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Outline I like (especially for shorter works)

Note: I learned this in film class (which is why it says "defines the movie" at the top, but I've also had success using it for non-film writing. It's basically a three-act structure, but I find for non-novels it's easier to work with than Save The Cat, for example.

Another note: Unraveling The Map is rarely a whole scene in and of itself in my personal experience - I usually use it to create an opening image that leads into the Launch Point, which I make the first scene

Unraveling The Map - Do you have an opening scene that defines the movie?

The Launch Point - Where are we, and who are we with?

The First Leg - What’s a normal day look like in this world?

Change Course - What sets our characters off on their journey from normalcy?

The Foot of the Mountain - Okay, we’re going on this journey together. (choosing the direction for solving the problem)

Climbing The Side - It starts hard, but you get used to the problems as you go.

Through The Cave - Do you have a B story? Set that story off on its own now too.

Reassess the Problem - You’re at the middle. Is there another way to get it done?

Try and Fail - Things begin to fall apart, can they handle it?

The Fall - The worst thing happens, something so bad you don’t think you can get up.

The Hidden Clue - What do your characters discover about themselves/the problem that they never saw before?

Race To the Finish - They’re up and running no matter what

The Treasure Chest - Did they get what they came for?

Where We Go From Here - Show us the world in a new light, hint what’s next.

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Windows ‘95

What happens at a point of intersection? Materials collide, butt up against each other, or might be overlaid. One thing changes, one surface meets another and there is a moment when something stops and something else starts. I’m not being poetic for the sake of it. I’m trying to work out or test out how I can define this point of intersection in an improved way.

It isn’t just about a point of intersection in a general sense. Rather I am interested in the moment when the digital surface merges with the physical world, with the tactile action or with something that might be considered as being more tangible.

So, without knowing the upshot of what I am currently looking at, I’ve been collecting and collating photographic resources. 95 images of brickwork, of surfaces and covered up openings on buildings. I’ve called it ‘Windows 95’ and it is mostly comprised of images of windows, of bricked up window spaces. These windows were once able to be looked through, but then the surface was altered. The point at which the window can’t be seen through, but is still marked as being part of different surface is my launching point at the moment.

By revisiting these images, and thinking through them by painting them (or at least painting parts of them) I guess I’m trying to see what I really think of the transition between one surface and another. And of course I’m doing this thinking using paint. Using painting as my machine for thinking, as I re-present the abstracted ‘real’ images and then look to view them digitally too.