The outline for the first story arc is done. It’s more introduction to characters than anything, but it should work okay.
It’s also an interesting excercise in finding five separate beats in a story that keep the story moving and interesting. Most tv shows are a teaser and 3 acts (I think — although more and more seem to be breaking that rule these days). I’m sure the episodes themselves will require many drafts…
One of the reasons I love working with Linda so much is that she’s full of questions. SHE thinks that she can be too anal with them, but honestly, they really help to flesh things out… for instance: We never would have come up with the wicked awesome propulsion system for the ship had it not been for her questions…
So anyway, as part of our building of this universe, she gives me homework questions to answer about anything and everything. One of the questions in the first set inspired this answer, and may have sparked a title for the show:
In the late 20th century, after much campaigning and hard won political battles, puppets around the globe were given the right to form Independent Puppet Nations, much like the Native American Nations in North America. But instead of casinos, they dove into education and technology. In the mid 21nd century, they formed the United Puppet Nations as an advisory counsel made up of representatives from all of the IPNs. It was the UPN that was able to coordinate the Puppet Tech markets from all of the various IPNs to get them working together and focused on a new, singular goal: a puppet home world. And so the UPN is the controlling body of of the small fleet of IPVs that make up the para-military force known as Galaxy Scouts.
So today became our first unofficial production meeting for Puppets in Space (working title).
To be quite frank, it was exciting. One of the first things I did when I thought about how to get this project off the ground was to bring Linda on board, because 1) she doesn’t take my shit and 2) she’s got one of those minds that asks all the right questions to get me just vomiting information and ideas from my brain.
In today’s meeting, we discussed the universe we’re working in, the structure of the episodes, the rudimentary technology, and some rough ideas for story lines. What we really DIDN’T get to were characters. But we’ve got time yet. Alot of time, because we still have to figure out how the hell Blender works. 🙂
But for now, we’ve got the building blocks for a universe… and that’s awesome.
So this will be the place where we start to chronicle the creation of whatever insane projects come to mind (and manage to escape the mind into the wild).
Most of it won’t make sense, or may seem trivial, but it’s a place to compile notes and information and to have a record of how it all goes down.