Lazy Sunday # 135: The Third And The Seventh

Usually, I plug the videos in at the end of these Sunday posts. This week, we're doing things a little different.

Please expand to full screen by punching that little button in the bottom right corner of the video frame to get the full effect.

What follows is 10 minutes of sublimely beautiful imagery…

…sublimely

beautiful…

…imagery

that…

…believe

it…

…or

not…

…simply

does…

…not

exist…

…anywhere

in…

…the

real…

….world!

Because…

…every

single…

…frame

was…

…rendered

in…

…a

computer.

Every single image.

There is no setting for your story that is impossible anymore. Perhaps nothing in story telling is impossible anymore, or beyond our technical abilities, or our budgets and our desire to communicate to an audience.

And it's only going to get cheaper and easier.

Good thing because audiences are going to expect more from us. This season, such productions as "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones" will bring epic scale to the small screen and making the audience feel they are truly inside the world of your story will become imperative.

And that means that as a writer, producer or showrunner you need to know as much about how it's done as you can. Sometimes making it look bigger, richer and more believable is cheaper and easier than bringing it to life in any other way.

Here's a sampling of the practical applications from HBO's "John Adams".

Don't write what you think they want. Write what you know you can pull off. And Enjoy your Sunday.