Script

Scene 1-EXT
A bird's eye veiw of a suburbian housing area. Slow zoom in to a house.

Scene 2 - INT
KITTY is laying on a carpet in the front room, basking in the beams from the afternoon sun.

GIRL (offscreen)
Here kitty, kitty! Where are you?

Kitty starts, suddenly very worried with an "Oh Shit" look.

Girl (offscreen)
There you are!

Scene cuts to black.


Scene 3A - INT
Fade in to see Kitty with a huge bow tied to her neck. She is staring toward the camera, annoyed.

Girl (offscreen - fades in intervals)
Aren't you pretty! (quieter) Now wait right there, (quieter) I'll be right back with an even better surprise!

Kitty waits a second or two, glaring in the direction of the leaving girl, then looks around quickly. Upon finding the coast is clear, Kitty tries to make a run for it but trips on the bow and falls to the ground. She gets back up, trying to stare at the bow, obviously annoyed.

Scene 3B -INT
Kitty carefully walks to the fireplace and rubs against the bricks in an attempt to get the bow off. It doesn't work.

Scene 3C -INT
Kitty then tries to pry the bow off with the rocking chair. The bow catches and the chair rocks back as Kitty starts choking. As the chair rocks forward it throws Kitty, allowing Kitty to breathe.

Scene 3D - INT
Kitty tries her luck rubbing against the flower pot in the corner. She knocks it off balance, and it falls on her with a crash. Scene fades out.


Scene 4- INT
Fade in to Kitty sitting on the middle rug and cleaning off the last of the dirt from her hind paw. As she straightens the bow brushes against the paw, and she gets a look of "AHA!". She then pries her front right paw into the collar bow in an attempt to force it off, but only manages to temporarily stretch her neck. In trying to pull it out, Kitty find the paw is now stuck. She uses her right hind paw to try to free it and only manages to catch that one as well, causing her to fall to her side. She wrestles with the bow using the other two free paws, getting each one caught in a tangle that causes her to lose balance. She rolls offscreen and a crash is heard. Fade to black.

Scene 5- INT
Fade in to a child's drawing of a girl getting something tight off by getting it wet, then a child's image of Kitty getting the bow off with water. Wipe to Kitty carefully holding her neck over a water bowl that has been dragged into the room. She is trying to use a front paw to get it wet without getting herself wet. She loses balance, though, and falls straight onto the water bowl, causing it to flip into the air with a crash. Water splashes everywhere in front of the camera. When it clears we see Kitty from the neck up, soaking. As Kitty glares, annoyed, the bow starts obviously shrinking. Kitty's eyes go wide and while glancing down at the bow she starts turning blue in the face. Kitty then collapses down and offscreen. Fade to black.

Scene 6 - INT
Fade in to see Kitty beside a vacuum, lining up her bow and checking the loose cord to see if it's plugged in. She hits the on button, and the bow is sucked up, fastening Kitty to the vacuum as it begins to race around the room randomly. Kity is thrown against the bricks, chair, and plant before the vacuum races offscreen, taking Kitty with it. Cut to black: a crash is heard.

Scene 7 - INT
Fade in to see Kitty flopped on the carpet, frazzled and panting. She sighs, getting up. A paw sits on the tail end of the bow, and as Kitty stands the bow is pulled loose. It falls to the ground. Kitty freezes, slowly looks down at the ribbon, then looks up, grinning. She takes a step to leave.

Girl (offscreen, fading in with footsteps)
Here Kitty Kitty!

Kitty freezes with a "Not again!"look.

Girl (offscreen)
I found your surprise, look!

Kitty looks back at the bow, reluctant to see. She turns and looks toward the Girl. Her eyes grow wide.

Scene 8 - EXT
Overhead of house roof. Quick zoom out.

Kitty
MEEEEEEEEEEEEWRRRRRRRR!

Fade to black.


Credits
Kitty walks in around credits (not to be covered). She is wearing a dress.

Story Revision

Kitty is laying on a carpet in the front room, basking in the beams from the afternoon sun. A girl's voice calls, and Kitty starts, suddenly very worried with an "Oh Shit" look. It blacks.

Fade back in with Kitty sitting on the same rug, a humongous bow tied to her neck. She is less than pleased, to say the least. The girl's voice tells Kitty to stay right there for the rest of the surprise as it fades, indicating the girl has wandered off (perhaps with the help of footsteps).

From here is a series of things Kitty does to get the bow off, not necessarily in a linear fashion. Each instance doesn't show how she gets out of her previous predicament, just that she is out of it.

he initially tries rubbing it off, first on the fireplace bricks - does nothing - then on the rocking chair. She catches the bow and almost chokes, but backs out of it. Finally, she tried rubbing against the large pot for the potted plant. It falls on her.

She's finally out from under that heavy pot and plant, and now tries for the prying off approach. She gets a paw into the collar section, and tried to push it off. She instead only manages to get it caught. In her struggle to get out of her entanglement, her other paws become tangled, and she eventually rolls offscreen and with a crash the scene blackens.

Plan #3 is shown in simple, child-like drawings. It essentially shows that the little girl owner got something tight off by wetting the area down and slipping it off, so the bow should do the same thing. Cut to Kitty, carefully trying to get the collar wet with her water bowl. She loses balance due to the huge bow, and falls onto the bowl, overturning it and soaking herself and the bow. As she stands and shakes herself off, she finds the collar is tightening (shrinking). She eventually has trouble breathing and flops to the floor off camera.

The final plan: open to Kitty lining up herself beside a stand up vacuum cleaner. She turns it on, figuring the vacuum will suck the bow right off, but instead it takes off around the room, with her flying behind it. She is knocked against multiple things before yet again flying off camera and the scene closing with a crash.

