot, where it goes after that is up to you. One rule - it cannot resort to scriptless fighting (yes, I did look at this). We are depicting a story here, and while there can be violence, it cannot be scriptless. Every scene must have some kind of "bottom caption" to detail what's going on in each scene.
We can stray from the plot I begin, but we cannot go from:
A) A space epic where the crew of a ship is fighting an alien intruder.
to
B) A castle story about pretty pink ponies that can fire ice cream lasers from their horns.
Acceptable ranges of spontaneity:
A) We were settling a dispute between two mob families
when suddenly
B) A superhero named Frank showed up and proposed a peace offering
but then
C) The mob decided not to surrender and opened fire on him
yet he
D) Beat up the bad guys and went home and watched TV.
Will we follow Frank, or will we follow the surviving mafiosos? That part, however, is up to whoever has their turn next.
But, to entertain the audience within a specific frame, we're going to organize the order in which this play occurs.
THIS was when I was going to originally make a thread but decided to get opinions on the idea first:
That sounds contradicting, but here's how it goes. As you'll see, I haven't provided a picture, because I require participants. At least 3 participants are recommended (I once saw a troupe of three people perform Shakespeare, I'm sure a bunch of teens with Microsoft Paint can make it just as well). The list will always be kept/updated here. Follow the list, the play will follow the order of the next person on the list (whose name will be in bold) and will not proceed until that person finishes their addition to it. Then the next person can go.
Simply PM me or post in this thread if you would like to participate in the play. We have no limit on how many people, however, you will have to wait your turn before you can add to it:
1. Kyon
2. Icebrigade
3. Zarth
4. Il Nostro Valore
5. ElemAntell
6. Metal Chao
7. Grimscott
8. The Omnipresence
9. DryChris
