User blog:Freefalling Lilacs/TDI-FYE Details and Life Update

Okay, well hey to anybody who stumbles across this blog entry. I'm sorry to disappoint that this isn't more character pics, but instead just some other things: some pointless, some not.

First off, the next two character pictures for Total Drama Island: For Your Entertainment that I'll be drawing are Avery and Paul. Originally I was going to do Irina since I wanted to try out doing a female character who is supposed to be very attractive, but I told Sprinklemist Paul would be the next guy and I don't want to feature them in a blog together for... um... secret reasons. (And just pretend that me saying that's totally not suspicious...)

Anyways, as the blog title promised, a life update from me: Friday at the ungodly hour of 4:45 AM I'll be taking off on a plane from my hometown in Connecticut. We'll be switching planes in Miami, Florida, but from there I'll be in Jamaica for a week-long vacation! I am totally psyched to go there because 1) This is my first trip out of the U.S. and 2) It's an all-inclusive, totally gorgeous resort. I may or may not have my computer, and even if I do I doubt I'll be spending a lot of time on it ('cause, you know, I'll be on a tropical island and all and might actually want to do something other than be a laptop-weilding hermit like I usually am.)

For the record, this won't be my only out of the country trip for a while as I'm going to France and Spain on a school trip next spring, but I'll mention that at a later date.

But as promised...

TDI:FYE Details
With the story coming up soon (I think I'll have it up at the end of the month) I figured I should start dishing out a few more details to get some people interested. So here's some of the story's basic, written in the style that I would be wrting the story.

Synopsis
After the first several seasons of Total Drama finally came to a close, everybody involved with their production was rolling in money. The winning campers were millionaires, the losing campers had media fame, and the producers were overall pleased with the popularity of and profits made from the show.

The fans, however, were not pleased. They wanted, no, needed more Total Drama. They wrote letters, started websites, posted online videos, and signed petitions begging for a new season. For years the producers wouldn’t comply and had figured that the show had run its course and that there was no way they could ever gather up the old cast anyway. Who would be crazy enough to sign another contract after several season of torture?

That’s when one producer had the great idea to use the old concepts but put a new twist on them. Since the original fan base had grown several years older now, they needed to appeal to the teenagers instead of the preteens with their show’s audience. So instead of a stereotypical summer camp experience or a musical trip around the world, they went with a tamer idea: base the challenges off of today’s pop culture.

Once hearing that a new season of Total Drama was in pre-production, the media was instantly interested. One reporter, however, was particularly interested. Rachel Claire, the editor-in-chief of popular tabloid magazine RealityGossip, had blackmail on Carla McLean, an actress who is nowadays best recognized as the cousin of Chris McLean and one of Total Drama Island’s most important producers. Using this blackmail and her persuasion skills, Rachel Claire convinced the show to allow her reporters on the set of the show taking pictures, recording rumors, and sitting through embarrassing interviews with the show’s cast. Apparently the kids these days like celebrity gossip.

With the new challenges, new cast, new media interference, and most importantly a new $1,000,000 cash prize Total Drama Island: For Your Entertainment was born.

Setting
Located in the ocean near the coast of America (the show won’t specify exactly [or even generally] where) is the appropriately named Ocean Island. This island has beaches on its shores and receives all kinds of weather and all four seasons. Weather can often be sporadic in this area though, so it could be blazing hot one day and then have snowstorm warnings the next.

Ocean Island, however, is not usually called by its name as dominating a good percentage of the island is Major City. Filled with everything from looming skyscrapers to quaint suburban outskirts to beach bungalows by the shore, Major City is as diverse as it gets.

In Major City is a previously unused film set that has been given to Total Drama and was quickly renamed McLean Studios. McLean Studios is home to dozens of film sets including the likes of a Victorian romance, a ‘50’s diner, a spaceship, a high school, a garage, a prison, and many more. No doubting that these sets will be used in various challenges throughout the season.

Smack dab in the center of McLean Studios is a three-floor hotel-like complex. Due to the giant boost in the budget that Carla McLean provided the show, this will be where the contestants, Chris, and Chef Hatchet will be staying. Much more luxurious than the cabins and trailers, huh? Well… not quite. There’re quite a few catches that staying in the hotel will bring to the competitors, but those will be revealed in the first episode…

Episodes
Each episode will be divided into several parts/chapters (very similar to how I write Total Drama Island: Again!) which will have a challenge incorporated into them somewhere. Occasionally there will be some non-challenge episodes, though those won't occur often. Each episode is named after the challenge that occurs in it, and each individual chapter will have a name (again, reference TDI:A! to get an example). Each episode will have three chapters on average, though it might go over or under depending on the challenge.

As a little sneak peek, I figured why not give out the first few episode titles:

Episode One: How To Survive Your Fifteen Minutes of Fame

Epsiode Two: The Bachelor Isn't Interested

Episode Three: Video Killed the Reality Star

Hopefully this blog post gets more people interested in the story, and if not then it at least informs the few people already interested more of what it's about! For the record there is no island officially named Ocean Island that I know about, and the pun on Major City is completely intended.