Thanks so much for the kind words. You know, I feel that we’re at a stage right now, with the INSANE tools that Epic (and notable others) have been providing storytellers, that we almost can’t keep up. Many of us are buried in ‘testing’ to learn them, with only a few, comparatively, applying the knowledge of the tools to an end product that people are drawn to watch. Consumers of media (I’m certainly one of them), folks on the couch watching Netfilx, etc. aren’t concerned with the ‘film stock’ or the way effects were achieved, but rather MUST be pulled along by the story, the interaction of characters you care about and so on. The story for EP1 (which was actually written 2nd to EP2 (coming soon)) came to me in a dream as a story, not as a ‘test’ to apply to new tools. I jumped out of bed, wrote it in one sitting, and then, because I’ve been training myself in all these tools, decided to make it using them. This is all to say, STORY FIRST, technique second.
I appreciate the above timeline is a bit confusing. EP2 came to me first, I wrote it, and then a few days later I wrote EP1, and swapped the order when I realized it made sense chronologically to introduce Tom/Tim before our next character Jeremy chats with. Plus it gave me a reason to revisit Tom/Tim in the following EP. I’ve now written 4 of the episodes and a childhood-friend turned writing partner wrote a few more. The only reason I haven’t blasted through production is, despite the tools being free, there are still expenses and I can’t monetize these productions. Perhaps Epic will see fit to bless me with a Megagrant! 