new script

I know that I was, at some point, going to go through the development of the final project and a bit of a dissertation update but for the time being I think I need to go through the rather drastic changes that have taken place to the script of the final project.

So we had the original storey, which was basically the Pied Piper storey, both Derrick and Andy suggested that I put a twist in it to make it a bit less predictable. I tried to do this by just making the piper character a bumbling fool and keeping the same storey, except that everything that could go wrong would. Although a bit more entertaining this version of the storey was still way to predictable and in my opinion still too close to the original Pied Piper Storey. So I took it away again and twisted the hell out.

What I created is pretty much the storey I am now running with. The piper is still a bumbling fool but now the creatures get a hold of her flute, control her and then she dies of a heart attack – good wholesome family fun. It is a bit like my OSTN idea (dancing etc.) but at least it is my idea. There are still a couple of issues: I need to establish that the piper character is attempting to be the pied piper – probably by giving her some kind of book which she keeps referring too. I also need to develop the chain of events that lead to the piper throwing away the flute which leads to the creatures getting hold of it as it all happened a bit suddenly.

So my next job is to re-do the storyboard, most of which can hopefully be salvaged from the old one but we shall see. I am going to try and but a bit more emphasis on continuing action from shot to shot though – just to make it flow better.

A little bit more

Back again! Time to try and a bit of explanation to my earlier post, which was written in the midst of riding the cusp of the creative wave, as it where. I’m a bit more calmed down now, sort of.
Basically I’ve had a bit of a rethink of the script and come to the conclusion that it was a bit up itself so I’ve gone completely the other with it now and tried to poke a bit of fun and generally make it as silly and unserious as possible.
Originally both Andy and Derek had suggested that I look at different ways of playing out the story (eg: having Leurre seem harmless and then turning on the creatures) because it was too predictable but I got the feeling that neither where too hot on the main story. Derek suggested that I look at The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Jiri Barta, I think its safe to say that I am now a firm fan, I especially like The Club of the Laid Off, it very much appeals to my sense of humour and the clumpy looking animation is also quite amusing.





However, this did little to boost my confidence, until I woke up this morning with a rare can-do attitude to life and had a good old brain ‘shower’ session and now have something I shall try to mould into a script.

Bring on the sillyness!

Stop press! Oh dear god what has been going on in my head over the summer – churning out this pretentious crap. Getting Derek to look at my script yesterday is quite possibly the best thing I’ve done on this project and certainly saved it from going arse over tit.

I had completely lost my way and it is about time I get back to doing what I do best; complete and utter silliness. Which can only be achieved by an all out assault on common sense! So I’m going to tootle off now and cram this sorry story line with as much random stuff as my mind can muster!