ROADTRIP : SIXPACK SCRIPT

 So spent all of yesterday writing a full script for a comic book idea. I have a lot of story ideas lying around, but because I just want to do this for fun. I worked from a new idea, something light and crazy, so there's not much weight on it. I can just focus on "learning" instead of trying to get things right and thinking about a final product.

The IDEA (The spark) : "What if you saw a Sixpack of beer lying in the middle of nowhere in the desert.?"

So that was my starting point, that simple.

- There's a mystery: what is it doing in the middle of the desert? Is it an illusion, a trap to lure them, somebody drop it?

- It gives my characters a goal! And it's silly :D. What does anybody usually look for in the desert? HYDRATION (WATER). But not my characters, they want BEER! 

So I just walked the path of the story in my head to see where it would end out, I thumbnail out some pages, brainstormed different scenarios and turns. Some potentially funny gags. Until I connected the dots from A (set up) -> B (the journey) -> C (resolution). 

I actually often think of how things will end these days, and that helps me then to fill in what happens. In this case I woke up with an image in my head of a tourist bus full of old people that were diving off a cliff.  Completely unconnected to the story, but it somehow gave me the idea for the ending. 

I didn't actually intend to write a script, but I quickly realised I wouldn't be able to thumbnail out my pages, if I didn't have all the beats laid out first. And it's much faster to type some words than redrawing pages of thumbnails. I guess a different approach could've been to use David Lynch's technique, where you write down a scene on a cue card, and another on another card, etc... and then you can rearrange these card into a story.  

But I decided to type out my story! Of course I have no experience writing scripts and especially my dialogue makes me cringe myself. But we all have to start somewhere right, in the name of fun! :D It ended up being an 18 page script, so hopefully it will translate to a 22 ish page comic.  (below just a random segment that doesn't reveal too much :P). 

Although I later noticed I kept mixing up my character names.. calling BIXIE (short for Beatrix) TRIX.  Anyway on to the next phase! Which is the hard work :P