Unit 04- Initial Story Ideas

I have come up with some ideas for my story, even though they are not perfect they can be polished, and I believe I will take if not a good final, at least a bit of advice.

After Phil pointing me Farrelly Brothers type of comedy, such like There's Something about Mary or Dumb and Dumber, it made even more sense the type of comedy I wanted to achieve.


1st Initial Idea:
Genre: Comedy
Character Vs. Technology

It starts with a vain and masculine Lumberjack, who had put a few pounds on, deciding to break this barrier between him and technology, and nervously visits a Beauty Parlour, seeking for a Colonic Irrigation treatment. As he arrives, he is attended and given a paper to sign explaining the procedures of the same treatment, to after realise how it is done.
While the Lumberjack nervously tries to avoid the treatment and wants to left, a living Colonic Irrigation Machine (hose pipe) focus on the Lumberjack pursuing him to give his session.
When he realises he tries effortlessly to escape, just to realise he is in "enemy" territory, where the Beauty Parlour is compared to a mine camp, as he ventures in to make his way to the door, he trips and stumbles on the objects and cosmetics inside the shop, giving him an almost extreme makeover.
Ultimately, he trips on the sneaky Hose pipe from the Colonic Irrigation machine, which is more than happy to do its job.
Finally, A treatment session later, the Lumberjack leaves the beauty parlour, uncomfortable and with little less of masculinity, wanting never to come back.


Although this is not a definite story at all, I can see some potential in it and makes it my preferred, though it needs a bit of retouching and editing, who I am hoping to get on our Story workshops or maybe earlier.
For this Animation, I was thinking of having a stylized character which would resemble a cartoon to add this extra hint of fun to it.
Having a the Farrelly brothers comedy style in mind, I am hoping to create a really funny animation, maybe something silly out of Me, Myself and Irene.


2nd Initial Idea:
Genre: Musical comedy

This young Lumberjack arrives to the beauty parlour aiming to start his career as a beautician, as he enters he realizes that the Shop is owned by crazy Lumberjacks, who trimmer and stylize trees for a living. as he is introduced they start to sing a song made by them, explaining who they, what they do, why they do it, exhibiting the tools and different hairstyles, like something out of Polar Express, with the Hot Chocolate scene. the whole music leads the shop to this feeling of happiness as well as craziness, with water hose pipes from the backwash machine spraying water, trees dancing and Joyful Lumberjacks.

Some Musical scenes related to my idea to better visualize :


Polar Express




Shrek



Beauty & The Beast




3rd Initial Idea
Genre: Action, Comedy
Character vs. Technology, with ticking clock

A lumber jack is working by a forest setting which surrounds this whole village, by the end of the village is this beauty parlour where people have being experienced strange happenings, while the lumberjack is working he hears a scream coming from the beauty parlour, as he sneaks in to see whats happenings, he is faced with a supernatural phenomenon, all the objects are alive, as he keeps hearing the scream, he realises a young woman, who is a beautician in the shop is beeing hold by this Colonic Irrigation Machine as being the primary enemy, as the hose pipe of the machine is strangling the young woman, our lumberjack, plays his superhero role alongside with his masculinity role and attempts to save the woman, before the machine can strangle her to death.
Throughout some challenges set by the environment of a beauty shop which is opposite of the lumberjack nature, he finally arrives next to her and with his axe cut the machine hosepipe and frees the poor woman, who is gratefully thankful for what the lumberjack did.
As the machine is cut, no more supernatural occurings happen, arguing that was all the machine's fault. for them maybe to start something together. and our lumberjack being the hero for the day.


This idea is pretty rough, if I take it further, I will have to do some editing, for example as it starts too slow for 1 minute animation, also accentuate the ticking clock happening as being quite chaotic and dangerous and for the end reserve something out of a happily ever after book.

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