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Post by dirges on Sept 18, 2008 0:18:50 GMT -5
So I've kinda been thinking about how Z-Legion is going to be put together. Literally. If we put all our individually made prologues in the same series, where would they fit?
I'm thinking the series would begin with one character's prologue, follow them up until they meet someone else, then flashback and start from someone else's perspective, someone else's prologue.
In this way it should flow quite well, especially if we put the most ambiguous chapters first, so that it'll all come together in the end.
Plus we need to discuss things a lot more instead of hiding our ideas from each other. I mean seriously, what's up with that?
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Post by Sparks on Sept 18, 2008 4:43:17 GMT -5
Sounds like a good idea, and it was what I was thinking myself.
I think that Alyssa should go first, seeing as it seems to be her who's leading this thing.
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Post by Latch on Sept 18, 2008 21:16:19 GMT -5
Sounds like a good idea, and it was what I was thinking myself. I think that Alyssa should go first, seeing as it seems to be her who's leading this thing. *turns bright red* WHELL ISN'T THAT JUST LIKE MY LIFE LEMME DIVE IN HEAD FIRST WEEEE *cracks head open* Actually, I'd love to, but I do think we need to discuss it more. Rodrigo had been planning to do his first page, and working heard on it, I don't want him to be upset. IF HE HAD POSTED MORE, THIS WOULD BE EASIER FOR ALL OF US. Because frankly, before I "lead" or make decisions or confirm something, I like to see what each person in a group has to say about it first. SO LET'S SEE.
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Post by dirges on Sept 23, 2008 16:21:54 GMT -5
I think it's safe to say Will has either completely forgot about this project, or that he's believed we've all forgotten about it and has lost hope/given up.
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Post by Latch on Sept 24, 2008 18:21:38 GMT -5
Do you mean... err... umm... RODRIGO? No! He hasn't! I talked to him recently, he just doesn't have the time. He also forgot the URL for the boards and never posted much anyways.
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Post by dirges on Sept 24, 2008 21:33:21 GMT -5
Do you mean... err... umm... RODRIGO? No! He hasn't! I talked to him recently, he just doesn't have the time. He also forgot the URL for the boards and never posted much anyways. THEN GET HIM TO POST.
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Post by Latch on Sept 25, 2008 16:19:55 GMT -5
He's never on... he's busy! I'm finding it hard to get time here myself!
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Post by dirges on Sept 25, 2008 21:08:48 GMT -5
And you're somehow the most active poster on this forum. How does this work?
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Post by Latch on Sept 26, 2008 15:22:26 GMT -5
Time management skills...
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Post by inyuo on Oct 1, 2008 4:21:52 GMT -5
Or maybe superpowers BUT DONT YOU THINK THIS IS DEFERING FROM THE POINT?
When Latch told me the story/structure of Z-Legion, the same query appeared to me Yet I was given the impression that each individual participant, being an artist, would have their prologue taking place at the same time as everone else.
From that i mean ... erm ... ok analogy time: sorta, unlike just one long string which introduces a new character as it goes along, it was more a bunch of strings, which slowly intertwine to become a rope. ... young grasshopper
so future-reader-person reading z-legion would have a whole bunch of potential starting points, mainly due to each artist having their own ideas of how there characters work. This also means that a reader doesnt get lost with a kamillion other stories to keep track of. Though this would probably make the flow and connectivity of all the characters possibly deteriorate ...
... ah
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Post by Latch on Oct 1, 2008 17:48:58 GMT -5
Or maybe superpowers BUT DONT YOU THINK THIS IS DEFERING FROM THE POINT? When Latch told me the story/structure of Z-Legion, the same query appeared to me Yet I was given the impression that each individual participant, being an artist, would have their prologue taking place at the same time as everone else. From that i mean ... erm ... ok analogy time: sorta, unlike just one long string which introduces a new character as it goes along, it was more a bunch of strings, which slowly intertwine to become a rope. ... young grasshopper so future-reader-person reading z-legion would have a whole bunch of potential starting points, mainly due to each artist having their own ideas of how there characters work. This also means that a reader doesnt get lost with a kamillion other stories to keep track of. Though this would probably make the flow and connectivity of all the characters possibly deteriorate ... ... ah Exactly what I was thinking in the first place...
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Post by dirges on Oct 2, 2008 3:49:57 GMT -5
That's kinda what I was going for. Except that a timeline is a bit more - oh god I'm aching so much from work it's actually difficult to type - a bit more two-dimensional.
The solution to this would be to have the prologue focus in a cascading way, that close to the end of one chapter it fades into another character's chapter. However, this would not be easy to pull off (or understand) if each of the character's prologues were happening simultaneously, which is what I believed would be happening. We would then have constant flashbacks, and as we all know, too much of anything is a bad thing.
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Post by inyuo on Oct 3, 2008 11:45:08 GMT -5
Oh right! So the story would act, for lack of a better analogy, something like One Piece or similar, where one team member is introduced and accepted into the team at a time. Of course, some of the chapters would START with the prologue of this new character, as if the story was starting again (in miniture) just for them.
I can see that working, but theres a chance it could get very confusing with the whole 'smaller groups becoming super-group' approach. For example, if two members are introduced (because they paired up earlier) to the party, not only would they need a flashback for what had happened since they met, but also there prologue stories, and that encroaches on "Flashback in a Flashback" territory
Which scares the hell outa me
And for some unknown reason makes me think of Taz the Tazmanian Devil
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Post by Latch on Oct 3, 2008 21:09:20 GMT -5
You think too much.
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Post by dirges on Oct 3, 2008 22:03:00 GMT -5
Oh right! So the story would act, for lack of a better analogy, something like One Piece or similar, where one team member is introduced and accepted into the team at a time. Of course, some of the chapters would START with the prologue of this new character, as if the story was starting again (in miniture) just for them. Nnnno, One Piece has Luffy as the main character. He is always the main character. We're trying to take the focus away from a single main character and put it on six main characters. Each character's prologue will be played as though in the present text, the "This is where I am now" text, and their past will be in a flashback. In this way, the only way we would avoid confusion in the timeline would be to have certain time-defining events. Not big things, but simple, clear things. For example: Say Zyrd's chapter begins with him being lost in some place, and ends with him being discovered in a junkyard by a red-caped elf girl (Latchkey). Latch's chapter begins with her traveling some long expanse and ends with her discovering a metal dragon thing in a junkyard (Zyrd). Each of their events were happening simultaneously, unbeknown to the reader, who's far to focussed on the action to be bothered with the timeline, until that single defining moment when the two chapters end in the same event, then go "Ohhhh!" Tell me if that was at all coherent.
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