Wednesday, 9 April 2008

small discussion with Jason

I Voted For Golden Gods!

Me and kirill talked to Jason about the idea of the environment for a subject for our short film that we want to make. Kirill's idea of plastic bags in trees, were mostly talked about the main idea of multiple comical gags. Also we talked about how they could be dark and sinister, still with comic value. From this small discussion, me and kirill have talked and have a few thoughts about it. I have been fleshing out other ideas about the short film, meanwhile, but i am very keen on the comic value of the potential of this animated film. For the bags idea, a favorite idea, goes as follows;
-A worker is in a recycling factory and has just stopped for a quick break. He reaches down to his pocket and digs deep and rustles around and then slowly pulls out a plastic wrapped branded chocolate bar.
-As his hands bring the chocolate bar into his vision, he the carefully unwraps it, and folds the wrapper neatly and then unexpectedly throws it over his shoulder, sending it flying and fluttering into space.
-The camera would now follow the fluttering plastic wrapper, it would slowly flow and land in a small opening of big industrial size paper guillotine. The wrapper lands and gets jammed in a set of sprockets, the plastic prevents the cogs from spinning around, so the guillotine jerks to a halt.
Camera cuts to outside of machine and sees the conveyor belt continuing to move and is still feeding paper, though there is no gap under the big blade, because it is jammed shut, so the paper is forcefully pushed up againt the blade and is folding and crumpling, a huge tower of recycled cardboard is towering higher and higher.
-The camera then is focused on the other side of the guillotine and zooms into the mess of huge sheets of clear plastic, which are getting bigger and bigger, as there is no card to be packaged, so it packs itself.
-Now there is a huge ball of plastic, and it rolls of the conveyor belt and lands into a fiery furnace, where it expands into a semi molten plastic fire ball. It then rolls all over the factory and destroys almost everything, as it rolls it pulls things into it and gets bigger and bigger until it finally explodes, molten plastic shrapnel is scene flying at high speed all over the place.
-Next the scene fades in to a room coverd in a whitey-grey layer of plastic. The camera does a full circle of the room and then stops at an unusual plastic lump, the camera moves upwards, more of this unusual plastic lump is revealed, then an opening of some flesh, then a chin, then a nose and then fianlly a full face with molten plastic in his hair. It is the same worker who tossed his sweet wrapper and has half of the chocolate sticking out of his mouth.

thats just one gag, starts small - ends huge etc.

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