New Outline

So, completely changing directions here. New outline. New shit. Yeah.

Focus of the semester is exactly what follows:

Story - a monster is attacking the city. a girl in a super hero costume appears but she has no powers. she uses various methods and tactics to fly and fire at the monster using the stuff around her to achieve her goal of ridding the city of the monster.

theme - belief, believing in ingenuity of the self

moral - keep trying until you get it right

setting - uber generic city, think "townsville"

aesthetic - bobble head, "strongbad", illustrator style

character -
Super Sally
age - 6
hair - blonde
eyes - brown
skin - white
clothes - generic super hero costume
how she thinks - child naivety, believes she can do anything once she's in her costume (the blanket theory, that you're impenetrable once you're covered) and is bold. Is mischievous at times when she tries rotten tactics to achieve her goal. she also shows a fussy side when she doesn't get her way immediately. however, she ends up coming back with a relevant solution once given the opportunity to consider the options.


Goal -
The goal of the piece is to present the idea of human ingenuity, even at a young age. The audience should root for Sally and laugh at her comedic attempts to take down a monster that is clearly overwhelming. Her bravery is naive but should be rewarded with audience respect for her attempts at slaying the beast.



3 Act Story Structure:


Act 1
Intro with a monster roaring, attacking the generic, powerpuff girls style city.
Sally appears in her costume, pointing up at the monster like she's going to stop it. She thrusts her arms forward to fly. Then she puts her hands together to try and make a beam. She pulls down her sunglasses to shoot heat lasers. All of these cause nothing. The audience realizes she has no special abilities.

Act 2

Obstacles -
1) she needs to get high up to fight the monster. she tries multiple objects including holding on to a bird, a fire extinguisher, and taking an elevator when all else fails, taking her to the rooftop nearest the monster.

2) she needs a weapon to fight it. she tries more things such as sticks, throwing the bird at it, a javelin, launching stones via catapult, and finally getting a flamethrower from nowhere and firing at the monster.

First Culmination - The monster is effected by the flamethrower and finally pays attention to her and her efforts. It turns on her and they fight until she runs out of flame.

Midpoint - When she runs out of flame, the monster uses it's tentacle and easily smacks her off the building to which she falls to the ground in wily coyote style fashion. Getting up out of the hole in the street created by her fall, we see her run down numerous streets, the audience unsure of where she is heading to. We see her leave town and go into a grove of trees.

Act 3
Climax - A pounding foot sound can be heard off screen. The monster looks scared at Sally who looks quite pleased. She is riding on top of the head of a giant, mutant, rabid squirrel. The squirrel chases after the tentacle monster through the maze of buildings and eats it.

Denouement - The squirrel comes back and Sally presents it with a giant acorn and it leaves happily with its nut. Sally poses heroically and feels accomplished.