Kitty is flopped on the carpet, defeated. She's panting, frazzled, and still has this huge bow around her neck. With a sigh she gets up, one of her paws unintentionally on the end of fabric. As she stands it catches, loosening the bow. With a flop it falls off. She stares at it, dumbfounded, then around the room, with a smile slowly growing on her face. As she takes a step to leave, the girl's voice calls again. Kitty freezes in an even bigger "oh shit," and it ends.

During credits Kitty will wander onscreen with the rest of the surprise, again less than thrilled.

Picking up where I left off

So, I've been in a creativity cemetery lately: meaning it's been rather dead. I'm hoping to do better than that, and this post will be to organize (or at least, list) random thoughts and ideas in hopes of getting back on track.

Possible endings:

Kitty gets ribbon caught, trying to walk away pulls it off.
Kitty accidentally scratches it off.
Kitty gets ribbon off, but only in time for girl to come back (credits show kitty with bell).


Random ideas:
The bow takes on some personification or possibly even intelligence in ways of flopping, maybe in wind.
Girl's toys get tangled up too.
Cat's toys get tangled up too.
Tries to get bow off with rocking chair: launches to other side of room.
Tries to use fireplace brick edges to rub off.
Hind leg gets stuck; other hind leg, then front legs. Knot, rolls into something.
Rolls under couch.


These ideas have no originality. Damnit.

In progress

This post not finished: being used for archival purposes.



Little Girl: Background voice

Cat: Main Character (Protaganist?)

Bow: hidden main character (Antagonist?)


Problem: can't get bow off - need to get bow off before little girl returns to be able to run away

1. Cat is sitting on rug, little girl's voice dalls and cat scrambles to feet.

2. Cut to cat sitting on rug with HUGE bow on its neck: annoyed/resigned look on face.

3. Girl's voice trails off with mention to stay right there for the bell: cat panicks at mention of bell and tries to run, tripping on bow.

4. Tumbles and stays that way, thinking, tapping claws: eyes wander, land on

Colored Character- up and running!

Again, since I can't figure out how to put actual images into these things, here's a link!


Character in color.

Story and Research

Concept: Cat can't get a bow off.

1. Little girl catches cat in the house.

2. Little girl takes off collar and ties bow on cat's neck.

3. Little girl is called away by mom, cat left there.

4. Cat tries walking, trips on bow ends.

5. Cat tries to get bow off with front paws, back paws, all four paws, but can't get it off.

6. Cat struggles to use a rocking chair end to pry it off, finally rips off (unties?) after much work.

7. Little girl comes back to find kitty, holding a jingly bell to put on it.



Research!

(I have no idea how you guys keep getting the images to show up on the post, so I'm likning them.)

Cats

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/6073/babycat6qs.jpg

http://www.esiee.fr/~faresc/Data/cat1.jpg

http://www.infovisual.info/02/img_en/065%20Morphology%20of%20a%20cat.jpg


Bows

http://www.communitymx.com/content/source/475D4/bow.gif

http://www.bowsandbands.com/bow%20holders/Light%20Pink%20&%20White%20Bow%20Holder.jpg


Scenery

http://www.thefurniture.com/store/Images/frmt/317/LivingRoom-Set.gif

http://www.mountaincomfortfrisco.com/images/living_room.jpg

http://www.geo.ua.edu/AMG/WF/images/Main%20Living%20Room.jpg

Character pretty much down... now story.....

(Image of my character for reference if needed.)

Well,
I've pretty much figured out the main gist of the character's
personality now. The problem is, I have difficulty pairing her with the
story idea I had (Not like it was all that great to begin with). I want
to come up with a relatively new idea.

So, my dilemma right now is that I'm at a lack of good conflicts for her at the moment. Here are
some of the possible conflicts that I've thought of, but so many of
them seem so petty and obvious.

1. She struggles to get her bow off.


2. She is trying to get outside to get a bird (or other animal) that's
   making fun of the fact she's wearing a bow.


3. The bell is in the way of catching a mouse because it can hear her.

Really, at the moment, that's most of what I can remember from sitting in
classes. (*shrugs* It's when I come up with a lot of my stuff: if I'm
busy with something else.) I have noticed I'm focusing a lot on the
bow. You'd think realizing that would help me move away from the bow,
but any ideas I get continue to rely heavily on the bow/bell. For
instance, if the thing was too big to allow normal movement, got in the
way of eating and using thelitterbox? What else could it get in the way of? How could this make a good story at all?! Grah.

Perhaps I'm just over analyzing it too much. I just get so tired of seeing my mind come up with stuff that don't feel like their at a high enough caliber to even be
mentioned in an art school. I have my section of things I enjoy coming
up with and section of things I come up with for art class and trying
to intertwine them normally results in me feelingnothing's good enough.

By the way, I apologise for anyone actually bothering to read this. It isn't as much of an assignment to read and comment on than a rant on style conflicts to read and
provide opinions on. Please, if anyone has anything for input on any of
this, I'd really love see it commented. Thanks.

Due Wed 5

Animation

Concept: Cats can't fly.

Seven sentences:

1. Cat climbs up a tree.

2. Cat gets near top branches, they start swaying in wind.

3. Cat almost falls, and scrapes its way back to sturdy branches.

4. Cat studies weak branches, grabs one.

5. Branch is pulled back to sling the cat into air.

6. Cat flies through the air, dreaming
it's chasing after a bird by flying with wings.

7. Cat lands right in front of a dog house.


Mind Map:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa209/wildkat137/kakosey_mindmap.jpg?t=1189027983

There is no color for the mind map because there is a lack of colored pencils in my posession at the moment.