Seeing as we have changed the story for 'Junk Food' I thought it might be a good idea to give a detailed outline of what happens now.................
Ok, so like I had established in a previous post, we managed to keep the general outcome of the story the same and most of the plot development is still very similar, it's just waaaay more simplified and less of an 'epic'..................
There are essentially 3 scenes that make up the story..............
Scene 1 - This scene establishes the characters, their purposes and how they meet. The story starts with a radio transmission (1950s style broadcast) which will explain how humans left the planet in large ships to explore the stars, we will then see a starry sky fade in with our main character Sophie holding up a toy zepplin/ship to the sky while in deep thought. [For the sake of being brief Im gona leave out explaining every shot and just run through the story] Sophie then turns to a grave stone she is sitting next to and ask her father if she will ever got off the planet. This will all establish that Sophie is a girl stuck on the planet (not sure if we want it to be Earth or not yet) with the ultimate goal of getting off/'escaping' the way humans did so in the past, and also identify the grave she is sitting next to is her father's.
After she asks the question another radio transmission cuts and to say somthing like "never in a million years...", something on those lines. Sophie then shows her firey character and throws the toy away in anger, the toy zepp in a way also showing her in anger giving up on 'escape'. The toy will then hit and wake up an inactive Junk Robot (these robots being partially explained in the initial radio transmission at the beggining). Through a small sequence of interactions (maybe also Sophie pulling a jammed object out of the Robot which is preventing him from being operational, thus helping/saving him first) the Robot notices the toy zepplin in Sophie's hand points in the direction of a dark valley and walks off as if to say "follow me". Hesitant at at first, Sophie looks back at her fathers grave and decides to follow the Robot. [FADE]........... Sophie looking back will also suggest she is affraid to part with her father or maybe seeking some guidence of what to do.
Scene 2 - This scene's purpose is to show a journey and passing of time between the graveyard and their final destination. Not much will happen in this scene.......... maybe a few interactions like the Robot picking up Sophie if she falls over or give her a supporting push when she gets tired. It will be short shots of them travelling through the valley, which the sky gradually becoming close to sun rise, but not quite.......... Fade in at the beggining and a fade out at the end to show passing of time.
Scene 3 - After the fade in we will see our characters exiting the valley and approach what looks like the edge of a crator or a large pit. When they stop we will have a close up of Sophie's face as she is looking down at the floor from being tired and now unhopefull...... when she looks up to see why they have come to a stop she will burst out in joy. The camera will then sweep round them zooming out and tracking from behind and above them to show what has excited Sophie so much, and there the audience will see a huge Zepplin/Ship on a launch platform in the crator with the warm morning sunrise gleaming behind it. She looks at the Robot and storms down the steps leading to the platform, the Robot follows.
When the group was thinking of how everything will start operating on the platform, I had a suggestion that maybe once the Robot crosses a certain line or barrier the platform will engage and power up, suggesting that it was these Junk Robots' purpose to launch these huge space Zepps/Ships........ 'our' Robot being the key to Sophie's 'escape'.................
We also thought maybe we could show lots of inactive/dead Robots around and on the launch platform, making it sort of a graveyard for these Junk Bots, but then decided it would make the animation too 'dark'........... However our tutor Dan Dalli gave us the go ahead for it and suggested that we could just show forms that looked like brocken down Junk Bots which the audience could identify but Sophie couldn't.... especially with her over joyed state.
When Sophie enters the Zepp/Ship out of excitement the Robot carries on with his bussiness calmly, knowing what is about to happen. He makes the door close on Sophie upon entry, makes his way to a panel on the Zepp/Ship that seems like a power grid or plug in socket for something...... while Sophie is pressed up against the window wanting to know wats going on. The Robot will then open his chest and pull out his energy source (his heart in a way) and place it into the panel on the Zepp/Ship. The audience will now fully know that the Robot is the key and power source to making the craft launch off, and that he must sacrifice staying behind in order to help Sophie be free.
A count down will start, maybe represented with sequencial lights on the plaform, notifying Sophie that the craft is about to take off...... without her new friend in it. She cries and pleads for the Robot to get in the Zepp/Ship, but the Robot knows it must stay behind. When the Zepp/Ship takes off we will see the robot burning (but not damaged), then, the cable connecting from his chest to his heart now in the Zepp/Ship will tear out............ putting an end to the Robot's life.
The animation will finish off with a medium close up of Sophie crying from outside the Zepplin/Ship's window as its blasting off, then cut to a final low shot from the ground where we can see the Zepplin/Ship firing off in the distant sky and the radio close up in the corner of the shot............ a radio transmission kicks in with a braodcast that seems like a message to Sophie to now be free and happy............ making the story come round in full circle to end how it started (with a radio transmission) and suggest that maybe her father was somehow in the radio or controlling the radio making the events of the story occur for his daughter to be free...............
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