lorraine and i aimed to develop provocative characters and develop nothing sacred scenes that when brought together...would make a meaningful story...
as for character development...we got to dig into the shadows of the unconscious and work with the rawness of human experience...things you've (we've) wanted to say...things you've (we've) wanted to do....things you (we) long for...but that you can't pursue without being thought of as...well... you know...you fill in the blank...dozen of maddening adjectives...
the characters in mismo are a derivation of mindful experimentation and our experiential mind...these characters spoke to us...either as people we've crossed paths with in the exterior world...or people that have migrated before us in our inner world...
once we had our characters...in loose form...we needed them to meet up...this is where scene development comes in....
you ask yourself...what would i like to see them do...a part of this is based on personal interest such as my interest in having bella and diego feed each other grapes...i once saw an ad for a high end carpet store in san francisco showing two young...beautiful people...laying on a carpet...scantily dressed...feeding each other grapes...i thought...heck...why can't the 'other side of the tracks' characters share in this bliss...nothing sacred, right?...
yet as mismo got built out...an internal gravitational pull started to create boundaries for what was possible and impossible...since as we developed characters...we also developed expectations for our characters...the consistency factor crept in...
once we had the characters and scenes developed in loose form...we posted the scenes...in the form of index cards...on a wall so we can see if our characters and scenes were consistent with what was in our head... or how much of story was still in our head...
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