finished ch2 of the trc screenplay
(constellation si such good choice at the start btw)
just just where did you learn to this? how? ACTUALLY THE CHARACTERISATIONS !!! THE NARRATOR
how would you imagine the voices and the shots anyway (do you have any specifics in your head) ? would czerny be not shown fully to not give away the reveal? would the narrator and noahs voice be the same?
actually vibrating all the possibilities
thank you thank you THANK YOU for the ask!! i took a few screenwriting classes in college before i dropped out like a cool person. and i took part of my inspiration for narrator noah from netflix’s a series of unfortunate events—lemony snicket himself is the narrator and he’s heard the story before but it still upsets him and he can’t really do anything about it, and then later on it’s revealed that he’s heard the story because he was in it, and that just makes his narration all the more sinister. noah has all these hard hitting lines that he delivers somewhat emotionlessly, like he’s just reciting them from memory most of the time, but there are a handful that seem to be unscripted or unplanned or just full of emotion when the rest of them aren’t. which begs the question—how much does he remember? stuck in a time loop of his own creation, beginning and ending with both of his deaths and both of gansey’s deaths, seemingly having gone through it over and over but remembering less and less each time—is he just going through the motions and the emotional moments catch him off guard because he genuinely doesn’t expect them, or does he react the same way each time through, doomed to repeat everything over and over again regardless of how he really feels about it, almost like a longer version of him reenacting his own death? do you become noah when you rewatch the show? interesting to think about!
on the subject of czerny my beloved!!
in my head dead noah and alive noah are played by different actors. they look similar, but costuming hides this as much as possible until the reveal. noah, being a shell of his former self, is thinner, paler, more gaunt, he only wears the aglionby uniform and it’s worn as intended. his personality is really subdued compared to czerny—it only makes sense that the rest of him would be, too. czerny is a bit more filled out. his face is rounder, he’s got a tan, he doesn’t tie his tie correctly and he doesn’t tuck in his shirt. he wears this stupid snapback and a denim jacket with patches on it, mostly blink-182. noah’s voice is soft, it’s got little to no inflection most of the time unless specified. czerny is loud, he takes up space, he’s a goofball. in the world where this tv show is real, some really attentive viewers might draw some parallels between noah and czerny, but ultimately nobody will go the ‘they’re the same person’ route because of how different they are. and then noah will say “i was more when i was alive” and “i’m tired of decaying” and it will make sense why they’re so different. noah is all that’s left.
anyway i very much love talking about the concepts for my trc screenplay bc the tricky thing about script is that ‘show, don’t tell’ is a strict rule rather than just a suggestion like it is in other forms of writing. the narrator is a fun thing to have, but theoretically the show should be able to stand on its own without a narrator. if lost, the narrator’s absence should be felt, but the show can’t be unwatchable after that. so a lot of things that you would think the narrator would say have to be turned into offhand comments or body language or a flashback. it’s not easy AND it means i can’t outright say a lot of things the way i would in a standard fic. all this to say, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING and for the questions and i hope this answers them!! love you!!!
