Title Announcement

This is just a brief announcement to say that the first episode of Launch of the Leviathan will be called.

DISCOVERY

and that I've started the script for that episode.

Script Update

Since Earth is over several formats with a large interconnected story there's going to be a lot of scripts to write. It's like when J. Michael Strazinski wrote Seasons 3, 4 and 5 of Babylon 5. So I'll cover what's been happening.

Darwin's Journey

Episode 1: Rise of the Rebellion - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 2: Hope for the Future - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 3: TBA - First Draft (5% Complete)
Episode 4: TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 5: TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 6: TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)

Jacob's Story
Episode 1: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 2: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 3: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 4: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 5: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 6: TBA (0% Complete)

Launch of the Leviathan
Episode 1: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 2: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 3: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 4: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 5: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 6: TBA (0% Complete)

So there we go. Two scripts complete with another Sixteen to go.

A Script Sample

And now for a few lines from DARWIN'S JOURNEY!!!

This is from Episode 1: Rise of the Rebellion. It's at the end of Scene 5.

Narrator (Darwin)
Also, there was something else that was happening at the time. Something that I didn't find out until the end. I was being monitored by the Overseers. For what Reasons, I'll keep them to myself.

Rewrites

The Rewriting Process happens all the time. Everything is rewritten and it won't be released until it's to a very high standard. So With Earth I've done the same thing.

In the very beginning with that single script for Hilltown FM. The script was very different. It was still on Earth. Most of the key factors of the story were literally non existant such as the year the series takes place. There was no mention of a date in the story so there was no need to fix that one down. Yet when I rewrote the story I felt that having an exact date would be the best thing all around. So I focused on May 29th 2107. Purely because the finished radio drama was to be broadcast during May.

Another thing which came about due to rewrites was The Overseer Empire. The Villians of the series. In the very first script it was going to be a group of voices. Nine people would have been required to provide individual lines of dialogue. With the realisation that you couldn't get Nine People together or at times that best suited them it was chopped down to Three and gave the story a better twist.

Localisation is another factor. Where is the story set? Again it's on Earth but where on Earth? It could be anywhere but with request from some people at the radio station to set the story in Dundee for the simple fact that the radio station was based in Dundee. Yet with more and more rewrites I've expanded it to cover a large part of Europe. Which means I could have a scene in Paris and then shoot all the way up to Scotland for an important plotpoint and in the expanded story there's bits in New York which leads to the middle of the North Atlantic.

Logo Design

There are many familiar logos in the world of entertainment. There are many you can see by turning on the TV. For Example there's the Eastenders Logo. It has survived several redesigns of the title sequence.

The Original Titles with the Original Logo

The 2009 Title Sequence with the same Logo as the Original

Another example is Doctor Who. With each change of the main actor the series title sequence was also changed.

1963-1964
William Hartnell's Era and the First Season of Patrick Troughton's.


1973-1979
The Last Year of Jon Pertwee's Era and the majority of Tom Baker's Era
It also featured the iconic Diamond Logo.


2005-2010
Christopher Eccelstone's Era and with minor modifications, David Tenant's Era

So when I came up with the Logo for Earth I didn't really think about the context it would appear in. I came up with the logo by looking through the list of fonts that my current computer at the time originally had and I picked the best one that I thought was the best.

At the time I created it I had no idea about how it would look with a little artistic flare. Insomnia is a good time to be creative. Not only do you come up with a good idea it also makes you tired.


This is is the final article. It will appear with the three different formats that I intend to tell the story. Hopefully there will be a title sequence later where the Logo will fit in.

The Writing Process - Part One

In this segment I'll be looking at what inspired me to write.

With Earth, I don't really recall where I got the idea from. It just popped into my head like most other writers such as Douglas Adams and his drunken thoughts in a field in Amsterdam wondering if anyone was going to write about a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and J. K. Rowling and while being stuck on a train got the idea about Harry Potter and not having a pen and some paper to write the whole idea down.

My Idea came from nowhere and I began to write. As it began it started out overblown and far to big for a simple radio station. The cast list was huge and the ideas that I had couldn't be done properly on radio.

So I began to rewrite this single episode and began to expand it. I took an example from J. Michael Strazinski's Babylon 5. Where a long complex story was told over a Five Year bridge. I had wanted to expand Earth from a single episode into a Six-Part-Series.

As I expanded the story I believe I went too far. The Current plan for Earth will be explained later but I will do into detail about what happened when I added a few more seasons to a story that had apparently finished several stories ago.

Next time I'll talk more about the making of the first episode of Earth and possibly some artwork.