I'm not completely sure what we are to write for our proposals but
here is goes.
My project is about a night of vampire hunting gone horrible wrong
and then just plain weird. The mood is to be suspenseful for the
first half then happyish towards the end with maybe some dramatic
moments to aid with the overly dramatic scenes that will be
happening.. It is a short that is really meant to be funny more than
anything and full of violence and odd events. The beginning has a n
overall more horror movie feel to it with a suspenseful chase scene
followed my a gruesome death and the later half is meant to be sort
of the opposite with odd characters starting to appear. These
characters lighten the mood only to have it almost ruined then saved
again. Sort of. To explain it a bit better for you, There is a
vampire begin chased by an unknown adversary through a dark and misty
graveyard. Once this vampire feels that he might be safe from his
pursuer she strikes and after an overly dramatic death the vampire is
left to rot on the ground. The slayer that killed him then leaves the
scene only to see something that is completely incomprehensible to
her. A woman dancing around in the middle of a graveyard where more
of the blood suckers could be lurking. This strange woman comes to
greet her and after a very short conversation thy are interrupted by
an unfortunate turn of events that ruins the lightening mood. The
slayer is slain and our poor dancer doesn't know what to do. But just
as all seems lost and as the returned vampire goes to make it's move
a great misfortune befalls our not so dead vampire and in the process
saves the woman from certain doom. The woman overjoyed by the
appearance of her savior rushes to thank him and then to celebrate
proposes that they dance into the night. Which of course in this
story can not be without some unexpected thing turning things upside
down all over again.
As for my progress so far I have the first scene lined colored and
finished except for the sound effects. I have six other scenes
roughed out and once the others have also been roughly animated and
all tested together to make sure everything is well done I will be
ready to go in to line and color them as well. There are twenty four
scenes that need to be animated and eight backgrounds that need to me
made for this piece. one background is fully finished and two others
are halfway done while the others are only drawn out and not yet
colored.
The music that I had in mind for this piece was some simple
suspenseful music to help convey the mood of being chased, then
calming down once things seem to be safe and then having a dramatic
point when the vampire is slain. Followed by a calmness then
something a bit happier but not quite right for the introduction of
the odd events that follow the vampire's "death". I was
thinking it would be an odd sort of tense happiness in the second
half but I am not sure how to pull that off at this point in time.
I would like to work with a musician so that I can add that extra
level to my short that I feel it still needs. The music would be able
to help with the mood that I am trying to convey throughout the
short. I would hope that it would also help to make the piece more
entertaining for the viewer as well. I thought of maybe trying to use
one of the free sights to create something on my own but i fear that
I am to musically challenged to be able to pull off what i am trying
to achieve and would greatly appreciate the help of someone who
really knows what they are doing and are up for the challenge.
The script is really rather short as there is only one scene where any talking is done.
This is the scene with the slayer and the radom woman talking after the death of the vampire.
Woman: hello.
Slayer: What the hell are you doing here! Don't you have any idea how dangerous it is!
Woman: I was dancing. Do you wish to join me?
Slayer: ......Are you completely stupid!
Woman: ummm.....behind you.
Slayer: what?
Then the slayer dies and that's really all that is said the rest of the story is told through the character acting and sound effects.
And this is the animatic.
