Acosta, I'm not looking for that, but if you're good at it and can find some way to do it, I'm all for ya brother!
Eskimo, all of the writers should get together and create just one friggin' huge story. Maybe not cram it into one file but rather do one huge movie into several installments. If you e-mail me at the address below, I've got an idea that seems to be perfect. I can write a good story, we just need to spread the word about it. The idea about making a flash criticizing our reviews can come after we actually make a flash film. Hopefully, none of us shall ever have to worry about getting bad reviews.
At 6/7/04 01:40 PM, Snerd wrote: The idea about making a flash criticizing our reviews can come after we actually make a flash film. Hopefully, none of us shall ever have to worry about getting bad reviews.
Thats not what I meant, I meant as in the style he did it in. He just used his voice and not too many animations. But I do agree with you, we need to make one gaint kick ass story!
Hey there. Im sort of a writer i do a lot of scripts and stories. Unfortunately some of them are a bit too long to put into flash though.
Ok if those scripts are too big you could also make the flash a progressive series. Divide it into several parts. This is why you have been tapped to write a big story with Eskimo and myself. Anyone else in writers crew that wants to join or any passers by are welcome but this isn't really concrete yet, we need to divise a centralized plot or just do something such as The Matrix has you. That was a great flash but it was a collabrative work. This laid the foundation for my idea. We would just need one flash artist and I know one guy that could help us: Dominic Nunziato, founder of spoil-sports.com . He makes some good flash and I should have considered him from the start. He would probably be glad to help us. All he'd basically ask I think is just to link spoil-sports to the flash, no big deal. I'll drop him an
e-mail. You guys send some ideas for the story to my e-mail. No past works unless you want to give up the rights and have the story picked apart. We need an original idea. This is great to see my vision for Writers Crew come to life. This is what I had invisioned since post one. *tears up* *sobs* LOL
There there big guy be strong we can do this...... Anyway....
What kind of theme are you thinking? Is it going to be funny, action, drama sci fi?
As long as its original its all good.
Well, I think Dominic does great flash. He knows what he is doing. I e-mailed hi, but so far I've gotten no response. As far as a story, anything can work, I'm good with humor and comedic timing, but I can do anything. I specifically won't do musicals! Just send my an e-mail about any ideas you may have. This way it only involves a limited amount of people and not everyone that searches the BBS.
Everyone that has a sig include a link to the Writers Crew. That is if no one has a link. If you already have one but would like to change it feel free to do so.
I want the Writers Crew to join up under one production name:
Behind the 8ball Productions
The logo is the production name with an 8ball under it (the black ball in pool)
So when you make a flash with members of the Writers Crew you are unofficially joining the team. We'll print up T-shirts or something. If you make a flash in our name send us a proper mailing address and a shirt size and we'll get one out to you. S, M, L, and XL.
i cant figure out how to use the html, i looked in the help page but it didnt help
I'm not very good with computers so don't ask me. I could barely get my sig up here.
I have come up with a genre to put our story in: western. I've also come up with a title: "Hang 'em High." It's a story about a traveling gunslinger, looking for the person that killed his father. This will be a serious flash and may be turned into a series if we get a big story. This will be rated "M" for violence and mild language. Mainly the language will be PG-13 and the violence in between PG-13 and R. I want to appeal to audiences without being criticized for being graphic or dirty. You guys drop me an
e-mail with your ideas. We'll build it to our liking, if seriousness doesn't work we'll just turn it into Blazing Saddles 2. Ok?
Alright, we got to think what people like, or what is big in the flash portal.
The top five flashes are:
1. Madness (Action)
2. Penicalmation (Unique Style)
3. Final Fantasy A+ (Humor)
4. Bob the Ball (Humor)
5. FF7: Random Battles (Humor)
So what I was thinking that we should do something like the Western like Snerd said, but maybe use a unique style of animation to do that, and make it very violent! Maybe add a drunk character or something on that lines to make it funny.
Thats what I was thinking.
ok like eskimo joe said, there needs to be variety, but with the storyline, the dude who wants to find some1 who killed his father, it kinda sounds like the video game red dead revolver, dunno if u've ever played it, but the storyline for it goes kinda like that, maybe he could go after some1 that killed all his friends or somethin like that, we can decide on that sometime soon, or if u wanna just keep ur normal idea, as long as it turns out good
I like the idea of a gunslinger but i dont think we should make it too deep, just give it a lighter story line i think giving it the same guns and violence style of madness would work well particularly if we carefully script the sequence like that author has done.
