Monday 31 March 2014

Space Girl 3000 - Scripting

Now that I had a basic plot, I had to turn it into a script. I was talking to Ged Haney alot about this, and he informed me to write it as quickly as I could, then he'd be able to help me. And so, I created my first draft of the script;


I showed it to Ged and he suggested that I should give the secondary character more screen time since he is a vital character (The man with the other briefcase). This was when I decided to have 2 parallel stories, one with the protagonist and another with the secondary character, this led me to write up the second draft to my script;


After much debating, we decided to scrap the 2 parallel storylines and stick to only one, however we'd change things up abit. Now instead of a secondary character like the protagonist, we'd have a secondary character like the antagonist, another villain. I then rewrote the script into what would be the final script;


Or so I thought, I was informed to keep working on the script until I had a set idea, so I decided to make some minor changes. This script kept almost all of the elements of the previous draft, however some locations and settings had been altered to give it a more real feel. And so I finished up the forth draft to my script;


After finally deciding on everything that would happen, I decided to do a final script, in which it is layed out perfectly for both me and my sound designer. There wasn't many changes to the script in this version, but I did lay it out much nicer. This resulted in my final script;


Now that I had a final script, I decided to work on the concept art and find a sound designer.

Tuesday 25 March 2014

Space Girl 3000 - Plot development

Space Girl 3000 began it's life as an idea of a female protagonist in the future doing something. I had drawn a character that I liked, but didn't know what I wanted her to be doing. All I knew is that I wanted to create a silent animation using her, showing off beautiful backgrounds and fluid animation.

I thought of a nice plot, in which a girl heads to a planet in her ship, lands and then delivers something to someone. I didn't know what yet, but I know I wanted it to become a deal gone wrong and ends up turning into a massive chase. However, I then decided the deal gone wrong and wanted to go with her delivering something delicate. I decided this because I could play around with her having to be careful with a box or briefcase when everything is trying to get in her way. The idea was similar to an animation series "There She Is" in which during an episode the protagonist has to deliver a cake, the outcome would be similar, below is the animation;


After thinking long and hard about how I wanted it to play out, I decided to go back to the deal gone wrong, and with the help of Ged Haney I was able to write a script!