Playing around with a couple of applications, it's occurred to me recently how I might do some justice to a Darwin's Laureate reboot.
Not that it'll be a "reboot" in a traditional sense, I'm thinking more of a DVD/torrent. A labor of love, which if I had the money I'd hire some decent voice acting.
In all truth, I dislike the idea of a mainline story compilation as it once had been. Even the psuedo-sequel / "direct approach" left the audience wondering what was going on.
Because of the nature of the project--an organically grown mess, in best of terms, it can be a hard concept to grasp.
And really, the reason is because it was never supposed to be so "finite." So...collected, easily spotted, understood to be a function of fiction. The HubPages run was a test, and in all truth--if I had nothing else to do in life, I'd be running around trying to secure different elements to make the whole vision happen.
Those are my true feelings.
I want to create something so massive, between an alternate reality game and classical story line, that it is literally beyond my means at this point. Money, I don't believe is the biggest factor, either.
Strategy and solid story is the biggest hurdle. But when you're trying to feed your audience through so many angles--twitter updates, random youtube uploads, blog articles, facebook accounts....when all of this is going on, how do you exactly formulate a long-range story line crafted around several types of media? That's the biggest hurdle.
But....the DVD thing, might be a fun little exercise. Because of it's nature, however, it can never become a viable commercial product---too much licensing issues.
We'll see.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
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