Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Story splines

These are kind of random and I'm not really experienced with creative writing but perhaps these can start some ideas.

Perhaps we can have a story about this suburban dad who is upkeeping his garden around his house but an evil raccoon is determined to destroy it. The raccoon thinks that this land is his but the dad will protect his sacred garden at all costs. The dad in the end wins as he tricks the raccoon and gives him a drugged hotdog and then calls animal control to take him away.

Susy the camper/hiker went on a trail alone and gets lost along the way. However, she runs into a pack of wolves and realizes that she can understand them. She stays with the pack and tries to survive with them until she can find her trail back home.

The grey alien Merck arrives to Earth and is puzzled by how humans make cakes. He arrives to a house in a suburb and watches the housewife Jane make a cake. After he is spotted, Jane attacks him with all the kitchenware and they have a food fight in the kitchen until Jane scares off Merck with colored sprinkles.

The dog Fifo is hypnotized accidently by his magician master and thinks that he's a squirrel. He runs away from home to the park and tries to climb trees and eat nuts like a squirrel. He has lots of issues as he scares other squirrels away and breaks a lot of tree limbs. He finally snaps out of it when his master takes him out of the trance and takes him home.

The boy Jack went fishing for the first time on a normal sunny day in a lake but suddenly he catches an strange watch that allows him to time travel. After accidently pressing a button he is stuck with strange and scary medieval peasants until he can figure out how to go back to his own time.

2 comments:

  1. Well, personally I like the hiker and the wolves, but maybe that's just because I have a thing for wolves. :) It could be interesting to show Suzy pouncing on mice and some of the other things wolves do. I'm not entirely sure how to end the story though. Just getting back home doesn't seem like quite enough of an ending. Maybe have her discovered by other people, or else turn into a wolf herself?

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  2. The dad and the raccoon story really intrigues me for two reasons: First of all there is a real conflict between the two characters, and this could be super fun to animate. And second of all, the way it ends (drugged hot dog, animal control) is hilarious and it would be awesome if the whole end sequence was really fast paced (the raccoon eating it and passing out, the dad on the phone, and the raccoon being hauled off all in like 10 seconds hahaha). I also see an intense knife fight sequence between the dad and the raccoon, in which the dad destroys his garden in attempts to hit the raccoon with kitchen knives.

    What I'm trying to say is that I think there is a lot we could do with this.

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