Concert Posters - Evelyn - P. A. Nolte

1/ On the doorstep of a small row house sleeps a young man in his early 20's.  His shaggy hair and denim jacket doing little to protect him from the cold.  A 1964 Valiant Barracuda is parked on the street.

2/ Closer, his unconscious form takes up most of a panel.

3/ As a shadow falls over him, he cautiously and groggily opens an eye.

4/ Silhouetted by the sun, a young girl still dressed for clubbing stands over him.

5/ He stands unsteadily.

6/ And meets her face to face.  She's a blank wall.  He's anything but.

7/ Having proved what he needed to prove, he passes right by her.

8/ She jumps slightly at the sound of his car door slamming but she won't turn around.

SFX: SLAM!

9/ The Barracuda pulls away from the house.  The girl has yet to move.  On the bumper is a sticker of a pirate ship/dirigible/phonograph.

Concert Posters (The Tragically Hip) – Epic Sendoff – MK Stangeland, Jr.

(As I was thinking of a script for this week, I remembered the time we had a week for that thing called “Phonogram”, and decided to write a script set in said world.)

(5 Panels)

Panel 1: Final concert for THE TRAGICALLY HIP – the members a loading onto a ship in the background of the stage that resembles the one from the CONCERT POSTER from this weeks prompt.

CROWD (Off-panel): Encore! Encore! Encore!

Panel 2: Lined up on the ship, the band begins to play.

SFX: (Music Notes)

Panel 3: Back of the ship – the part that looks like it came from a record player – starts playing music notes.

SFX: (Music Notes)

Panel 4: Bottom of the ship, where the parts of the stage keeping it in place pull away.

SFX: (Music Notes)

Panel 5: The ship flies up and over the crowds, who go absolutely wild.

SFX: (Lots and lots of Music Notes)

SFX: (Cheering)

(END PAGE)

Concert Posters - Now for Plan A - Grant McLaughlin

1 - We are back in the early days of North American colonialism.  It is winter.  Close on a group of aboriginal men standing at a clearing and looking onto a beach.  They wear serious, curious expressions.  Frame so they're visible form the shoulders up.  On the beach in the background are some extremely ill and weak looking Europeans who have just rowed onto shore - few, if any of them, have the energy to stand.  Their rowboats are forgotten behind them.  If it doesn't overfill the panel, maybe the ship (or ships) they crossed the sea in are visible in the far background (but that isn't integral).

CAPTION: The locals found us weak and malnourished.

2 - The group of aboriginals have come onto the beach and are helping these poor Europeans.  They offer food, help them stand, and all that good stuff.  The aboriginals are empathetic and caring; the Europeans could not be more thankful.

CAPTION: They reached out and welcomed us as friends.

3 - Springtime.  Early evening.  The Europeans are bidding farewell as a group of aboriginal men and women leave their tiny settlement.  Maybe have some handshakes / hugs.  Try to show they just shared a meal or whatever.  Everyone looks pleased and happy.  And healthy

CAPTION: We would not have survived without their help.

4 - On the Europeans standing in a clearing and looking onto the aboriginal settlement, obviously mirroring the first panel.  The Europeans look serious and pained expressions.  Again, shoulders-up framing.  It is night time, but there is plenty of activity in the settlement in the background - maybe some fires, conversations, and general life.

CAPTION: Theirs is a kindness so great it breaks the heart.

5 - On the bodies / torsos of the Europeans.  They are all holding guns.  This could either be a new panel or potentially the continuation of panel 4, simply broken by the gutter.

CAPTION: Particularly considering ours was never a mission of peace.

Why Concert Posters?

Because it's been too long since I've written a script from my all-time favourite type of prompt.

But I figured I'd sweeten the pot a bit, too.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but The Tragically Hip - a major band in the Canadian pantheon - have recently wrapped their final tour. Gord Downie, the group's lead singer, was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour earlier this year so they used their already planned tour for their latest album to have a big send-off to the country they call home. It culminated with a concert in Kingston, Ontario (their hometown) that was broadcast ad-free on our national broadcaster. It had an audience of 11 million throughout the evening, which is one-third of Canada's population. As you can see, it was kind of a big deal up here.

For my part, I'm not actually too familiar with the band and their music (only a few tracks here and there), but so many of my friends have been talking The Hip of late that it just felt right to dive into their concert poster back catalogue to pick something that caught my eye, so here we are.

As always, I'd encourage you to take the prompt in any direction you so choose.  If you've been big into The Hip for way too long, see where that takes you.  If this post and poster is the first you've heard of them, go with that.  And should you find yourself somewhere in between, that's just fine as well.

Tenures, play-at-homers, what matters is that you think on it, make a decision, and follow it through fully completely.

Cheers.