Midterm Project Proposal

After looking through my sources and considering my overall theme of having an adult perspective remember a child like aesthetic and hopefulness, I have decided to tell a character driven narrative about what happens after childhood and how sometimes being reminded helps people improve their lives. I would like to tell a parody character driven narrative about Disney princesses after they've "matured" somewhat and how they can be reminded of what made their lives "magical" to begin with. In my story the girls, Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty have forgotten what their storybook ending was supposed to be and have picked up some bad habits. Snow White is chain smoking slob who could care less about anything. Cinderella has picked up a serve phobia of mice which is bad for all of her singing friends. And Sleeping Beauty well, just can't seem to get over her narcolepsy with no prince in sight. The story opens with a little mouse jumping into a dusty old book. The scene opens on Cinderella scrubbing away at the floors when the mouse along with some other come up to sing her a few notes. She freaks out and runs to the next scene where Sleeping Beauty is comfortably snug in her bed but quickly woken up by the commotion. They both run (Cinderella in hysterics and Beauty in confusion) into the third scene right into Snow White who is just standing on her filthy front porch having a smoke. Snow looks annoyed that they ran into her but otherwise could care less. Suddenly the mice along with a couple of other forest dwellers appear behind the princesses and start singing tunes for them. Snow responds with annoyance, Cinderella is still frightened of the mice and Beauty who has fallen asleep is forced awake. They all decide to run further away into the woods to get away from the animals. The animals all decide to approach them individually bearing a present for them to remind them of the role they play and the dreams they once had. Some mice slowly approach a cowering Cinderella to give her her glass slippers whose feet are now dirty. A deer goes to Snow White to give her an apple which reminds her of her now dead curiosity. Finally some birds place a crown on top of Sleeping Beauty's head awakening her. The instant that any of these objects touched the girls they changed from there haggard and tattered clothes into the nice clean dresses they are suppose to be wearing. Aesthetically I was looking for something along the lines of this in terms of the design of the girls. I think it falls in line with the sort of doll, puppet like look that I have already experimented with in earlier projects. Also I was thinking for possibly the trees and ground to have them use written text as a texture to continue with the storybook feeling.

Chris Manfre's "Going Home"