TIMESLIP: Episode 6: The Curse of Bodmin House BTS

[Seb]

I can't really put a date on this, it's difficult as I have to fit in around my work until July, but I have the script pretty much finalised. I also have an important prop so preproduction is almost 100% complete.

I'm also now writing Episode 7 (literally just taken a minute's break!).

Sooo... That's about it for now. Publicity Poster coming soon, and I'll keep you up to date!

BAD WOLF! BAD WOLF! BAD WOLF!

[DalekSupreme08]

That explains your location!
Looking forward to it!

[DoctorWhoDave]

Ooh, sounds very interesting.
Really looking forward to it.

BAD WOLF! BAD WOLF! BAD WOLF!

[Chandra]

BAD WOLF! BAD WOLF! BAD WOLF!

Is that anything to do with the new episode? Can't wait for this! Does it have 'The Beast of Bodmin Moor' in it?

[Seb]

Ooh... No, it doesn't have anything to do with the next episode.. think what I might be talking about!

[Sontar Ha]

Its got 3 little pigs! (Whos afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf, Tra la la la laa!) Or a werewolf. Fingers crossed for 3 pigs though. Questions for you Seb:
When you make Timeslip, Do you picture the characters as the actor, or the figure?
And do you writ a basic outline for your comics or do you make it up as you start scripting?
if there are three pigs, fingers crossed we get pig smileys!

[Seb]

Um... Sorry, no pigs! (maybe...!)

I take a huge amount of time in 'pre-production' - I spend ages and ages just thinking about episodes, every moment I get just coming up with ideas and seeing where they take me. Eventually I'll write out a plan, the detail of which will determine what the plan looks like. I knew what I wanted to happen in Episode 4, for example, so just made a sort of 'round plan' showing the progression, helping me to write the script. Last night, finalising the plan for Episode 7, I was stuck for how to hold it all together - it was just floating ideas - so I wrote everything down on a big sheet of paper and gradually turned that into a plan. Sometimes I might write a synopsis, sometimes I'll draw pictures to get it in my head, sometimes I'll pose the figures and sometimes I might even act it out to myself. Back for Episode 1 I just wrote down each scene, the only bit with a script was the TARDIS scene at the end, and for episode 2 I think I'd been planning for so long I didn't need a script, plan or anything - it just fell together! This is interesting actually, I might write a nice article about how I've approached each episode!

As to characters/figures... I suppose if I know the character (e.g. The Doctor, Sarah Jane) I imagine the actor. Otherwise I suppose I imagine an actor looking like the figure who speaks as I imagine. I've never actually seen Nick Cutter speak (I understand h'e Scottish isn't he?) so his voice is just what I imagine.

[Sontar Ha]

Move over RTD's 'the writers tale' This is the indepth story ( i really have to stop putting mr greens im my posts!)

[Seb]

Yes - I really could write a book about Timeslip!

...!

[Matt]

I've never actually seen Nick Cutter speak (I understand h'e Scottish isn't he?) so his voice is just what I imagine.

He sounded American to me

[Dalek Thay]

I've never actually seen Nick Cutter speak (I understand h'e Scottish isn't he?) so his voice is just what I imagine.

He sounded American to me

How??

So what's this one going to have in it Seb? Aliens, freaky murderers, Daleks, Cybermen?

Ahh, with the release of the classic Cybermen, I can see them being an option.

[Matt]

When I heard him in Primeval 3.1 - he sounded American, definately not Scottish. Though knowing me I'm thinking of someone else entirely

I think this will be a very spooky one, similar to Midnight but bigger.

[Seb]

It is a smaller one actually, I suppose a bit sort of 'Countrycide' or 'The Family of Blood', but with something very different...

I hope to start filming in the next few days, but there will be a lot of small yet complicated effects...

[TorchwoodJoe]

Can't wait for this! When's the preview poster?
Joe

[Seb]

You'll have to wait and see...

Soon!

BAD WOLF AGAIN!