Week 2

January 19 – 25

This week, I experimented with more finalized visuals, focusing on colour and overall mood for the film.

I also took time developing the Hare’s backstory, even though I do not plan for this to be in the film. This has helped me understand the Hare’s conditions and visuals.

The Hare finds an alien goo-like substance on a train track. When it inspects the entity, the goo latches onto the Hare’s face and forces its way into the Hare’s mouth. The goo acts as a sort of parasite, corrupting and eating away at its host. The goo hopes to find more natural material to infect by killing and accelerating the Hare’s decay.

I am still developing the visuals for the gardener’s house. I’ve detailed a floorplans and different angles of the house so that it is easier to make consistent in the background. I would like to make a more detailed rendering of all angles of the house that will be needed for the different shots.

MAIN CHARACTER	The protagonist.	The gardener.
SECOND CHARACTER	Usually, the antagonist.	An unnatural parasite that infects the hare. This parasite represents a human’s unrelenting greed and corruption, an ugly desire that destroys everything in its path.
PROBLEM	The issue the main character confronts.	The gardener discovered a dead hare in her garden.
FORCES	Obstacles or conditions that the main character should overcome to reach their target.	The disease that has infected the hare seeps into the garden’s soil, affecting the life around it.
OBJECTIVE/TARGET	The Character’s goal.	The gardener wants to care for her garden.
WANT	The character’s wish or desire.	She wishes for a peaceful life. The gardener has carved out a solitary life, just her and her garden. She cares for her plants and aids the lives of many critters.
NEED	What the character requires on a deeper level (the lesson they need to learn).	Though no fault of the gardener, the hare has become enveloped by this parasitic goop that wishes to infect all it can. The gardener has made it her sole purpose to support life through her garden, only for it to be ripped away by another’s carelessness and greed.
OTHER CHARACTERS	List of all characters involved in the story.	The hare.
SETTING	Where it happens.	The Gardener’s house. She lives in a fairly rural area surrounded by forest and plenty of wildlife.
PEROID	The time in history it happens.	Present day.
TIMESPAN	The duration of the events that make up the story.	1 day.
TRAJECTORY	The path along which the character will travel.	The gardener deals with and mourns the loss of life. Even if not personally connected to the lives, all life is incredibly sacred to the gardener.
MAIN THEME	The core concept of the story.	The spread of rot and ease of destruction.
THESIS	The message of the story. The moral.	The horrors of being the victim of someone else’s poor judgment.
OTHER THEMES	List of all themes in the story.	Cause and effect, the spread and consequences of greed, selfishness and carelessness towards one’s surroundings, the unrelenting spread of rot and decay.
PLOT	The cause-and-effect Storyline.	An infected hare causes the death of a garden, and quickly all the life that surrounds it.
STRUCTURE	The type of formula used for the development of the plot.	Set up a confrontation. Resolution unknown / for interpretation.
LOGLINE	A one or two sentence description of your story.	A gardener discovers a diseased hare in their garden whose death is a mystery and seemingly entirely unnatural. The gardener removes the creature, but not before the rot has spread
GENRE	Under which stylistic category this story falls.	Horror – a mix of pretty visuals and unsettling action. Jarring and weird.
TARGET AUDIENCE	Who are you telling this story to?	Teens / young adults. Enjoyers of horror.
POINT OF VIEW	Who is narrating this story?	From the gardener’s perspective.