The Highly-Illustrated Screenplay Narrative

  Do average people witness climate change if they’ve been around for a while? #climatechange Chronicles of Earthly Change https://youtu.be/yDH0EGNv3gw Comment appréhender le changement climatique à titre personnel, malgré les climatosceptiques ? Les médias diffusent fréquemment des avertissements alarmistes concernant le changement climatique. À l’échelle individuelle, l’expérience du changement climatique est plus nuancée : des vagues de froid suivies de pics de chaleur, puis de nouveau du froid, ou inversement. Pourtant, même à titre individuel, si l’on suit l’évolution du climat dans sa propre région, des tendances claires se dégagent généralement. #changementclimatique #criseclimatique #lechangementclimatiqueestréel * How can we make sense of climate change on a personal level, despite the denialists? In the news, dire warnings about climate change are widespread. On an individual level, the experience of climate change is more ambiguous; cold spells followed by hot fluctuatio...

  An authorial moviestory — published in the 80s, and made into various video forms from 2019 to now. The most recent below. High School 1976 https://youtu.be/psk5tQXr4Ys

  Note: this is a new version of a video I posted a few days ago. I’ve improved the audio levels, and hopefully that makes it more listenable. Regarding the animation sequences in the background of this video: they’re from a moviestory entitled High School that I write a long time ago, and first made into a movie in 2019. At that time, I shot the footage around the university where I teach (because it resembles a high school). But I didn’t have actors and deliberately avoided shooting the faces of random strangers. However, since this story is very much character-driven, I’ve always wanted to have actors play the main roles. AI animation allows me to create them. Do these animations work as well as real actors? Obviously not; human actors will always be irreplaceable. But the new version of The moviestory (now entitled High School 1976), works, I hope, as a bridge between a spoken word rendition of a story and a filmed version that has real production funding behind it. * Artist St...

  In the 1930s, vets were desperate— sometimes committing suicide they were so impoverished. The government of Herbert Hoover decided their protests were a sign of “incipient revolution” and sent in the troops. The Business Army: The Bonus March https://youtu.be/SiYT9ObB6W0

  Nursing Homes and Medical Staff: Do They Tell Families Enough? https://youtu.be/B5ay1WLUaIQ

  Can the short story be reinvented? The form has a lot of potential. But, culturally, it’s been sidelined by the novel and even the poem. The latter two have adapted to a digital world. (Viz Philip Marchand.) YouTube: High School — new version, part one  https://youtu.be/pBfV_iZ9X-c