So What Next.......?

A script? I don't know if I'm ready for that yet. But I do know the basic structure and sequence with which I want to tell the story. Its Basically divided into three parts.

The first is an establishment and introduction to the characters, their society and way of life. It introduces the idea of a small sustainable community, their level and use of technology and their customs. In this segment I also attempt to explain their understanding of why they are apparently alone in the world and what threats they face. Their culture is based around certain Maori and East Asian traditions. As well as a moral/ social code based on the necessity to prevent overpopulation and maintain a sustainable relationship with their environment. This belief is kept in check by looming dangers which may or may not be explained. At the least, they will be visually alluded to. Other elements that suggest a more spiritual nature to the story are also brought up in this section, but then developed much further in the section section. An example of this would be the half risen Mt Taranaki, which has uprooted itself to show that it is more of a "giant living creature" than a normal geological mountain. However the mountain remains static in its pose and has done so for a long enough period that people accept it for what it currently is, but discredit the possibility that it can move. (Note: this is one example of unique iconography that I hope will appeal to a developing region such as Taranaki, hungry for an identity).

The section will be a chapter of instability, everything that is known and established will be twisted or discarded. It will be cataclysm related to the looming dangers presented in the first section. And simply because I love them, the defense systems of the community will involve mechs. Allot is undecided about this section but the general idea is that it will be brought into question weather their way of living was "enough" to survive. Or weather it was right at all. It will reflect our current dangers and potential cataclysm and question our nature and what the next evolutionary step would be. It will evaluate weather it is even possible to exist beyond a certain level of evolution or weather it is natural to entirely perish at a certain time.

The third section will draw allot more inspiration from Maori and Japanese mythology and spirituality. It will involve the journey from life to death for several characters and will switch between one character who is making the journey alone (and in an unusual way) and a pair of close friends who are making the more traditional Maori journey of death.

I could probably go into a bit more depth about each section, but I figure I can do that later, and with pictures to make it seem more substantial.