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I missed a day of work Monday because I had to take my car into the shop.  The Check Engine light came on Sunday and there was no way of getting the car checked on that day so I had to wait till Monday.  The car was in the shop all day so I missed work.  I spent the rest of the week, making up the hours.

I hope to get done with Act 1 by the end of the day. Especially since I’ve also been assigned the Couch Gag.

ART

Sometimes I come into problem as I thumbnail my film which I can’t wait to write about.

Okay so as I was sketching out the thumbnail sketches for page 6 I ran into a choice.  I could either continue thumbnailing the fight I had written on my treatment OR I could cut the fight in half and end it quicker.  This meant that a whole section of the fight I had written was out.  I put a lot of effort into figuring out how the fight would play out.  It had a lot of exciting things in it.  Also, by reducing the fight, would it be anticlimactic? Would I lose information that I needed to set up for later?  I’m not sure.

I thought about it.  I reread what I wrote.  I decided to cut the fight in half.

Here’s what I thumbnailed:

Below is what I had written in my treatment.  This is what I thumbnailed on my script above:

Rob grabs his hot dog, opens his mouth and is about to take a bite. Before he can get to it, he ducks under a Winged Ape’s claw as it tries to snatch his hot dog.  He quickly climbs over a bench and hides behind a tree putting it in between him and the Ape.  He goes for a bite but finds another Ape behind him who tries to smash him with both it’s fists.  Rob moves out of the way and almost drops his hot dog. He then tries dodging a tree that was hurled at his hot dog from an Ape but the plate gets hit off of Robs hand and goes flying through the air. Rob runs after it.

Here’s what was cut:

Rob lunges toward the hod dog. The Female sorcerer throws blades  at it only to have them disintegrated by colliding with her companion’s Entropy Orbs. He was also attempting to hit the hot dog.  Enough of the blades survived to hit the plate, sending it sliding across the floor. She turns angrily at him. He shrugs apologetically.

The silver ape chases after it. The plate comes to a stop under the legs of the black zombie Ape. It reaches for it. Unable to stop it’s momentum the Silver Ape tackles into the other Ape.  The hot dog and plate get knocked into a tree. The Other Male Sorcerer continues throwing orbs.

The Viper creature goes for the hot dog.

Rob runs to the tree and climbs it.  the Viper lunges at him. Rob grabs the plated.

The Other Male Sorcerer throws an orb and hits the tree. It begins to disintegrated.

Rob rides the tree down and jumps off as the viper strikes. The viper gets a mouth full of tree.

Rob lands on it’s head and begins sliding down. An Aped comes out of no where and tackles him. from behind.  The plate gets knocked out of Robs’s Hand.  The Ape reaches for it.  Rob pokes it’s eyes and kicks it away from himself. The Ape growls in pain as it lands hard on the ground.  Rob goes down hard as well. He stumbles and slides to a halt.  The hot dog still on it’s plated only a few feet away.

Why did I cut this second part? Well, because by the time it all ends, he’s in the same place he started. On the floor, hurt, a few feet away from the hot dog.  It’s a bit redundant.  What I like about the second part is that it shows off some of the Sorcerers’ powers and it make the importance of the hot dog a bit greater.  But will that matter in the long run?

I figure, I have four more large fight scenes that need to happen before the end of my film. Reducing one, would speed things up. I really won’t know if my choice was right until I do a rough story reel. I suppose, if it’s needed, I can add it back in.

What do you think? Should I have cut it.  Do I gain anything from putting it back?

VIDEOS

Superman is my favorite superhero and there’s a good reason why, but I’m not going into that right now.

That said, I’m not above making fun of him either. Especially since so many people have dropped the ball with him over the years. This little movie makes fun of the Death of Superman storyline that happened in the 90s. It was a pretty lame story so it’s easy to make fun of. At the time, it was difficult to find a well written comic. This parody though, really does a good job a showing HOW bad the story was. The video below, made me laugh SO much. The film stars Elden Henson, Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore, Morgan Krantz and many more. Check it out (WARNING: THE VIDEO CONTAINS BAD LANGUAGE):

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