Monday, October 29, 2007

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.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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.