Way, waaaay back when, I was hellbent on this story that was originally an RP that went on for years, and turning it into an awesome CGI animated film and everything would be… awesome. I used to write stories all the time, but the most I got was 36 pages and then I realised it had no direction whatsoever.
Well, now I’ve actually got some grasp of reality, that most certainly isn’t happening =P Apart from the fact it’s insanely difficult to become a director in Britain (too many directors, not enough animators), the story isn’t really hollywood blockbuster stuff in the slightest, it’s far too long, it’s not perfect and so on. And I’m so attached to it, I probably can’t see the flaws in it, of which I’m sure there’s many.
But I’m still attached to it.
So I had the idea that I’d do something with it, but not like a film or anything - a comic or graphic novel, to develop my storytelling skills, and give myself a project that, since I’m so attached to it, I’ll probably actually finish it.
I visited my old 6th form today to get a reference (my old boss lost all our paperwork, apparently) and as an excuse to say hi, because looking back at my 6th form tutors 60% of them were fucking awesome and I miss the environment - our 6th form was so small, everyone knew each other and you actually bonded with the tutors and stuff.
Well my old psychology tutor was saying about, aside from CGI, I could do stuff like illustration, and graphic novels and such. Suddenly, now it’s been suggested by someone other than myself, it actually seems like a good idea - if I start doing graphic novels now, I’ll be able to do (good) graphic novels at some point in the future, as a side thing to animation.
Because, lets be honest, if I’m animating all day at the job I get, the last thing I’ll want to do is animate some more when I get home.
Anyway, everyone at my 6th form (even the secretary, she’s like, the centre of our college. There isn’t anyone that doesn’t know or get along with her.) was like “You were so good at stuff when you were here! We can’t wait to see your animations! Call us when you get your millions!” and so on. Obviously it’s all encouragement, but it was… encouraging! And it’s so cool, because I was feeling like everything I did at uni was crap and everyone thought I was rubbish at everything. I feel happy.
Until the train rant of course, but I’m going to ignore that in pursuit of happiness, as far from the truth as it might (currently) be. Because that makes me want to keep trying, instead of feeling like I cant do anything right, digging myself a pit and dropping out of uni.
I didn’t see my film studies tutor though, and he was awesome. He’s better than most of the lecturers that we’ve had in the past two years. And his hair used to go fluffy when he got mad at us not doing our coursework =P
(How many times can I fit ‘awesome’ into my post? And awesome number, that’s what.)
Edit: I’ve no idea where I’d put it if I made it though.
And damnit I forgot my main problem I was going to post about. I’m writing the script/screenplay and it’s far, far too wordy. Not the lines themselves, but the amount of character interaction in one scene.
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