Scripting and other stuff.

So I finished the script. It turned out pretty fun and it has the feeling that I was going for. I went with the first idea of the struggling art student having hallucinations from lack of sleep. In the end I didn't bother trying to script the other one since I had a clearer picture of this one in my head.

So here it is.

INT. HIGHSCHOOL ART ROOM - 5:30pm 

DAVID is sitting alone in the room, frantically working on a painting. He looks tired and is shaking a little as he paints. There are empty energy drink cans lying around him.

His eyes flick nervously between his painting and a clock that reads 5:30pm. On his desk is an assessment outline that reads “Due on Friday 6:00pm.”

As he goes to rub his eyes he hears a small, slightly high pitched voice.

VOICE

Haha! Wow, you sure got yourself in a bind
this time.

David looks down at his desk and sees a small purple creature that looks like something out of a kids cartoon. It opens its mouth to speak again.

CREATURE

          I mean I’ve seen procrastination before
          but this is on a whole other level!
          Cramming half a year of work into 3
          sleepless days? I’m impressed.

We see David sitting alone at his desk staring wide eyed at a patch of empty space.

DAVID
(In a shaky sleep deprived voice)

          Wh-wh-who are you?

CREATURE

Well I’m your creativity of course! Here
to help you out!

DAVID
(Clearly delirious)

          Oh cool. But hey man don’t worry
          about it this is my last painting so I
          think I can finish on time

CREATURE

          Nonsense!

The creature takes a bottle of paint and spills it over the painting. David looks shocked.

CREATURE
(Voice slowly losing friendly high pitch, sounding more like an angry man)

          I’m here to help you out man! What
          don’t you want my help? Think you’re
          too good for me or something? I’m
          your freaking creativity man where
          would you be without me? YOU’D BE
          NOTHING!

DAVID
(Talking to thin air)

          Hey man it’s cool I was just kidding.
          I need your help, of course I need
          your help.

CREATURE
(Starting to look slightly insane)

          YEA YOU DO! This work is all stale!
          You think anyone’s gonna remember you
          for this?

          NO!

          We need to spice things up!

The creature starts looking around. David is looking more concerned now.

CREATURE

          AH HERE WE GO!

The creature shoots a magical spark at a desk lamp which suddenly springs to life.

  

CREATURE

          This’ll be just like that Pixar thingy!
          He can help us out!

The lamp starts looking around, then begins to scream and goes into a frenzy, jumping around the table, knocking over paints and stamping on pastels.

David starts to make a worried low scream that begins to rise.

CREATURE
(Shouting over noise)

          WHAT YOU DON’T LIKE THE WAY I HELP??
          YOU UNGREATFUL LITTLE…

The creature starts screaming and jumps onto David. David thrashes around as the creature attacks him and the lamp jumps around on the table.

From a distance we see David screaming as he smashes a lamp against his desk like a madman. He picks up tubes of paint and squirts them around.

The screaming gets louder until his eyes roll back and he passes out in his chair.

INT. HIGHSCHOOL ART ROOM – 6:00pm

An art teacher walks into the room and sees David passed out at his desk with mess all around him. He picks up the painting from David’s desk and sees mad splatterings of paint and frantically scrawled images of the creature.

He stares at it for a while and smiles

ART TEACHER

          I LOVE IT!!

That's what I came up with. I was going for a sort of dark random humor that I tend to enjoy. 

In the finish our group didn't go with my idea. I was happy to go with any of the other scripts, and we ended up choosing Oscars idea of a person's spirit leaving their body. My script was the only comedy idea in our group so I felt it didn't really fit with what everyone wanted to do. Oscar's script is one that everyone is happy with and has plenty of elements that each of us can work on. Also the relative simplicity of the story means that we can get the basics done first and spend our remaining time polishing and making all of the animation and environments look really nice.

I'm looking forward to working on it. I think it should be a lot of fun.