.............really need to make sig one day.............. cba XD
Great now we're gettin' somewhere! Ok kids I read all of your suggestions and I've gotten an idea. We do make it violent, we add an old prospector for humor (but no one make him annoying), we make the main character an alcoholic (to add a little drama), we add a dance hall girl as his love interest (he doesn't return her love because he's on a mission), for a not so original twist he's been appointed sheriff for as long as his stay is in the town of Blood Gulch (Halo reference that makes for a good western name). Ok!
As for sounding like Red Dead Revolver, I haven't played but I saw the commercial and thought of doing a western. It was merely inspiration at most and nothing from the storyline should be taken, although I haven't played it...yet.
so snerd, we friends or do i need to kick your butt again, anyway im doing my own flash, but i wouldnt mind doing some artwork,except its too "blurry"!
oh well, i can do that html thingy,takes ages though!
heres some of wat im writing now can i join
No Title
Chapter 1
“Khallos” whispered Jax in the dead of night.
“What” replied Khallos?
“Did you here something”
“No like what?”
“I’m not sure, something like a wolf’s howl”
“Well then no I didn’t so just go…………”Mid speech Khallos stopped and turned his head to the end of the tent. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw a dog-like shadow creep over the canvas tent. “Wha…wha…..what’s that” stuttered Jax mouth and eyes wide open. “Dunno” said Khallos “but I bet it’s not friendly” he finished.
General Kovlaz a quite tall man wearing a soldiers uniform looked into the blackness of the screen which previously had his wife’s face looking out of, smiling happily as she said goodbye and blew a kiss. The general’s wife was 2 years younger than him, 35, and at least in his eyes beautiful. He had been away commanding the species Intel unit for 8 months now and the video phone was his only contact with his wife. Luckily he was a general and that meant as long as he wasn’t doing anything considering his work he could talk with to her but now he was ready for his 5 and a half hour slumber. But as he slowly drifted into sleep he heard noises, ripping and scratching crunching and banging noises. He thought this was simply the start of a dream or nightmare but when the first gunshot was fired he sat bolt up right and came back to reality he opened his bed-side table drawer and picked up a modified <gun name here> and ran out of his room and down a flight of stairs. From there he burst through a wooden door breaking one of the hinges and into the courtyard of the quite large army base as his eyes darted around he saw all the familiar buildings, the infirmary, the recreation block, the labs and the rest. But as his eyes settled on the courtyards centre he new where the sounds had come from the soldiers temporary barracks, small tents, the base had not yet been completed and the barracks hadn’t been built yet. They were shredded and blood drenched bodies of the general’s men lay lifeless on the cold stone of the courtyard. He wasn’t afraid of what did it because they were no longer there and then a horrible thought came to his head his 2 sons Jax and Khallos, were they dead alive he didn’t know but he wanted to find out. And then he heard whispers near the infirmary and he crept over……
As General Kovlaz gently opened the infirmary door he looked inside and it what he saw wasn’t kind on his eyes in more ways than one! He opened the door fully and the five men that were inside looked towards the door and raised there rifles in shock “stop, it’s me” said the general. They lowered the their guns and turned towards the bed that Jax was lying in, the general stepped towards his son Jax was ripped open at the chest blood was gushing out when he breathed he had no bandages on because of the long thin bright green needles sticking out of his wounds. Luke, The General, new what had done this the species his unit was researching they had not been given a name yet and so were known as species D-7.Luke turned away from the bed and wiped his eyes not because he was crying but because of the poisonous chemicals in the species D-7’s needles which was seeping into his eyes making them water. He closed his eyes and thought about what his wife would say when she found out her youngest son was dead!
ive done more posted it in general in the thread called a story
Don't post your book or whatever on here. We don't care about your latest sci-fi thriller. We are posting for a flash film, so not only are you off subject but you are spamming as well.
Snare, you can work with us if you want to. Your images you posted on the BBS were to blurred for me to see. You shouldn't take photos and then post them, you should get a scanner.
Now for Phase 2 of the writing system:
We need character names, profiles and basic sketches (they don't have to be exact, just give us an idea of what you think they'd look like).
At 6/10/04 02:53 PM, Snerd wrote: Don't post your book or whatever on here. We don't care about your latest sci-fi thriller. We are posting for a flash film, so not only are you off subject but you are spamming as well.
Snare, you can work with us if you want to. Your images you posted on the BBS were to blurred for me to see. You shouldn't take photos and then post them, you should get a scanner.
