Hello everyone,
I'm writing out my science fiction opus (or so I call it), and I still hope, one day, to pitch it to investors so as to make it a streaming TV series or movie. Anyway, to me, the focus is the story, not the special effects or the visuals. I know many films are star vehicles, which centre around the movie star, and others focus on the awesome imagery of majestic visuals. My science fiction, however, would focus on the story and, in particular, the concept.
A good example would be Star Trek - I'm a die-hard Trekkie. One episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation involves Captain Picard trapped on a planet with the captain of another alien vessel. No one in the Federation can understand the alien's language, until Picard realizes that they talk in allegory, not conventional speech. In other words, that story focuses on the thought experiment of a species with a language built on metaphor and examples.
I can still remember when we first watched it - I was in college, at the TV room, with another person, and he said that's what he likes, not mindless action but the concept, the thought experiment.
The episode is "Darmok", in the fifth season of Next Gen. In my opinion, this story can be acted out without props, in a rehearsal. So, to me, the stories that I want to tell must be stories that can be done without big-name stars, without expensive special effects, and in a theatre involving actors who just act out the scenes. In other words, strip the story to its bare bones and see if it works.
I'd appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks.
I'm writing out my science fiction opus (or so I call it), and I still hope, one day, to pitch it to investors so as to make it a streaming TV series or movie. Anyway, to me, the focus is the story, not the special effects or the visuals. I know many films are star vehicles, which centre around the movie star, and others focus on the awesome imagery of majestic visuals. My science fiction, however, would focus on the story and, in particular, the concept.
A good example would be Star Trek - I'm a die-hard Trekkie. One episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation involves Captain Picard trapped on a planet with the captain of another alien vessel. No one in the Federation can understand the alien's language, until Picard realizes that they talk in allegory, not conventional speech. In other words, that story focuses on the thought experiment of a species with a language built on metaphor and examples.
I can still remember when we first watched it - I was in college, at the TV room, with another person, and he said that's what he likes, not mindless action but the concept, the thought experiment.
The episode is "Darmok", in the fifth season of Next Gen. In my opinion, this story can be acted out without props, in a rehearsal. So, to me, the stories that I want to tell must be stories that can be done without big-name stars, without expensive special effects, and in a theatre involving actors who just act out the scenes. In other words, strip the story to its bare bones and see if it works.
I'd appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks.
. I personally published books online about my stories. Wanting to pitch stuff like you, however I had no connections and so I only got a few hundred from it. No one really knew I was doing books (my marketing was trash) I could have kept trying with the books but I ended up transitioning to film. Deciding i’d start making the stories myself.