after seeing the animatics and deliberating on what works, we have come up with another updated pass at the story beats:
Here are story beats for scenes 01 and 02:Scene 01: Intro Sequence
Close-up of skull on counter (food on stove in background). Skull picked up, spray clean counter
Spooky candelabra, goblet, pizza/Arby’s boxes on table. Cleared off
Blood juice box, other garbage on floor. Picked up, bugs scurry
Creepy, rusty gardening tools, gathered up
Mirror with face in it, windexed, face disappears
Framed zombie death certificate, photos of friends, dusted/cobwebs cleaned
Dust/bones/trash swept into pile in closet, tilt/crane up to shoulder slamming bulging door closed
These shots intermixed with Mark in bathroom getting ready:
brushing teeth
Perfume/cologne
Putting on clothes, final seconds
Cut to Mark walking toward window to open blinds:
interior, approaching blinds
Exterior open blinds, reveal Mark face and monsters on couch
monsters react
Mark talks to monsters about not screwing anything up
Monsters “omg, we knooow, we won’t
do anything”
Mark leaves
Mark pops back in?
Scene 02: After Mark leaves
monsters mock Mark
Bat monster, wearing robe, acts like GF
Bat monster trips on robe belt, falls into dinner table
Destruction (see Corndog’s sequence)
Dinner table breaks in half, everything goes flying
Pieces fly into closet door, door bursts open
Monster crap from closet flies across kitchen, hits stove controls
Pots bubble up and explode
Flaming crap goes everywhere
Couch incinerates, except for the part the zombie sits on
monsters
hiding behind pieces of the table as shit explodes around them
Monsters; “oh shit”
Pano of destroyed apartment
Thought bubble sequence
SO leaves Mark
Mark sad, cries an ocean
Mark eaten by a big shark
Interrupted by zombie hand slapping Aldo and Bat
(edited)
Monday, April 27th
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