Now for Phase 2 of the writing system:
We need character names, profiles and basic sketches (they don't have to be exact, just give us an idea of what you think they'd look like).
i have a scanner,its just a bit broken down,er, anyway, ill use my camera at a better angle and stuff,i used at a wierd angle ,
so,well,yeah,profiles and sketches
agent doom
evil
stealth
strong
silent
assasin
yeah, i couldnt think of anything better,i got some monsters,what about those?
No, I meant for the flash film we are doing. We are doing a western. See some of the above posts. That ought to fill you in on what you have missed.
I've come up with the lead character's profile.
Main Character-
Sam Hutchinson: occupation: gunslinger/ sheriff
family: mother/ died in labor delivering him. father/ gunned down by Cyrus Culhane.
home: no where in particular, searches for Cyrus Culhane. Currently residing in Blood Gulch acting as temporary sheriff.
So what did you think? we can play around with this as time goes on. Usually, I'm a fast-paced writer. I try to make a story in a day's time, but I'm working with other people and I want this to be done well because my reputation doesn't mean shit to me, I don't want to bring others to look bad because of me. If we can stick this together we should get around 2.95-3.40 on the Pico rating scale. We should end up on the front page.
At 6/10/04 03:20 PM, Snerd wrote: No, I meant for the flash film we are doing. We are doing a western. See some of the above posts. That ought to fill you in on what you have missed.
I've come up with the lead character's profile.
Main Character-
Sam Hutchinson: occupation: gunslinger/ sheriff
family: mother/ died in labor delivering him. father/ gunned down by Cyrus Culhane.
home: no where in particular, searches for Cyrus Culhane. Currently residing in Blood Gulch acting as temporary sheriff.
So what did you think? we can play around with this as time goes on.
cool ideas my friend, so tell me what to draw,ill try, if you dont like ill try again or go and cry inside my cardboard box of a home!!!
Inspration just hit me!
The guy could have a dirty past that he is trying to cover up! Thats why he moved to Blood Gluch, were he was appointed shierff!
I think I good problem that he had in the past could be something to do with an anger management problem, like he killed someone for pissing him off. The story could be this pissed off shierff getting justice the "American" way! NOW THATS A WESTERN!
It's good but I don't know. Maybe he could be trying to cover up for killing his wife's murderer and that is why he: doesn't show love toward the dance hall woman (because he can't bare to get over his wife), is an alcoholic (because he tries to drown his sorrow), and won't speak to many people (for fear that they would find out about his killing). Of course that is just the Punisher in a cowboy hat. So I'm not too sure if that would work but it justifies a whole lot. Tell me what you think.
At 6/10/04 08:06 PM, Snerd wrote: It's good but I don't know. Maybe he could be trying to cover up for killing his wife's murderer and that is why he: doesn't show love toward the dance hall woman (because he can't bare to get over his wife), is an alcoholic (because he tries to drown his sorrow), and won't speak to many people (for fear that they would find out about his killing). Of course that is just the Punisher in a cowboy hat. So I'm not too sure if that would work but it justifies a whole lot. Tell me what you think.
Hell, I dont want to sound like a show off but that was kind of exactly what I was thinking! Maybe not his wife's murderer, why would he be sorry about that? I wouldn't! Maybe someone else, like maybe he shot a bystander on accident, or maybe he did it on purpose.
Alright, before we go any further, I need to know two things:
1. How many people are going to be in this project? We dont want too many or too few.
2. I like the idea of a western, but I dont think there is much we could do with it other then the showdowns and duels. Is everyone sorry this is what they want to do?
PS I have a cool idea for an opening scence!!!! We should start really dramtic, like two guys talking in a bar, the last thing one of the guys says is "Some things you just wanna forget" or something like that!
At 6/10/04 08:06 PM, Snerd wrote: It's good but I don't know. Maybe he could be trying to cover up for killing his wife's murderer and that is why he: doesn't show love toward the dance hall woman (because he can't bare to get over his wife), is an alcoholic (because he tries to drown his sorrow), and won't speak to many people (for fear that they would find out about his killing). Of course that is just the Punisher in a cowboy hat. So I'm not too sure if that would work but it justifies a whole lot. Tell me what you think.
Hell, I dont want to sound like a show off but that was kind of exactly what I was thinking! Maybe not his wife's murderer, why would he be sorry about that? I wouldn't! Maybe someone else, like maybe he shot a bystander on accident, or maybe he did it on purpose.
Alright, before we go any further, I need to know two things:
1. How many people are going to be in this project? We dont want too many or too few.
2. I like the idea of a western, but I dont think there is much we could do with it other then the showdowns and duels. Is everyone sure this is what they want to do?
