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Film Chess Set.

King: Director (obviously)

Queen: Producer/Production manager (because your not get far without one and they have to know about everything)

Bishop: Camera (because they shoot in straight lines but you can do neat tricks with angles to make them show what you want)

Knight: Sound (because sound guys tend to have to get in at weird angles to get what they need and not effect the action)

Rook/Castle: Lights (because light travels in straight lines)

Pawns: Actors (because they get moved about by the director, they're out in front as the most visible part of a film, and sometimes they decide to take on another role like directing/producing etc.)

I may have thought too hard on this.

I even figured the pawns/actors could be different genres, like action, romance, drama, sci-fi, fantasy etc.

It's a pity I have no idea how to actually make a chess set like this.

Nether do I have the talent to do a series of drawings.

oh, well.

I was in bed this morning and I started thinking of a song idea with maybe a music video.

It starts out with some guy singing some kind to soppy balled about his daughter. Generic lyrics about how much he loves his sweet baby girl. Then there’s a rap or R&B verse form another guy only he hasn’t read the brief properly and he stats going on about how ‘she’s so fine, I’m glad your mine’ or something and the first guy is disgusted and as the second guy starts getting explicit. He interrupts and they start to fight with the second guy complaining about why anyone would want to have a rap verse in a song about their daughter and his lyrics were pretty suggestive anyway and the first guy lists off rappers that have song to there children (Eminem, Will Smith etc) and not to be sick. And while they’re fighting another guy comes in and interrupts them with a fantastic voice, maybe a tenner or something, and sings about his baby girl only at the end of the verse they realise he’s singing about his car. Then they turn to each other and say “get him” and run after him and beat him up (off screen).

Pretty random, but whatever.

I know there’s a lot of research being done on electric cars and we’ll be better off if we could swap them out with petrol cars. But I want to know if there’s any research being done on electric planes. I don’t mean little dinky ones I mean for commercial travel. The airplane industry must be using a lot of fuel. Surly there must be alternate means. And if we can get big airplane companies to swap out it might be easier then trying to muscle out the petrol companies that currently have the monopoly on things.

I don’t know.

Just a thought.

I wonder how hard it would be to rig up a few webcams to record petrol prices of all the stations and make some sort of website so you could compare prices.

I know it would be too expensive to use glow-in-the dark paint but surely you could put little reflector bits in the pain used for the road markings. Wouldn’t it make things safer.

Also, I'm willing to give the council the benefit of the doubt and say that time factors and bad weather are the reason there are so many unfixed potholes, but could they at least spray luminous paint around the worse ones so people can see them coming and not have to rely on feel and car damage.

And it may be a more unreasonable idea but I want cars to come with some kind of shock collar thing that zaps you if you beep at a car with an L plate on it.

Current Mood: sick

The shot list I’ve just finished is for an idea I had for a short. I really should have done a script first but when there’s no dialogue and nothing much actually happing it’s pretty hard to write out what you have in you head in script format. Since the entire idea comes straight from the location I can only properly explain it with a storyboard anyway.

The idea is: a man is running though a bunch of corridors being chased by another man who you can’t see his face because his hood is up. The guy with the hood catches the other guy and beats him up. He steps back and pulls off his hood revealing that is actually the same guy. He walks away but the other guy gets up only now his hood is up and he chases after that guy.

Pretty simply. So simple, in fact, that I have no excuse not to just go and film it.

I got the idea because to get to a friend of mine‘s apartment you have to go though a bunch of corridors that are like a maze.

I’m going to go take pictures of all the camera angles I want and draw sick figures into them for storyboards because my drawing skills leave a lot to be desired.

Ok, so you know how if you want to keep your nose warm you have to use a scarf of a balaclava or one of those ridiculous looking nose warmer things? And it’s sometimes hard to breath in a scarf or a balaclava?

Well, I’ve thought of a solution.

There are these chemical hand-warmers you can get that work like glow sticks only with heat instead of light. And the great thing about them is they’re reusable. I was thinking that you could get one of those shaped like a small strip and a bunch of plaster type pockets you slip them into and stick onto you nose. Ok, you might look like you have a broken nose but it’s better then some of those ridiculous fuzzy things you see.

And since you get colds and flus from germs that live in your nose when it’s cold you could even say it has medical benefits.

So in my internet meanderings I came across a youtube vid of a collection of magic girl transformations.

It really makes me wish I could animate because I really want to see a magic girl transformation sequence done with a twist. Have her transform into practical clothes.

You know, start off with a girl in something frilly or something, maybe an old style lacy dress and carrying a parasol/sun-umbrella thing and have her dramatically toss it up into the air and the camera spins around as the dress dissolves in sparkles and mystic glowyness raps around her and the close ups revel combat boots, camo pants, a flak jacket and her fancy hair ties itself back into a ponytail or something, maybe a helmet, and she catches her parasol which has turn into an assault rife.

I wish I could see that.

There’s no way I could do it myself though. Pity.

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