About the Project/ Journal #1

 About the project:

The essential message of the piece is "you get what you deserve", I suppose. 

Synopsis: An apathetic pet store clerk deals with a frustrating customer drawn to a certain dangerous pet on display.

Genesis of idea/medium:  The idea for this film evolved from an idea I had for an animation a couple years ago. It was basically the same concept but the ending was different. I don't know where the idea came from. I feel like ideas just happen. That's how ideas happen for me, at least. I will be using Flash for this film because I like Flash. It's relatively intuitive and a pretty neat software to boot. 

 Character histories:

Clerk: 28 year old Caucasian male. Apathetic and lazy. Hates people, but likes animals. Will probably work at this pet store forever. He's technically a manager, but he doesn't make more than the regular clerks, so it's really just a dumb title with more responsibilities attached without any reward.

Kid: 12 year old Caucasian male. Terminally annoying. Always nagging people and pushing buttons. Stands too close when he talks, asks obvious questions, chews loudly and with his mouth open, wears socks with sandals, wears ugly shirts for days on end. Presumptuous, mean spirited, and selfish. Basically your average American middle school aged kid.

Journal 1:

First and foremost, I hope to finish this piece on time for the end of the semester! Next, I hope to achieve a finished look that I can be pleased with and not wince at the sight of. I want the film to be funny. I want people to laugh. I am anxious about potential awkward silence, or worse, half-hearted pity laughs. OH lord. Now I'm just getting very nervous about the whole ordeal of making the film. Well, hopefully I can get it done and make it look at least fairly solid.