Capstone Idea pt. 2

My senior capstone needs to culminate aspects of my major and what I've learned in COR. Honestly, I'm not even sure if COR is "COR," "Core," or "CORE." For the purpose of this entry...it's going to be "COR."

But I feel that my capstone should not only incorporate ideas of COR and my major, but also from every other class that I have taken. Outside the Professional Writing Major curriculum and COR Classes, I've taken Screenwriting, Interactive Storytelling, Digital Interactive Design and 2-D Motion Graphics. Honestly, I've wanted to work on my story in such an interactive way where I become the director. After taking Screenwriting, I've realized that the writer has very little to do other than write the script. Same as Interactive Storytelling. Both classes revolved around script writing (as in action/dialogue, not computer scripting). Since I can see my story fairly well in my mind, I want to be a pioneer of the visuals in my story.

Although I've been working on my story for some time, I want to change the basic plot of it to something I have been looking at in my COR-330-03 ICS Morocco Class: lack of womens' rights. My story revolves around environmental issues, and while we've touched a bit on that in the same class, it's not as demanding as womens' rights. The difficulty with this is that I have a lot of editing to do (just the first chunk of the book...and the rest) which really takes away from the finalized dialogue of the main character. Mind you the main character ONLY speaks in iambic pentameter (10-syllable sentences) and that's more antagonizing to change than the plot. It does make more sense to try killing the secondary female character when womens' rights are an issue instead of environmental actions. Besides, everything is environmentalism. Al Gore anyone? How about Pandora? When's the last time we actually saw something on Women's Rights? My story already has a HUGE religious premise around it (Secular and Sacred???) which is more about defying the existence of God by one character (who is in fact an Angel) and his ignorance towards why humans believe in a fictionalized character God. At the same time, I guess this could also be related to Scientific Revolution (going from steam power to fossil fuels?). Yeah I've been working on this story for a while...

So my Capstone Idea: Finish and edit the book NOW and get going on animating the first few chapters (Aesthetic Expression?). Even creating a trailer of the book and have it interactive somehow. A small scale multimedia project where I create another blog and Twitter account to keep a log of what's going on and how I'm progressing. With this, ANYONE can participate with the progress of my capstone (Concepts of Community anyone?).

I know that the idea Playgrounds for the World would be the most ideal and inclusive way to incorporate COR, but that idea would be better off with someone in the International Business department. Which would be cool if I could work with someone in the IB department who doesn't have a capstone idea: give him/her this idea and work with the individual to get it going in China.