A Proposal for a New TQR Menu Item: Serial
I fired off this gmail in a fit of inspiration:
Theodore Q. Rorschalk: Serial, as in a menu item to feature the ongoing corporate soap opera. Granted, we haven't keyed on this aspect to much this first quarter cuz we're concentrating on getting the process of story vetting down. But for next quarter I'm talking now. We should have a menu item titled 'Serial' that can be updated on a weekly basis like I have been doing to 'From the Chair' on the main menu.
Creating the 'corporate soap opera' from whole cloth is not even necessary anymore since we've got some stroylines to work with due to the day-to-day operations of the shop.
1. The rivalry twixt Floor and Terminal. The Floor denigrating the Terminal for taking its time and the Terminal looking down their collective noses at the lowly denizens of the slushy bottom feeding Floor. This animosity has real promise for at least on Serial segment.
2. H3K vs. LaFloor in match twixt Terminal Heavyweights. Heck, we could pit them in a real-time cage match thing in the Conference Room. Call it Rage in a Cage or Hell in the Cell (my apologies to World Wrestling Entertainment).
3. The May/December Romance twixt Doomey and DePlancher. Is it real or just the insipid effect of rampant rumour mongering?
These are the ones that come to mind, I'm sure there are more.
Anyhow. I was thinking 'Serial' could be assigned to one staff member a week. It can be written in any form the staffer so chooses (screenplay format/flash fiction/short story/song/epic poem/whatever) and could be handed down from week to week. The stipulation would be that each progressive week's writer incorporate some of the storyline of the last week, or at least not contradict it, so that each Serial builds on the last like a normal soap opera ie Days of Our Lives.
What do you all think?
The Usual Suspects Responded. I wish more folks would cotton to my enthusiasm. Guess I'm going to have to learn most of them by sheer determination.
Gabrielle DePlancher: like that idea. If it's specifically assigned to one person each week, something of new continuing content in a variety [more interesting and diverse] of styles, while at the same time keeping some kind of continuum flowing from post to post. Yes, I say.
Boligard Doomey: i think that is so freakin hot. great idea. a story in the making!
TQR: Yeah. Me too. And now that we have a bit of camaradarie and animosity for each other, we can channel that into some storylines that are not too far from the persona-l truth. You see? I think we ought to start the Serial slowly, using it as a weekly installment hard copy, then the quarter after that maybe graduate to scripts in the Conference Room, then next quarter graduate to vague prompts in the Conference Room to improvise upon. Like actors going from a read through of the script, to rehearsal, to a full blown performance. But then where do we go? Oh, we'll think of something once we get there, right?
We even could write scripts to be acted out in the Conference Room/Stage that could be copied and pasted into the Serial menu item. That would be cool. But this option would probably only work if we had a public view-only Conference Room (which we don't have yet) so that random public people couldn't crash the performance. This type of 'acting' would, of course, also lend itself to improvisation, which would make TQR truly akin to SCTV, one of its inspirations. Dunno. Sound off, if you can.
Boli: well, that was my idea. hey, theo, you are stealing my ideas! nah, maybe i just dreamed i had that idea. i was thinking that we wouldn't need a script, rather we'd have a basic storyline to follow, a setup and a general place to end up, the middle would be a roller coaster ride.
TQR: maybe it was your idea. Maybe it was our telepathic love child. I like the idea of a basic story line. What form would this take instead of a script. More like a movie treatment (are you familiar with that fancy Hollywood lingo?). By the by, when are you going to add some lingo? You were all jacked up to do that thang, and it's been twisting there for months. Hop to! Give me one good lingo, boyo.
DeP: this aspect is really dependent on the ability of its participants to improvise and entertain and be somewhat kinda funny. Are all o' us prepared/capable of that kinda thang do you think?
TQR: sure, but a great script can go a long way toward making some average B list actor look like Sir Laurence Olivier.
Theodore Q. Rorschalk: Serial, as in a menu item to feature the ongoing corporate soap opera. Granted, we haven't keyed on this aspect to much this first quarter cuz we're concentrating on getting the process of story vetting down. But for next quarter I'm talking now. We should have a menu item titled 'Serial' that can be updated on a weekly basis like I have been doing to 'From the Chair' on the main menu.
