The Bridges of Hobo Village
Scenario. This episode will be an introduction to the bridge and the stories that float from it. It will be my first effort at conveying the mystery of the bridge. It probably will not be my last. The bridge is the star in this episode. I will do the first part with special effects and voice over. The general notion is that this is a painting. On the wall of a museum? No. This is a painting you can enter. You can walk around in this painting. You can meet other people. You can feel its past. This is a bridge to another world, a world of imagination.
That leads to why I used the plural. There are many bridges here. As many bridges as there are people to imagine them. As many bridges as there are happenings that someone can imagine.
Here is where the vid needs the SL players.
Shooting script. Players will appear on the bridge (TP in I hope.) Each player will suggest some happening by appearance, walking around, animations, or attachments. The suggestions will not be specific. Different viewers might see different suggestions (different bridges).
Each player will stay a short time, then vanish (TP out). Voice over will note some appearances and speculate about the meaning.
At first, there will be only one avatar, and intervals between. Then they will appear more frequently. Think summer shower. A few well separated drops, then increasing to crescendo. Crescendo at about 4 minutes of shooting. At crescendo, whole cast is on stage (on bridge). At 4 minutes, everybody stand still. I will do a dissolve to the same bridge empty, making everyone vanish.
We will do some last minute arrangements to sequence entries and exits. And to match people with time. We do not have to get it all in one take.
Suitable avitars should not break viewer expectations of what might appear on the bridge. Best choice: ordinary people who look as if they could have been on the bridge between 1850 and 1950. I would especially like to have someone in a business suit and someone who looks like Huck Finn. I have a script for them in a later episode. Please avoid animals and wings. Those would break mood. Ladies in Victorian dresses would be great. Also great, a lady with a bloody knife, and the lady on horseback, sidesaddle.
That leads to why I used the plural. There are many bridges here. As many bridges as there are people to imagine them. As many bridges as there are happenings that someone can imagine.
Here is where the vid needs the SL players.
Shooting script. Players will appear on the bridge (TP in I hope.) Each player will suggest some happening by appearance, walking around, animations, or attachments. The suggestions will not be specific. Different viewers might see different suggestions (different bridges).
Each player will stay a short time, then vanish (TP out). Voice over will note some appearances and speculate about the meaning.
At first, there will be only one avatar, and intervals between. Then they will appear more frequently. Think summer shower. A few well separated drops, then increasing to crescendo. Crescendo at about 4 minutes of shooting. At crescendo, whole cast is on stage (on bridge). At 4 minutes, everybody stand still. I will do a dissolve to the same bridge empty, making everyone vanish.
We will do some last minute arrangements to sequence entries and exits. And to match people with time. We do not have to get it all in one take.
Suitable avitars should not break viewer expectations of what might appear on the bridge. Best choice: ordinary people who look as if they could have been on the bridge between 1850 and 1950. I would especially like to have someone in a business suit and someone who looks like Huck Finn. I have a script for them in a later episode. Please avoid animals and wings. Those would break mood. Ladies in Victorian dresses would be great. Also great, a lady with a bloody knife, and the lady on horseback, sidesaddle.
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