Last night Finn and I finished the first draft of our screenplay for the pilot episode of a sitcom called Fish and Moose, why not click here for the synopsis.
We went out drinking to celebrate and sent it on to friends for feedback, more news in future no doubt :-)
Showing posts with label Fish and Moose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fish and Moose. Show all posts
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Blogging and "Fish and Moose"
I have this new blog so I guess I should do what blogs are for and blog
I just don't think I'm as pretentious as I was when I got livejournal as a teenager, I always seemed to have something I at least thought was very insightful to write back then.
So I've been a busy little bee
Monday Stuart came over to talk about Close and Faraway the play I am composing music for, and hear what I'd got so far which is a few melodic themes with accompaniment and variations thereupon XP more work soon.
Tuesday night I went out to a creative writing open mic during the West End Festival at Partick Library and heard some people read out poems and bits of prose. I also read out The Pragmatist and recited A Musical Poem which inspired me to post those up here, as well as a couple of other bits and pieces you can check out if it pleases you:
Heart of Matters
The Pioneer
Nympholepsy
Afterwards Finn came over to work on Fish and Moose which is a sitcom-esque play we started writing maybe a year ago (which is now looking more like a screen play.) FIND OUT ABOUT IT BY CLICKING HERE. The interesing thing about this piece of writing is it started out life as an extensive list of jokes that we had coined over the course of several nights out. Us having a few different strands to our senses of humour, characters began emerging through the jokes as you could think "well that line could be said by the same person that said that line" ...and then storyline started to weave itself around the development characters. It has shown out to be a really cool, interesting and original way of writing, consistently funny, with some very unexpected results regarding the depths of some of the characters. Lots of happy coinicdences and subtext that was coined without preconception.
Today I'm off to Jonos to complete editations on the new Illich sketches, so hope I can post the new one up in the next day or two.
I just don't think I'm as pretentious as I was when I got livejournal as a teenager, I always seemed to have something I at least thought was very insightful to write back then.
So I've been a busy little bee
Monday Stuart came over to talk about Close and Faraway the play I am composing music for, and hear what I'd got so far which is a few melodic themes with accompaniment and variations thereupon XP more work soon.
Tuesday night I went out to a creative writing open mic during the West End Festival at Partick Library and heard some people read out poems and bits of prose. I also read out The Pragmatist and recited A Musical Poem which inspired me to post those up here, as well as a couple of other bits and pieces you can check out if it pleases you:
Heart of Matters
The Pioneer
Nympholepsy
Afterwards Finn came over to work on Fish and Moose which is a sitcom-esque play we started writing maybe a year ago (which is now looking more like a screen play.) FIND OUT ABOUT IT BY CLICKING HERE. The interesing thing about this piece of writing is it started out life as an extensive list of jokes that we had coined over the course of several nights out. Us having a few different strands to our senses of humour, characters began emerging through the jokes as you could think "well that line could be said by the same person that said that line" ...and then storyline started to weave itself around the development characters. It has shown out to be a really cool, interesting and original way of writing, consistently funny, with some very unexpected results regarding the depths of some of the characters. Lots of happy coinicdences and subtext that was coined without preconception.
Today I'm off to Jonos to complete editations on the new Illich sketches, so hope I can post the new one up in the next day or two.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Fish and Moose
" Fish and Moose is a witty comedy following the tale of three close friends and Doug as they face their respective daily trials of work (and the avoiding of it), sexism, finding an occupied bed for the night (and leaving it without attracting attention to oneself).
Ray and Jules set about the task of trying to force their friend James to get over a break up as the sitcom gives a naturalist take on familiar situations. The cast is a highly believable bag of characters who share witty repartee, teaching you why be “moose” when you can be “fish” ! "
This is a most-loved project I'm working on with my friend Finn Townsley who stage managed my play Lock and the Emerald Eyes (my second play) and co-wrote+co-directed Patriot (the third.)
For me the interesing thing about this piece of writing is it started out life as an extensive list of jokes that we had coined over the course of several nights out. Us having a few different strands to our senses of humour, characters began emerging through the jokes as you could think "well that line could be said by the same person that said that line" ...and then storyline started to weave itself around the development characters. It has shown out to be a really cool, interesting and original way of writing, consistently funny, with some very unexpected results regarding the depths of some of the characters. Lots of happy coinicdences and subtext that was coined without preconception and becaue most of the jokes are things that were actually said the dialogue is very natural and believeable. I am very much looking forwards to seeing how this goes!
Ray and Jules set about the task of trying to force their friend James to get over a break up as the sitcom gives a naturalist take on familiar situations. The cast is a highly believable bag of characters who share witty repartee, teaching you why be “moose” when you can be “fish” ! "
This is a most-loved project I'm working on with my friend Finn Townsley who stage managed my play Lock and the Emerald Eyes (my second play) and co-wrote+co-directed Patriot (the third.)
For me the interesing thing about this piece of writing is it started out life as an extensive list of jokes that we had coined over the course of several nights out. Us having a few different strands to our senses of humour, characters began emerging through the jokes as you could think "well that line could be said by the same person that said that line" ...and then storyline started to weave itself around the development characters. It has shown out to be a really cool, interesting and original way of writing, consistently funny, with some very unexpected results regarding the depths of some of the characters. Lots of happy coinicdences and subtext that was coined without preconception and becaue most of the jokes are things that were actually said the dialogue is very natural and believeable. I am very much looking forwards to seeing how this goes!
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