Monday, April 14, 2008

Flash project (edited from original post)

So I think I'm going way cheesy for the flash project. Using modified clip art, I'll do a story of a potato who's depressed because of all the low carb dieting these days. A steak walks by and says something nice to cheer him up. (Yes, it's perfectly normal for steaks and potatoes to be walking around a city.) The potato takes it the wrong way and becomes obsessed with the steak and starts stalking it. Steak gets fed up with the creepiness and decides to do away with the potato. Exactly how, I'm not sure yet. It'll be set to 'you're just too good to be true. can't take my eyes off of you...'

I think it'll work out and I want to keep the cheese level nice and high the whole time.

Vote on how you'd like to see the ending or post an alternate ending here.

Here's the beginning of my creative process:
After Saturday's class I was thinking quite a bit about Cap'n Crunch as the serial cereal killer. Googled the idea after my husband said "I think something about that's been done before." I didn't read of what I saw but it seems it's not a new concept so I dropped that idea. Then, remembering what Allison did for her project, I thought about telling this story about falling in a puddle in front of a porta-potty. Decided the humor of that story is in the telling of it and I don't want to do any voice recording. The next idea was the story of our clogged kitchen sink back in our old apartment. It became a story over the days it lasted. Two different friends from different circles said it would make a great, silent, B&W film. Eerie. Probably because I had this image of a rat flying atop a geyser of dirty sink water when the plumber sent a shock of forced air through the pipes. (So much yuck and stank came up whenever we tried to unclog it, that I was convinced there'd be dead rat parts floating up at some point.) Decided the story was too simple for 2 minutes but too difficult to capture with my limited illustrator skills.

4 comments:

CK said...

It's funny. I like it.

Kristin M Royer said...

I am voting for the tree mulcher because I like the homage to the Cohen bros. But if it get's too complicated, I'd go with druged potato passes out in the sun and burns. I think I like these two options best because they cause the potato become a recognizable potato dish (hash browns and baked potato).

CK said...

I enjoy the tree mulcher idea- the potato becomes a french fry.

Edgar said...

Mash the potatoe.