PS I have a cool idea for an opening scence!!!! We should start really dramtic, like two guys talking in a bar, the last thing one of the guys says is "Some things you just wanna forget" or something like that!
ok there r some really good ideas here! but i think the thing he is tryin to hide from his past should be like he used to be crazy, some people were afraid of him and a lot of people just thought he was a psychopath, cuz after his wife died he became a big alchoholic to drown away the sorrow (like u said b4) and he gets so drunk he ends up getting into bar brawls, and in 1 particular bar brawl he is so drunk that he ends up severely injuring some guy, then that guy ends of dying and the main character doesnt realize what he's done until he's no longer drunk and he heard about him and everything that happened at the bar, so then that's when he decides he's goin to flee to another place, which ends up bein the blood gulch, and that place is doin real bad and have a terible sherrif, later on one night, some1 actually shoots the sherrif and ends up getting killed in the process, so then the main character dude gets elected for sherriff and tries to straighten things out
Ok. Eskimo Joe basically said what I originally came here to say. He and I will be head writers since we both have basically the same vision. I revised my idea for an opening scene, however.
Opening Scene:
We open to 2 men standing in the middle of a street. Both men are poised to get their guns. The clock tower strikes twelve noon. Sam reaches for his gun, draws and fires. He misses. He fires again and his would be oppenent is hit. The other man dies.
Sam: This is what you get when you challenge the best!
He looks around. He finds a young boy clenching his chest. The young man has been shot. Sam rushes over to the little boy.
Sam: Billy? Billy, are you shot, son?
Billy: Yes, sir. (Billy dies in Sam's arms)
Sam: NOOOO!
We then show that 5 years have passed. Sam sits at a bar counter, attempting to drown his sorrows.
Stranger: Hey, mister, is this seat taken.
Sam: yes
Stranger: Well I don't see anyone.
Sam: (looks at him piercingly) My mistake.
Stranger: You look like you have something to forget.
Sam: Some things are best left forgotten.
[end scene]
Well, Eskimo Joe, what did you think? Other opinions are also welcomed. Joe is just one of the head writers. Dont' worry, as time goes on a, maybe one more will become a head writer. They just need to contribute a lot more to the story... or have an easier name for me to remember.
My 100th post! A milestone event.
I think we should include some western style music. I don't know what the Flash kit offers but I'm sure it's not what I'm looking for. I was thinking of maybe putting in the theme from "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly." I also want all of the writers to watch as many western movies as you possibly can for reference. I suggest something with John Wayne or Clint Eastwood because that is the type of persona I want Sam to have.
Now for comedic relief I suggested an old prospector. We will make him Sam's only real friend. Here's his profile:
Gabby Quinton: prospector
family: orphaned
no siblings
no wife
location: Blood Gulch, resides in a little shack on the outskirts of the town. He has a gold claim in the adjacent mountain not 2 miles down the road.
brief bio: Orphaned as a child, Gabby Quinton escaped the orphanage at the age of 11. He was taken in by a hermit that lost his gold claim. He taught Gabby how to shoot a gun, and do so quickly. After being proclaimed , "Fastest gun in the world," Gabby found that prospecting was the better and much safer route to take in life's journey. He met Sam in a bar. Sam immediately took to Gabby and made him a father figure in his life. Gabby understood what Sam was going through at the time and comforted him with this thought, "Son, what done is done. You can't change what ya did. Why don't you crawl outta that bottle and come with me?" To which Sam replied, "(burp!)." The two became fast friends.
So what do you think? I just have to have a few more people (2 more) and that's it for the profiles. We can elaborate on the story after we have the characters.
Snare, could you do a drawing?
Here's the description:
Black, slicked back hair
Brown eyes
five o' clock shadow
Brown cowboy hat
Mexican poncho
two six shooters in their holsters
holster, bullets in the belt, then a belt buckle, then more bullets, then the sceond holster.
I want to see how you would draw the main character. Try your best. I just wanna see your art style.
At 6/11/04 08:33 AM, Snerd wrote: Ok. Eskimo Joe basically said what I originally came here to say. He and I will be head writers since we both have basically the same vision. I revised my idea for an opening scene, however.
What was your first idea?
Well, Eskimo Joe, what did you think? Other opinions are also welcomed. Joe is just one of the head writers. Dont' worry, as time goes on a, maybe one more will become a head writer. They just need to contribute a lot more to the story... or have an easier name for me to remember.
Thats perfect! Now, we need to think what the first epsisode is going to be about. The first should just be an ice braker, nothing too heavy as in storyline. Maybe just the old fashioned bad guys steal stuff and shierff kicks some ass, meets a few of the up coming major characters but nothing too big happens.
