Week 1: Story Pitch

I'm not much a of a personal blogger -- any blogging I do is short, sweet, and full of nonsensical gifs (IE: tumblr). However, I'll try my best to keep this blog updated with as much one-quarter progress as possible. LET'S GO.

So after pitching my initial story idea out to my production class and garnering feedback, here's the gist of what I'll be doing for my one quarter:

The film will start out with a person scrambling for an unknown object at home. A calender indicates that it's Friday the 13th. Cut to the same person walking nervously down a sidewalk in the middle of the city. Then, cut to the person's TWIN walking from the opposite direction in the same part of the city, completely nonchalant and jovial. Then there will be a series of 3 gags where the paranoid twin tries to avoid all the common superstitions that come with Friday the 13th (step on a crack, walk under ladders, black cat) while the oblivious twin triggers all of them -- however PLOT TWIST -- the bad luck that should've affected the oblivious twin carries over to the paranoid twin and completely ruins his day. Finally once the gags end the twins meet each other in the middle of the city -- the oblivious twin reveals that he was carrying a lucky clover that belonged to the paranoid twin the entire time and cheekly throws it away on the sidewalk while the angered paranoid twin watches. Then the oblivious twin steps on a crack while crossing the street and subsequently gets hit by a car. THE END.

Problems I need to work out include:

• What kind of format I'll be animating the gags in (split screen, cross-cutting, etc)
• Determining the style of the animation (I'll be using TVPaint to animate)
• Determining the full length of the film and coming up solutions to shorten it if necessary
• Work out the ending more maybe

Scripts are due next week -- hopefully after writing mine I'll be able to determine how long my one quarter will be (I have a 1:30 min limit).