Creating the 'corporate soap opera' from whole cloth is not even necessary anymore since we've got some stroylines to work with due to the day-to-day operations of the shop.
1. The rivalry twixt Floor and Terminal. The Floor denigrating the Terminal for taking its time and the Terminal looking down their collective noses at the lowly denizens of the slushy bottom feeding Floor. This animosity has real promise for at least on Serial segment.
2. H3K vs. LaFloor in match twixt Terminal Heavyweights. Heck, we could pit them in a real-time cage match thing in the Conference Room. Call it Rage in a Cage or Hell in the Cell (my apologies to World Wrestling Entertainment).
3. The May/December Romance twixt Doomey and DePlancher. Is it real or just the insipid effect of rampant rumour mongering?
These are the ones that come to mind, I'm sure there are more.
Anyhow. I was thinking 'Serial' could be assigned to one staff member a week. It can be written in any form the staffer so chooses (screenplay format/flash fiction/short story/song/epic poem/whatever) and could be handed down from week to week. The stipulation would be that each progressive week's writer incorporate some of the storyline of the last week, or at least not contradict it, so that each Serial builds on the last like a normal soap opera ie Days of Our Lives.
What do you all think?
The Usual Suspects Responded. I wish more folks would cotton to my enthusiasm. Guess I'm going to have to learn most of them by sheer determination.
Gabrielle DePlancher: like that idea. If it's specifically assigned to one person each week, something of new continuing content in a variety [more interesting and diverse] of styles, while at the same time keeping some kind of continuum flowing from post to post. Yes, I say.
Boligard Doomey: i think that is so freakin hot. great idea. a story in the making!
TQR: Yeah. Me too. And now that we have a bit of camaradarie and animosity for each other, we can channel that into some storylines that are not too far from the persona-l truth. You see? I think we ought to start the Serial slowly, using it as a weekly installment hard copy, then the quarter after that maybe graduate to scripts in the Conference Room, then next quarter graduate to vague prompts in the Conference Room to improvise upon. Like actors going from a read through of the script, to rehearsal, to a full blown performance. But then where do we go? Oh, we'll think of something once we get there, right?
We even could write scripts to be acted out in the Conference Room/Stage that could be copied and pasted into the Serial menu item. That would be cool. But this option would probably only work if we had a public view-only Conference Room (which we don't have yet) so that random public people couldn't crash the performance. This type of 'acting' would, of course, also lend itself to improvisation, which would make TQR truly akin to SCTV, one of its inspirations. Dunno. Sound off, if you can.
Boli: well, that was my idea. hey, theo, you are stealing my ideas! nah, maybe i just dreamed i had that idea. i was thinking that we wouldn't need a script, rather we'd have a basic storyline to follow, a setup and a general place to end up, the middle would be a roller coaster ride.
TQR: maybe it was your idea. Maybe it was our telepathic love child. I like the idea of a basic story line. What form would this take instead of a script. More like a movie treatment (are you familiar with that fancy Hollywood lingo?). By the by, when are you going to add some lingo? You were all jacked up to do that thang, and it's been twisting there for months. Hop to! Give me one good lingo, boyo.
DeP: this aspect is really dependent on the ability of its participants to improvise and entertain and be somewhat kinda funny. Are all o' us prepared/capable of that kinda thang do you think?
TQR: sure, but a great script can go a long way toward making some average B list actor look like Sir Laurence Olivier.
DeP: D'accord!
All right, then. And so the makings of a new quarter begin to grind into motion. The whole concept of TQR is keeping it fresh and mining everything that goes into making the e-zine work for dynamic content. Even the fictional corporate soap opera will be inspired by the interactions of the persona on-site, in the Free Market and wherever else they may tangle. Capische, hombre?
posted by Theodore Q. Rorschalk at 7:56 PM
2 Comments:
I like that. We need a committee! I'd rather the acronym (is that what initials that stand from something longer is called? If not, forgive me, I, like you, am stupid) should be CCCP, like the old Soviet Union had on their olympic uniforms. Characters in Charge of Creative P-... Got a Thesaurus?
Neither of you seem to be stupid but do you know somebody named Basil and, if so, has he been here this week?
He owes me $5.00.
Where is this meeting you speak about? Can anybody come to it and amek suggestions for CCCC/CCCP-ian?
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