Thursday, September 11, 2014

Assignment 4: Story assignment

I know this is a bit rough, but I didn't know how to extend it out without getting it too muddled in unnecessary word count. It's just straight to the point. And since the animation is supposed to be short, I figured I'd keep it short.

     All was peaceful on the lone planet. One of its inhabitants was wandering the deserts in search for water. Then, a rocket came crashing down, skidding to a stop, padded by the sands. It's thrusters smoked, the hull battered and bruised. A lone spaceman stumbled out, dazed from the impact.
     Climbing over his ship, he slipped and fell onto the ground. He slowly lifted himself up from the ground, lazily taking in the landscape. Looking at his ship, his body seemed to slump. Then, the creature caught his attention. It was walking upright, so it must be intelligent, right?
     Walking over to the creature, he begun explaining animatedly about his situation. 
     *hands together at his face, indicating sleep. (he was asleep in cryostasis)
     *hand level with the ground, his ship. (ship flying along on autopilot)
     *Fist coming in to impact, the meteor. (meteor come in and hits the top of his ship)
     *Ship diving down (the meteor had changed the ship's course)
     *arms swing out for impact. (ship impacts onto the planet)
     *Hands together, asking for help.
     In his frantic gesturing, he did not notice the creature slowly cringing back. When he finally noticed, he stopped, thinking for a moment. He pulls out a small handheld device, scanning the creature. On it showed the image of a brain, a bright red Ø flashing on top. His face fell again. All of his attempts asking for help were for nothing!
     He resigned to walk back to his ship, hoping the ship's communicator and oxygen compressors were not busted. It was going to take a while to fix his ship.

I'll add stuff it needs more substance for the animation.

1 comment:

  1. I like the concept of your story, and I think it would be really amusing if you really pushed his frantic pleas for help from the other alien. I think the cryostats bit (about indicating sleep) should be taken out though, it may just confuse viewers--most people probably won't think of cryostasis when he's indicating sleep, it may just look as if he wants sleep, which doesn't help build the story. I feel like this has a lot of potential, but there is no climax and there is no solution--I think it might be fun if you played with the alien's character a bit more and have him mess with the spaceman or interact with him in some way besides being scared of him. Good start, I would like to see where you go with this!

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