Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Script: Act 1

1:1 Wide shot, then scroll and zoom onto 2d island
The short film starts with an establishing shot of the two islands, the 2d island more animated, with music emanating.
1:2 wide shot about 10 ft in the air
There is a bonfire in the middle with lots of critters dancing and playing all over the island.
1:3 Quickly zoom over from shot 1:2
A bit over to the left of all the fun is a close up of a bush, the bush shakes and out pops the main protagonist critter's head. (I shall dub him proto for this script) he looks around
1:4 Zoom upon the flower
Proto spots a flower near the base of a cliff
1:5 Side shot, you can see the small cliff as well as other critters playing in the background
Proto gets excited and runs over to the flower, examines it and starts to try pulling it out with his beak.
He manages to pull it out, but the resault is a crack and a rumble, the rumble stops, and then part of the cliff breaks off and smashes one of the back ground character, the others laugh at the smashed critter.
1:6 Close up of proto's face
Proto ignores the incident and looks over at the chick critter all lovey dovey like.
1:7 side view
Proto starts running over to the girl, but along the way gets tripped by a bigger critter who looks quite smug and pleased with himself as all of the critters around laugh at him
1:8 Camera angle slightly higher than eye level to be looking down on him
Proto starts shaking with anger, then realizes that it's not him shaking and looks around
1:9 Shot is above three critters at a 120 degree angle
The ground is shaking around a group of critters and a hole opens up causing one of them to fall in, only to go bursting out a second later.
1:10
The ground continues to shake and fissures start opening up everywhere, causing more birdy boiler incidents as well as panic.
1:11 Cose up of one of the cracks
Lava starts flowing out of the ground
1:12
Proto and present company looks scared and start making a run for it, avoiding newly opening fissures and streams of lava, they make it to the shore and turn around
1:13 Shot of entire island
you can see the whole island rummbling violently, then suddenly sinking, causing a big wave and lots of little critters floating in the water.

2 comments:

  1. Very cool, would definitely watch it.
    Possily establish the girl critter early on though, maybe just a simple flirty glance as his head pops up (har har), something like that.
    Would consider mixing style, but that's probably inherent.
    Good stuff. :D

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  2. Oh, and by mixing I mean 3D and 2D :D

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