Story: Thursday my story was the Disney girls ending with them all perfect again, which I realize is a horrible idea; especially since I set up this realistic depiction only to go back to fantasy land.
I decided to keep the initial set up but throw out the story book setting. Now they are just roommates that live in a trailer together. I want to open the first scene with Cinderella scrubbing the middle of the floor in this nasty trailer (she is facing the right side of the screen with her back to the left window). Suddenly a mouse appears to the left through the open window and squeaks a note (literally a visual note) which causes more mice to show up. They all get down on the floor behind her and start singing which scares her. She has a huge phobia of her old friends and runs off screen to the right. The next panel is Sleeping Beauty doing what she does best in a nasty bed when Cinderella busts in and tramples on her bed to get away from the mice. This wakes Sleeping Beauty up in confusion and she proceeds to run with Cinderella as they both go off to the right screen again.
The scene changes to outside of the front trailer steps where Snow White is looking bored and she's having a smoke. Snow White is facing the right side of the screen with her back to the front door. As the camera view widens out it reveals that she's looking at 7 little tombstones. It cuts back into a waste up view of her just as the front door bangs open and Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty run into her but fall back (to the left) off screen. Snow White then turns to face them when a deer pops up from theright. It starts to make notes but Snow White just puts her cigarette out on its antlers. The deer is taken back but a bird lands on its antlers and proceeds to sing, prompting the deer to join in. Snow White becomes visibly annoyed and runs past them off screen (to the right).
The frame switches to Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty (asleep again) who are still on the ground from the impact. The mice scurry onto the screen and start singing, again causing hysteria from Cinderella and confusion for the now awake Sleeping Beauty. They both run off screen in the direction of Snow White. The screen changes to a shot of some woods when Snow White runs into the frame with Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty following.
After Snow White catches her breath the shot closes in on her as she tries to pull out another cigarette and lighter from her pocket. Again the deer and some more birds come into frame and start singing, causing her to drop her cigarette. As she looks at them pisses the deer then holds up an apple in front of her. Her eyes get wide and dreamy as a memory cloud appears over her head (crudely drawn in crayon) of her in her dress and the dwarfs dancing around her in a circle. Then it cuts to a frame of Cinderella where the mice come over to her again. She covers her eyes with her hands and then the mice present her glass slippers. The twinkle off them catches her eye and she dreams just as Snow White about how she used to wear the shoes and dance with her mice friends. The frame then switched to Sleeping Beauty again out, until some birds place her crown on top of her head. She wakes up an then notices the crown and proceeds to dream of her sitting on a throne and a prince leaning in to kiss her. The camera shifts back out to show all the girls cradling their objects and the animals surrounding them. Then the frame (using a black masking layer) circles around a single mouse in the bottom left corner. He turns and looks at the camera and picks up a tea cup.
The black mask circle then widens out to reveal the scene has changed. Now the girls and animals are at a little tea party. The scene changes to a close up of Sleeping Beauty as she's about to dose off. She's got a helmet on thats hook up to a button. A bird presses the button which proceeds to shock her awake (use a layer mask to change between her a a skeleton). The camera changes to show Cinderella sitting on the right as a mouse from the left passes her some sugar. She looks down but the frame shows her looking at a realistic and disgusting render of a mouse. It changes back to cute vectors and Cinderella cautiously accepts the sugar. The scene switches to Snow White as the right end of the table with a deer to her left. The deer is facing away from her and she strikes a match on his antlers and tries to light a cigarette. The deer turns around and catches her. She gives him an annoyed look but throws the cigarette off screen and proceeds to offer sugar to the deer. Then finally the camera again shows a wide angle of them and a THE END.
B. Character Breakdowns:
1. Snow White: She's all about covering and masking her emotions so she won't get hurt get her hopes up when something terrible happens (i.e. her dwarf friends all dying). She uses her addiction to cover her selfishness and refuses to be of service to anyone. She wants nothing more than to forget the life she once had because her fairytale didn't come true and now she feels isolated and alone. She also refuses to bond with any animals because they remind her of her old dwarf friends and how pointless it seems to try to make friends. Her deer friend specifically helps because it establishes that their are those out there that care about her and are willing to help her through her troubles whether she wants them to or not.
2. Cinderella: She has a problem dealing specifically with realizing who her friends are now are not the way she saw them when she was younger. She pictured them as perfect, adorable singing mice who obey her every command. Now she notices things about them that cause her phobia (their faults and problems). They don't blindly listen to her anymore in a similar fashion to Snow's deer friend. They do what they feel is best and even thought Cinderella is trying to flee them (escape their possible faults and indirectly her own) they continue to find her until they confront her with her glass slipper. It reminds her that even she once on the outside was ugly (had faults) but that she was given an opportunity to show her beauty (being accepted as human/faulty but able to achieve her goals and strive for excellence); the idea of the ultimate achievement for anyone is to strive beyond their own faults and setbacks to achieve their goals.
3. Sleeping Beauty: Her specific problem is not paying attention (being awake) to the world around her and has lost her curiosity. She has no drive or will to be apart of anything, social or confrontational, around her and is stuck in her laziness. She has no goals or even thoughts because she'd rather waste it doing absolutely nothing. Her crown represents her role in society and the realization that she once had goals but now that she's given up on them, she has no purpose; not even for just herself. Again by the animals (birds) literally keeping her awake they are constantly trying to remind her of having a will and a purpose again; also having to do or deal with situations in life that aren't comfortable but necessary.
C. Visual Diagram:
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