Monday, January 27, 2014

Madison Kelley, Step 4

CG Short: AquaLife? (title possible to change)

In a world ravaged by the impurities cause by humans, they seek survival underwater. Earth's atmosphere has become so toxic from pollution that life simply can no longer inhabit life on land. Humans have developed the technology to allow them to live in deep depths of Earth's seas, with advanced technology that enables them to breathe while submarined. Life is great; simple. Only myths exist of what life was like before marine life. The humans lived a very intricate city made up of a thick, glass like bubble for their life submerged. Life is great, beautiful, and happy.
     Life on Earth was a thing of the past, until it became the only way for mankind to carry on life. Throughout the years, the sun consumed over a third of Earth's bodies of water because of global warming, threatening life aquatic. In hopes for a future, a brave team of scientists devote their lives to ascend into the toxic above. The best chance at a future is for humans to re-establish life on Earth.
     On a brave mission, the scientists venture up onto Earth to see if life can survive above sea level. Will they be successful in their quest to once again save humanity? Or will life slowly deplete as the Earth's water does?

-2D visuals with sound overlaying the scenes
-Make the characters speak?

Character/Environment Style Inspirations:

Very blue/underwater- colored characters.
 
Adding in the "Vertical Farming" innovation, but into the underwater life. Normal agriculture from plants and sustenance to livestock are able to maintain life underwater with the humans.
 
 


Scenes:
Open with a very stylized, underwater scene of the aqua city depicting day-to-day life.

Pan around the city as the story of "global warming" begins to be read over the scene.

Scene with the team of scientists volunteering to explore the toxic world above them.

Team assembling and swimming up towards the Earth above.

The team struggles, losing one or more people on the journey upwards.

Ending scene 1/SUSPENSE: They emerge from the water, and the scene cuts with only the expressions on their face- gasping and astonishment

Ending scene 2A/ETHEREAL:  They emerge from the water, then cut scene to the beautiful, ethereal city with a super lens flare effect.

Ending scene 2B/ETHEREAL: They emerge from the water, then cut scene to the beautiful, ethereal city with a super lens flare effect as they crawl up onto Earth and walk through this stunning unknown world.

Ending scene 3A/TOXIC:  The team emerges from the water to [cut scene to the land] find the worst, most toxic/destroyed world they had always envisioned.

Ending scene 3B/TOXIC:  The team emerges from the water to [cut scene to the land] find the worst, most toxic/destroyed world they had always envisioned. Ending scene depicts the team walking through the rubble of the past.

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