...storyline, storyline, wherefore art thou storyline?

To tell a story, you need a storyline, right?

RECODING CONVENTIONS

So apparently the idea of this is to in a round about way, take an overused convention of animated media and essentially turn it on its head.

The convention we went for was thus -

Original 'Stuff'-

• Pied Piper of Hamlyn - Nice story, kills rats, steals children
• Generally drawn animation for 'fairytales'
• Child-friendly
• Pastely and cute

New 'Stuff' -

• Pied Piper - Gruesome story, kills zombies, murders children, paedophilic tendancies
• Puppetry - puppets as 'living'  but playing dead (zombies) humans as 'puppets' but playing living (children)
• 18+ script - cliched then overridden by talking back puppets
• Dark and adult

The inspiration for all this came from various places. Originally, we looked at how 'Disney-fied' todays fairytales have become - i.e. the good always wins, prince gets princess, no one dies, not scary for children - when originally fairytales were intended to scare children. They were created as lessons to frighten children from succumbing to the dangers portrayed in the tales (getting lost in the woods, drowning etc) We wanted to remove all the fancy niceness and return to the originals.

The idea for puppets came from looking at adult animation today and what came up as 'almost-animation' was Team America. From this we looked back to, again, past and original methods - Captain Scarlet for example, Punch and Judy - all these were around far longer and far earlier than todays 2D animation yet are so underused even though they have so much potential.

From this we created a basic storyline.

1)Townpeople wander about
2)zombie growl, town people panic and strings get tangled
3)Untangled townpeople leave
4)Zombies descend on tangled people
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5)Piper strolls into town, Mayor says 'who are you?'
6)Mayor - we'll give you a fucking amazing reward if you sort out this shit out for us
7)Ok, where are the kids... hey kiddies, grooming voice
8) Back to normal, talks to mayor
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9)zombie attacks, healthy kids run... disabled kid gets mangled.
10)zombie, piper, ninja fight
11)boy=grateful, piper=horny, wheels him off...
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12)piper walks back into FULL attack, sometown splatted on stage, somehiding behind props.
13) whips out fiddle, zombies scream and huddle
14) hand of god sets zombies alight
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15) pay me! no! hype hype hype
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16) Oi look at me! Pissy sweary OTT speech
17) whips out fiddle
18) children get hypnotised, dragged off.
19) piper on rock, playing fiddle, one by one child headbutt oral sex then knocked into river.
(20) piper puts down fiddle.. picks up cigarette and lights it off burning zombie.)
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Now for the wonderful job of editing! Yay!