Weekend Warlords – Genesis of a plotline
I recently gave Dakota a call and we discussed the general story arc of the documentary. Much like a news story, we really didn’t know how things would turn out until we got back with the footage in-hand. It’s a throwback to my days in radio broadcast news.
We talked about how the general story arc is much different from what we originally thought it would be. We went into the project knowing that the big event of the weekend was the knighting of Sir Gabriel, so we made efforts to focus on him throughout the weekend. It was totally unexpected that he left the camp to go to his girlfriend’s art show in Kansas City shortly after he arrived. So I left Dakota and Ryan behind at camp and accompanied Gabriel on the drive to KC.
That turned out to be a really smart idea, as it gave us some good footage to balance out the "ordinary" life with the sort of Dagorhir life and persona. From that point, Dakota came up with the Weekend Warlords title, and we figured the doc would be a contrast: Here are these guys/gals who lead everyday, maybe even mundane lives that the viewer could relate to, who become knights, kings, etc, on the weekends. They can slip into this sort of alternate reality/power structure where they are revered, respected and related to on a whole different set of principles.
Our perception changed yet again after we watched all the footage we got from the weekend. This was inevitable, as the two cameras were rarely in the same place at the same time, and we often interviewed different subjects. One thing was clear — the battles, although interesting, are not nearly as interesting as the characters. So we pinpointed a few different story "arcs" that would follow these characters that we can weave together, amidst the overall framework of the battles. Among them are Aster and Mystic and the hows/whys of what they are leading, and Gabriel’s quest to become a knight.
Knowing how things go, I fully expect this to change as we start putting these together, seeing what works and what doesn’t, and letting the structure of the film flow organically from the pieces as they are assembled. This weekend, I will post a short edited section and deconstruct it to illustrate the progress.
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