INT.
day, lab
FADE IN
Comic
book animated intro
Our
scientist is sitting at his desk looking into a microscope.
He
looks up at the camera and scratches his head
Scientist:
I must better understand these Eukaryotic cells...
He
jumps up out of his chair and begins to walk over to a chalk board on the wall.
Once
there the camera changes to a complete view of the board, which depicts the
cell cycle.
Scientist
scratches his head again
Scientist:
Sighs
He
starts to walk back to his desk.
He
trips on a co-workers chair leg, this prompts him to fall into his own desk and
land on the floor pulling items from the desk down with him. As he settles, the
microscope slides and falls onto his head knocking him out.
FADE TO BLACK.
Cell
cycle awakening
FADE IN
The
camera shimmers into the scientists face, his eyes are closed as if he is
asleep.
His
eyes slowly open, and his pupils become very large as he is in shock from what
he has awoken too.
The
camera fly’s backwards away from his face to reveal the environment and the
fact that he is just a floating head.
The
Camera now jumps to a view from behind the scientist, in the distance there are
stange faces coming towards him.
These
are the cells during their first stage. As they fly pass him the camera freezes
like an image and the cells name shown on screen. The text then fly off the
screen.
As
the cells fly past the scientist He is pushed up into the air and forced to
follow the path they are taking.
The
Cycle
Now
following the common path the cells take the scientist is at the front of the
current line. They begin to fly towards the hexagon-patterned wall.
Scientist
has a look of fear in his face as he thinks he is going to crash.
The
wall then proceeds to open up in a spiral motion, a tunle is reviled and the
cells start to poor into it along there current path.
They
near the end of the tunnel and the scientist is frusated out into a large
orange environment.
The
camera follows the path of the scientists vision.
He
looks in amazement as the walls begin to open to reviel a spiral pattern going
up and ending at an opening in the ceiling. The walls continue to open and
close, in a sort of heart beat motion.
The
camera cuts back to our scientist and he is now slowly drifting along towards
the centre of the environment, his gaze is still fixed upon the opening in the
ceiling.
Small
objects begin to rain from the opening, this is the cells food. He watches as
they fly around and gulp it down, almost in a similar fashion to how a fish
would eat.
After
a brief time watching the feeding the cells begin to group in the middle of the
room, they then start to move towards the sientist again and he is pushed
forward to wards the opening and closing wall, he notices theres and opening
behind the wall this time though.
As
he nears the wall he tries to time himself as not to get squashed by the
closing motion.
In
the next environment, the cells begin to grow and end up being double the size
of the scientist. He struggles to find a space as the ever growing cells beging
to take up a lot of the room in the environment.
He
manages to 'pop' out of the group but is propelled towards the next opening
like a rocket as the cells begin to move again.
It
begins to get very dark as the scientist flies out of an opening at the top of
the next room at high speed.
The
camera shows this by shooting from one side of the pitch-black environment, as
he fly's out of the light filled hole in the ceiling.
As
he nears the bottom of the dark hole the hole has become so small the it looks like
a small star in the sky at night, he looks up as the sky begins to fill ith
small glowing balls of light that drift slowly down towards him, they seem to
be increasing in amount as the get closer.
Once
they have reached a good viewing distance he realises that the balls of light
are actually the cells! They have started glow and become near transparent
allowing him to see what they are made o. He watches on as they split and
become two different cells, and then realises that he ha just gone through the
cell cycle, a brief flashback accours where he remembers each phase, and environment
he has just been through.
The
camera cuts back to our scientist but he doesn’t look so good! He has a look of
pain in his face, but all of a sudden his eyes burst open wide and he
freezes...
The
something magical happens, HE BEGIN TO DEVIDE HIMSELF! he pops in two, which
leave the original confused a nd worried, he faints as he looks at himself
moving around with all of the other new cells.
Lab
awakening
INT. day, lab
He
slowly opens his eyes, and relises that it was all just a dream, as he gets up
from the floor he picks up a pen, and walks over to the board where he has all
of his research. He starts to fill in all of the blank pieces he has been
looking for and smiles as he puts the pen down. The camera now shows the
completed board, whcih now shows a diagrame of the cell cycle and the different
phases a cells takes along its jorney.
The
end.
sounds very interesting, excited to see this come to life
ReplyDeleteI really like this so far and looking forward to reading more:) Keep up the great work!!
ReplyDeleteMorning Lekti,
ReplyDeleteOkay - good to see this on here, and I'd echo the comments here re. looking forward to seeing your script ideas translate into images. What I suggested to your classmates when they posted their first script was simply to move to the animatic stage asap - a sort of 'thumbnail animatic' so you can very quickly see how much content you've got to create. I'm particularly interested in seeing how you approach intro and outro bits with the 'comic book' approach. I can see these working in a very stylised way, and marrying the cgi stuff with these sequences will require balance and some sensitivity. So - short version is turn you script into an animatic as soon as possible - and also be sure to consult the camera/composition/frame resources on myUCA (Storyboard resources etc) to ensure you work nice and dynamically.