Today I ran across a photo I took back in 2002, the manhole pictured above. I'm not sure why I took it, but I love the texture, and I immediately imagined it as a still frame of our never-to-be-completed thriller movie. Jeff says that my designs need less yin and more yang (or do I have that backwards?), so this design features a lot of circles and curves, right down to the font choice. The splash of red for the crosshairs is a clue, of course, that this will be a story of suspense and violence in the Hitchcockian or Fincherian vein. Perhaps.
What if you added a faded picture of Jeff under the crosshair?
ReplyDeleteToo much?
Well, he's the maniac in question in the story...although he's also a victim...hmmmmm.
ReplyDelete"Starring Jeff Shyluk" is not much of a selling point. It's more of a run away screaming point, or possibly a let's form an angry mob with fiery torches and pitchforks point. "Written and Directed by Earl J. Woods" would be a lot better as a selling point. You are a professional writer, after all.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember much about Pipe Maniac. I thought that killing Jeff off in the first act of Toilet Chase would prevent him from showing up in any sequel(s).
I do have my copy of the Tolet Chase script. I read it every now and then. It's absolutely amazing how Toilet Chase manages to capture the ethos of the Bleak House Of Blahs while at the same time resisting all of my efforts to improve it in any way.
I am still churning out concepts for the Toilet Chase Board Game. I'm trying to figure out a way of keeping the area control dynamic, the narrative arc, and the character interaction without having to design a million unique cards and pieces.
In the grand tradition of Z-grade production values, the character "Jeff Shyluk" died in Toilet Chase, but actor Jeff Shyluk returns as the protagonist of the sequel. Or at least that was the plan...
ReplyDeleteJeff, I think the Toilet Chase board game calls for a creative summit of some kind.