............ A Cue to Dance, By Kimpey ............: Proposal

I started out with the idea of two characters meeting in this carnival and being separated. Over time I fleshed out the characters in the story, but I felt like I had lost some of the ideas around the carnival and it became more about the chase. At first I added two more characters to deter the main characters from each other, but over time one was dropped and the use of confusion and a loss of identity in the carnival to replace one of the deterrents. So now I believe I’ve come to a point where my story is strong, but I really need to make the visual work or the confusion a manicness of the carnivals will not read.

Characters:

Lips: the beautiful female always wanting to be noticed, but goes about it in the wrong way. She knows she has beauty and uses it, but she is very free going and gets lost in it all very easily.

Gaze: the impulsive male character. He wants a bit of everything, but from getting what he wants a lot lost his values and once he obtains anything he grows board. Even though he is detached he is till a hopeless romantic, holding out for love.

Tat: Tat is a cereal carnival goer and has little to no values from life in the mad unrestrained carnival. A lustful man that takes everything he wants never feeling bad for his actions.

Karl Impey Proposal for 3^rd Year Animation Final Film:

A Que to Dance

Philosophy: carnival romantic story aimed at festivals and showcase viewers.

Synopsis

In a bazaar masked carnival taking place in a well lit European street at night, two masked people meet and begin to fall in love, but in a dance of mishaps and excitement are separated and struggle to meet again in hopes of love.

v The male Gaze arrives at the carnival he comes across many women, but when they come on to him and let him do as he please he becomes uninterested. At the same time through the crowd of manic partying the female character Lips surrounded by masked people rips of her extravagant dress, as she performs a sexy dance, they slowly lustfully close in around her led by Tat a masked man infatuated by her.

v Gaze board and irritated by it all and Lips leading the men on a bit too far, push free of their crowds and run to the square. They cross paths and lights flick on them and they strike a pose together and start dancing, also showed they are in a large group of masked dancers. Lips is interested and sexually dances, but when Gaze tries to get intimate she pushes him away, but Gaze enjoys the challenge.

v Tat looks on from the side of the strange and bazaar dancing group. The crowd suddenly shuffles and they lose sight of one another. Gaze can’t tell Lips out of the crowd of masked people and Lips is intoxicated by the madness of the carnival.

v Tat takes this chance to snatch the dazed Lips and take her to the roof. He starts forcing himself on her as she is dazed and confused. Gaze franticly searches for her, failing to find her falls to his knees in despair, Lips comes to her senses and escapes from Tat. Gaze spots them on the rooftops and pursues.

v Tat violently grabs at Lips she is cornered at roofs end and jumps to a flag wire. Tat tries to snatch her but the roof tiles give way and he falls, the flag wire is weakened and snaps. Suddenly Gaze jumps and saves her swinging to safety on the flag wire where they have a romantic moment as the curtains closed.