Bad Bootje and Botox Bo presents: BSA 3

Part VII is a focus on adaptation and how that can be a form of Second-Hand Personal Inflection, this is the second example of Second-Hand Exploration that I will be doing. In this blog, we look at the concept, story structure, inspiration from external sources and final outline. I think that adaptation is a form of the second-hand exploration which I am looking into with my Research this year. I had an idea a couple of years ago for a Scooby-Doo style animated show which would work as a subversive adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's' work. I have chosen to do 2D animation as my elective this year and will then produce this idea, hopefully finishing the initial designs, script, storyboards, and pitch bible for this Lovecraft project well before I start that paper in the second semester. Concept The work's title is Lil' Cthulu and Friends, a tv parody series of the old Hanna-Barbera mystery crew shows (like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? ,  The Funky Phantom and  Goober an...

This blog analyses the first of many personal explorations into how the life experiences of an individual can be personified and translated into entertaining horror fiction. It looks at how the story came to be, where the inspiration was drawn from, outlines the film's plot and breaks down how the personal experience of my client was infused into the story's DNA through the theme, inciting incident and setting. Origins Recently my girlfriend expressed an interest in making a short film sometime during the year, when she brought it up to me I suggested I could write something for her and she outlined some very tough limitations to follow. She wanted the film to be focused on just one or two people, preferably something simple to film (with no need for extravagant locations, costumes, props or anything of that sort). These are very tough limitations to place on a writer because it is keeping the filming in mind first, the restrictions prevent certain story potential fro...