//I'll definetly revise this. I think i need to have something down.
My story is part of a daydream I've been having since 11th grade of an animation film about a boy in his junior/senior year in highschool with a pessimistic attitude about the future after graduation. The story revolves around this boy and his close friends who are intelligent enough to be in the moment but not smart enough to recognize it. They can't seem to understand why something needs to be recognized and therefore do not have much value for anything.
My Story
While this story is much bigger than 2 minutes can convey, a small slice of it is something i would be much happier doing than just a short demonstrating my newfound ability to animate.
My story starts with the boy walking home. He passes his old school, PS6, and maintains his pace as the children look upon him like animals behind cages. As he approaches the end of the block his hands retreat into his pockets. He feels he is onto something. He looks up at the the clouds beautifully billow about a sky that looks all too impersonal for him. He doesn't seem to quite get it yet and keeps walking.
That is a "down" scene characterized by his being alone and in a paralyzed state of contemplation. His thoughts handicap him from being in any sort of moment, so life passes him while his headphones blast violent lyrics about really living.
Immediately following his calm walk through desolation and his abrupt but ultimately uneventful burst of something about the clouds is another scene, an "up". This scene is characterized by a whole-hearted understanding of the moment through small subtle revelations. I haven't yet finalized this part of the scene, but I worked out most of this with Andy and Anand today.
Andy's story
Andy is pushing more content from his Lost Boy universe, a comic that he has made about a boy who loses his heart and is on a path to retrieve it.
The short, as Andy describes it, is supposed to be more of a demonstration of animation than a plotline based story. The story focuses on animation dynamics that he will learn from Anime like FLCL, honing his animation skills through heavily action oriented animation.
The story itself starts with a boy smoking while looking at a picture. He then either loses consciousness or enters his own consciousness, a white world with one giant picture frame that cycles through images of his past. The last image to be shown is of him looking at the image he was just looking at. Startled, he tries to run away and finds a puddle of blood. Intrigued he stares as a female figure oozes out of it. Suddenly she pierces his chest and he begins to realize what he's running from. This begins the erratic transformation of him into Lost Boy and the short ends.
Anand's Story
Anand is the most versed in film knowledge, so his stories will be much more solid than ours.
His starts with a train whistle in pitch black until the scene starts of two guys playing racketball. During the game one of the guys begins to tell a story and it flashes back to a girl crying and him being upset. He breaks up with her, gets on the train and leaves all while the girls is portrayed as very emotional until the end, where she is shown fully and just standing as the train passes by.
The story ends and the other guy decides to start jogging. The first guy is lying on the floor and starts laughing because he made it seem like it was her fault that they broke up. The footsteps of the other guy jogging got slowly closer to him as he started to whistle like a train. They both start laughing and the short ends.
So far Anand wants to animate this with lots of scribbles or scribbled animation. It will be cluttered and rough except for when there are close-ups of the characters. The short also will be intentionally dark like a faint memory because it is supposed to be a random short glimpse into this other life.
Andy suggested that it be rotoscoped and Anand may go in that direction or combine both.
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