Saturday, December 13, 2008

updates

my whole body's aching cos of the exercise but it's not too bad. it's more motivating to have someone exercise with me. i'm looking forward to thursday again! 

i haven't got a chance to wear my fake eyelashes. I'm either too lazy or there's no occasion for the trouble. need to try it soon! 

and i've been wondering if ants ever get drowsy when they come and eat my cough syrup. 

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Lately i've been thinking and imagining a lot, building and developing a storyline that's in my head. i think i've matured a little in terms of purpose of writing scripts.

Perhaps i've been heavily influenced by the kind of dramas i watch; my storylines so far have similarities with those in the taiwan/ korean/ japanese dramas. and if you realize, most of those dramas tend towards unrealistic plots. 

Which i kind of dislike to see in my own creations, to be honest. 

I may like watching brainless romance and comedic asian dramas, but when it comes to my own ideas, i really hope that they can connect in a more relevant way to people. 

To be relevant means to reflect accurately the way of life of society. So in this current storyline that's mostly still stuck in my head (haven't concretized yet), it will be the society i'm most familiar with, and that is Singapore. 

And what's a story without a balanced dose of conflicts and social ills? I hope my work will not simply reflect like a mirror, but i want my target audience to be able to catch something and do something about it, just like Jack Neo's movies.

Hence, i've thought of this storyline that i was quite impressed with initially and expanded on it, throwing in some of Singapore's social issues. So i hope i'm not going to look at it 1 week down the road and think that it's trash! that's what happened to my past projects. hahaha. most of them, i'd say, cannot stand thru the test of time. 

I've got so much i want to talk about the storyline in my head, but i really should develop it further before sharing. i spent the afternoon writing the beginning chapter. i hope to finish the beginning chapter by tonight. i developed a rough character description for the main characters and important side characters too yesterday afternoon. it will help me tremendously in developing the plot at a later stage.

Most important lesson learnt would be that the script writer must be able to understand and know each and every characters' feelings and thoughts, in order to write a good script that is relatable to others.

I'm doing this with zero external knowledge gained in script writing. it's just something i like to do. you can say it's silly and a waste of time, but for someone who is born more of an idealist who happens to have a creative streak, i'd say it is worth it to see what this thing can become. after all, Art and Creativity are not meant to be irrelevant unlike what some ppl may think. otherwise i could have simply carried on and have completed 10+ storylines but they would all be illogical, unrealistic, irrelevant and a put off to everyone except myself. and that's meaningless ain't it.

yup. so you know what i do during my free time, other than music and drama-ing. Haha!

6:28 PM

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