Monday, 30 January 2012

Plot Decision

Alrighty then, i just need to finalise my plot for my Comedy Animation. Firstly i wanted to put it in the written form of a Beat-script. A beatscript is an aid to describing a story, before a storyboard is created. Each Beat refers to a new screen shot or change in movement.
So this is my story at the moment, however this is likelysubject to change, due to my ideas changing, through improvement and realism. It is also quite likely that i will want to add smaller details, not mentioned here, to further the plot or drama.
  1. Bell rings
  2. Boy runs out to the playground excited
  3. Boy turns back for someone
  4. Exasperated, Boy returns off-screen to collect Potatoe-Boy
  5. With great effort Boy drags Potato-Boy across panning screen to see-saw
  6. With further effort Boy places Potato-Boy on Left seat of see-saw
  7. When Potato-Boy's weight is settled on, the Left seat sinks to the floor. 
  8. Boy races to Right seat of see-saw
  9. Boy cannot get on to his seat. It is too high
  10. Jumping, Boy grabs hold of seat edge
  11. Boy scrambles onto bottom of the seat, having no way to reach the top. Boy hangs there contemplating this.
  12. Potato-Boy slides off Left seat, removing weight
  13. See-saw swings suddenly onto Boy, squishing him against the floor
I choose this story line, as it relates to the innocence of children, and how funny their innocence amuses the older generations. The main showing of innocence is the Boy using a pretend friend in a two-person activity. That children honestly think that such a task could work, with something that doesn't move is naivety. I wanted to play on these feeling that adults have towards children, so that they will find it funny.
This is reflective to adults, who may have done similar things when they were children themselves.

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