Exquisite Biome - an ecosystem-crafting game

Wonderful wonderful. Our final step before we move on to our second Beast is to craft a scene to illustrate the beardozer in its natural habitat. There's a few ways the game guide suggests we can do this, but given our play-by-post format and the way we've delegated one card to each player, I'm going to propose this method:

We'll try and make a script for a segment in a wildlife documentary. One of us describes the creature's actions (the choreographer), someone else provides the voice-over narration (the narrator), and the third can describe to us what the environment/weather/etc is doing - what we can hear and see in the scene. Person number 3 (the cinematographer!) also gets to direct the camera movements and how shots are framed - if the choreographer tells us the Beast is crossing a river, the cinematographer can tell us if we're looking at this like a wide panoramic view, or low down at the level of the water while the Beast churns it all up.

Our script can be formatted like this, with the actions of the beast, details about the scene around it, and the movement of the camera staying aligned to the left.

Voice over narration is bold, and centered.

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At first what we'll have in this quote box will be bare-bones as heck, but everyone is welcome to double back to earlier parts of the script and add more detail, or start the next section.

Of course, the choreographer and the cinematographer's sections need to take turns with the narrator's. Those two shouldn't rush ahead and plot out the whole scene.

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Some of these pairs of shot and voice-over might be quite short-

Because there's a moment of anticipation!

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-but we don't have to break it up like this for every individual cut in the "footage".

And it must be stressed that this part of the game, is very much being made up on the fly. One must be flexible in such circumstances.

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If this makes even a modicum of sense, the two of you can choose which role you'd like to take on first! I'm happy to take the third one. If either of you choose to be the cinematographer, you can start us off by giving us our opening shot.