Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Concept and Seven Sentence Story


Concept: Rex over sleeps for his big presentation at work.

1. Rex sleeps in his bed and rolls over, the alram clock glows into his eyes.
2. Rex opens one eye to discover that the alarm clock did not awaken him and he has now overslept.
3. Rex is paniced and jumps from the bed as he must now rush out the door.
4. Rex tries to get his act together as quickly as possible but everything seems to be challenging him.
5. Rex puts his shoes on first and battles to pull his pants over them, he then attempts to pull his shirt over his head while the hanger is still in it.
6. Rex grabs his briefcase and car keys and charges out the front door.
7. Once outside Rex discovers that it is still night and he has hours before he will have overslept.


4 comments:

Akkempf said...

I just got some questions about rex, like what kinda clothes does he have, and what was the deal with his alarm clock, what time was it showing to make him think he missed work, because most every alarm clock says am or pm, unless he has an analogue clock and just stopped at a time that seems past his work, then at the end of your animation u should have him go look at his alarm clock and see that its broke and like throw it or something, i feel like it just shouldnt end at him going outside

Kat said...

If he thinks it's daytime even if it's actually night time, he must have a room that normally recieves little or no sunlight. That could be a slight problem if you have the room all planned out.

I'd love to see some sort of thing at the beginning letting us know it's especially important to show up on time today: maybe a memo or post-it by the clock.

I do agree there's a bit more that needs to be explained about the clock. Short of a power outage that set the clock a couple hours early, I'm not entirely sure how you'd be able to make the clock being read as morning believable.

Kat said...

Oh, another thing: How can you twist this or change this so that it's a little lees in the realm of real life? It sounds at the moment like this could be filmed with a camera in live action. Perhaps some not-so-normal problems or downright impossible things get in his way of getting ready?

Anonymous said...

To begin, the introduction is engaging yet there is a minor holes in it. Firstly, the alarm clock needs to be explained more. Why did he think that the alarm clock was broken? Perhaps it is daylight savings time and he forgot to reset the clock.Moving along, I do like the how the story progresses with everything getting progressively worse as the character attempts gets ready for work. Although, i do wonder how bad things really get. Does he cause great physical harm to himself? This could be a bit of fun and entertaining. Maybe he ends up with a black eye and some missing teeth.Lastly, the ending left me unsatisfied. There needs to be a much larger twist. Perhaps, he is in some weird day dream and snaps out
of it only to realize that he has mad a fool out of himself at work. Good concept that needs a bit of work.