Tuesday 9 February 2010

Idea 2 - Treatment...

This is my second idea, which isn't fully finished and refined, but it was an idea Phil brought up in yesterday's Story Workshop, i feel it's definitely worth exploring because it has more of a twist in the ending the my first idea. However, for comedy values and good old slap stick comedy i still think i prefer my first idea. I've decided to play around with both for now and see what i come up with...

Act 1: In act 1 we establish a hatred for the villainous Butterfly Hunter...

I feel that if this idea is going to work well, the Butterfly needs to have the audience against him from the word go. I had the idea of a small, cute bug on a desk in a dark room filled with awards and newspaper articles showing the butterfly hunter's success. We see signs of anxst of the bug's face as he looks to escape, we then see the villainous butterfly hunter in his chair, pick the squarming bug up and as the camera continues to pan past them, we see him poke a pin through the bug, in a shadow on the wall. The light source could be from another room coming onto the wall from a slightly open doorway. Straight away this would make the audience want something to happen to the hunter...

Act 2: In act 2 we establish that the Butterfly hunter has a goal of finding more bugs...

Feel had the idea of a woodland area for this animation. If i was to go with that location, i feel it would only be right to make the Butterfly Hunter's home a cabin in the woodland. This makes sense because he likes to collects bugs, which can obviously be found in woodland areas. Anyway, he goes out hunting on his pogo-stick because he is quite a shot and old, excentric man. This scene will show him chasing bugs and capturing them with no mercy, they fear him. This will create a further hatred from the audience towards this character, who is a nasty pice of work. We see him go home, saidisticly happy with today's catch...

Act 3: In act 3 i want to provide a twist to the story, which is unexpected, but the audience will be cheering about...

Phil had the idea of creating giant bugs or butterflies which seek revenge on the butterfly huter, by either implying they would eat him as though it were a restaurant or ending with a shot that mimics the early shot of the butterfly hunter puting the pin into the bug, except this time the bugs have the pin. I quite like the idea of finishing up how i started, as though it comes back round to the beginning and that would end the story nicely, bringing it together neatly. My idea was to have the butterfly hunter back in his room again preparing to poke pins into the bugs, tormenting and teasing them in jars. I can imagine the camera being placed outside the window as though we were seeing something we weren't meant to and the camea pans to the the shadow on the wall where the giant butterflies get revenge with pins in their hand...

I like this idea and i can see it working nicely, i'm actually torn between both ideas now that i think about it, i think they both have their strengths, as well as weaknesses. If i go with the idea of matching the begining and end shots, i'm not too sure how the restaurant come into things though. This would be my major concern, although i do like the twist at the end, and i think there is a great opportunity for a lovely array of shot types, similar to my first idea...

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