Schools Starts this Week!!

It's been about 3 months since I wrote anything besides quick notes in my tiny marble pads and while I've done extensive planning and figured out plot angles, character archs and even the titles for my novel trilogy, I am SOOO ready to start full time writing again.

This week I'm going to be printing out all 16 finished chapters and reading them straight through with a big yellow highlighter and a pen for detailed notes. I'm very, very excited. I miss my characters very much...

That said, I came across this article this morning that is pretty much what I'm predicting in my novel, but instead of lamenting the end of cinima, I'm actually coming up with a way to do it better...

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1399142007

Only lifting selected quotes:

Internet 'killing cinema', says director Scott
RAYMOND HAINEY

THE Hollywood director, Ridley Scott, warned yesterday that new technology is killing off the big-screen experience. The Oscar-winning County Durham-born movie mogul said mobile phones and computers threatened movie-making on an epic scale.

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He said: "People sit there watching a movie on a tiny screen. You can't beat it, you've got to join it and deal with it and also get competitive with it. But we try to do films which are in support of cinema, in a large room with good sound and a big picture."

However, Scott admitted: "I'm sure we're on a losing wicket, but we're fighting technology. While it has been wonderful in many aspects, it also has some big negative downsides."

Former Edinburgh Film Festival director Mark Cousins said Scott's prognosis was too gloomy.

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Mr Cousins said: "We still go to big cinemas at weekends collectively, but we also watch movies individually at home with our big TVs and sound systems."

He added that the message was more important than the medium. Mr Cousins said: "I take the view that content is king - it's the story and it's not what format it presented on. That has always been the case."

And he added: "There has been an increase in more specialist movie houses and the types of films which are doing well are documentaries, which never used to be the case, while animation is making a comeback."

Basically, what I predict will likely happen is that there will not only be more specialist movie houses, but genre houses. These will be similar to sports bars, but have mood for the type of 'movies' they show. And to top that off, more entertainment will be interactive like American Idol - and these genre houses will project epic reality TV broadcasts on their mega screens. These shows will have an internet componant where fans can form communities on line and subscribe to archives of the episodes and behind the scenes (like Wrestling) But then people will gladly pay to watch a show they could see at home, only they prefer to be with other fans and an intense 'club' like atmosphere.

This isn't what the entire novel is about, it's just the career of one of the main characters - he's a gladiator in a role playing game and he has fans the world over.

AHHH!!! I only have two more days before I can start working!!! I love my kids, and I've had a great summer with them, but I'm SOO excited I can barely stand it! *L*