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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I'm very not the best person to contribute but I tohught I'd throw out my experience...
I've had an Epic Dio-Saga in the "planning" stages for ages, like a year and a half at least. I've got notes written, mainly to get the framework of the story down -- if I don't know the begginning, middle and end of the plotline(s) it's only going to stall or abort things down the line if I don't know where it's going. From the framework of the "what happens" I then have additional notes written of "where it happens" and "who it happens with." The Where mostly means location scouting to me since I don't have the space to build sets.
As far as I've got with it, I then take the relevant figures to where I want to shoot and basically flesh out the story as I go by setting them up at the "key moments" that will show the story progression and taking a ton of photos from different angles to see what gives the best view of the setup (rather than advance-planning the composition of each story panel). Afterwards, I'll pick the shots that tell the story with the best pacing and most interesting visuals, and write the actual script to fit them (like the Marvel Method of comics-scripting).
For the only "published" example of doing this for my Epic Dio-Saga, follow the link in my signature then go to the 3rd page of pics; there's a series of 11 photos that would have been the start of the Saga but I have to redo it due to character problems...
However, the only dio-story I've actually put up here on JoeDios basically came from me so liking the group of Joes I'd set up for a couple of standard pics, I went back out and basically played with them, making up the sequence of events as I went along. Similar things were happening when I was out shooting for the Saga above -- actually having the figures out got my imagination going more and beyond thinking of the basic mission scenario and where I wanted to end up I pretty much went with the characters and scenery to let the story happen, plus came up with more ideas for continued or supplemental storylines. I WISH I'd had a notepad with me because I was thinking of cool lines of dialogue as I went along but by the time I'd sorted through the photos and fiddled around ready to add captions I could only half-remember what I'd been thinking when "playing" with them. See my mini-story, "Skirmish," in the dioramas section/my pics history to see the result. I'd like to follow up on it one day but the area I was shooting in became overgrown REALLY quickly as spring came on. Maybe in a couple of months...!
In future I'll probably take this more "freehand" approach to story progression, but I'll definitely be taking notes as I go so that I basically end up with a scripted story-board to work to when it comes to sorting/editing the photos into actual story panels.
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