Ryan
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[edit] The Future: The Musical
[edit] Pitch
It is the distant future, the year 2015, and even with all of our robots, time machines, and double-necked guitars, there’s still one thing we can’t invent, a device that will save Earth from complete annihilation. Thankfully, a super badass dude named Murdock Handsomeworthy can, and he’ll pretty much have to do it whether he wants to or not. The Future: The Musical is an eclectic journey through animation in a way that has never been seen (or ever will be). This extraordinary piece of media magic utilizes the animation techniques of stop-motion, computer generated, rotoscoping, flash as well as live-action special effects to bring the viewer a fast paced, musical experience through history and space.
[edit] Brief Synopsis
The world has become a very cold and dark place (metaphorically of course). Due to severe overpopulation, humans live in an uninspired, uncreative existence fit to appeal only to the masses. All buildings look like concrete boxes designed by first-year community college students. There’s only one style of music, a combination of synth-pop and repetitive hip-hop beats where all songs sound like Justin Timberlake in a Lil’ John video. Humans have inadvertently turned themselves into a society of zombies.
This is where we join our hero, Murdock Handsomeworthy, a young man who was raised by a small village of the extreme elderly in the Pacific Northwest. He was taught in the style of the old ways, learning things like art, classical literature, and music that wasn’t created by a keyboard. After a tragic event, Murdock leaves the village where he finds a city of dancing and singing people who are extremely scared and confused. Since they have never heard of or seen this style of creative expression, they are unaware that it’s a form of dance. Being the only one who can recognize what is happening to these people, Murdock alerts scientists about these events. He comes to learn that a black hole is controlling peoples minds while also in the process of destroying earth. The scientist explain that the only way to destroy the black hole is by traveling back in time, kidnapping histories greatest musicians and rocking out so hard that the hole recedes back into space. Will Murdock succeed? Will humanity sing and dance itself to death before the black hole gets a chance? Will I actually finish this? Stay tuned, and find out.
[edit] Skills n' Things
Ryan plans to learn many new skill sets while nurturing already prevalent techniques. Some of these new skill vary from developing an original script for animation, becoming proficient in CGI, writing and composing varying styles of music and incorporating various kinds of animation techniques such as light animation, stop-motion and pixilation. Of course, Ryan doesn’t like to stray too far from his comfort area into the danger zone (only Iceman knows that highway), so he will be calling upon Adobe Flash to move the story along, mostly just the talking and storyline elements (the boring scenes between the magical singing and dancing numbers). These dance numbers shall be mostly written and composed by Ryan, while some elements Ryan will be collaborating with the band “Wolfellatio” to complete. Some assistance may be needed in the recording studio later in the year, but for the most part, the songs will be created with live guitars plugged into Digital Performer.
[edit] Production Schedule
Quarter 2
- Weeks 1-5: Complete script and storyboard, write at least one song and animate and record voices as I go along.
- Weeks 6-10: Videotape footage for rotoscoped scenes. Write and produce two more songs, continue animating and recording audio.
Quarter 3
- Weeks 1-5: Complete most narrative sections, Create special effects portions, produce two more songs, animate.
- Weeks 6-10: Finish animating. Complete folly sound, sound effects and editing. Complete the piece and then pat own back.
