cobravision more ideas

Hi, thanks for the comments!

I tried to think of events that have happened to me or that I have see or heard, heres a few which I think could be better starting points for me to really develop.

idea one

was something i read in the mirror about the worlds most deadly road its just a 10ft wide dirt track that twists and turns hugging the side of a mountain below which is a valley with a shear drop of 16,500ft. the road is know as El Camino de la Muerte-the road of death! wooden crosses and bunches of flowers line the side of the road a reminder of death. Truckers drive up and down it each day taking their lives into their hands as they wonder what might be beyond the next corner. A cyclist has also plunged to his death misjudging a hairpin bend.

I can sort of visualise silhouetting the mountain and road with crosses on its edges. I could maybe twist the part were the truckers dont no whats around the next bend maybe its something scary or magical or something else or I could change it a bit, by having someone in skiis skiing down the road/mountain he too could misjudge the bend and plunge of the edge, he panics you dont no whats going to happen then the screen could either go black or he could have a paracute?

Any suggestions/comments welcome

idea two

I once went for a meal and a drink after work with my friend Tracy. On our way out of the pub we went to the toilets. Only when I went to open the lock on my door the lock was stook and I couldnt get out! I shouted to Tracy to tell her I was stook and she shouted stand back, so I did the she kicked the door, the door flew open and the lock and screws holding it onto the door frame flew off.

the story needs padding out but it was so funny when it happened it was like a scene from a movie, well we thought it was funny!

idea three

someone could be eating cherries and swallows a pip by accident. That night they are restless in bed and keep turning over. Gradually as the night draws on their skin begins to turn brown, twigs and leaves start to sprout all over their body. then their arms grow into branches and feet stat to grow roots. when morning comes and they open their eyes they are now outside. they have grown into a tree through their house and out of the roof!

I kind of based the idea on an animation i saw were a man ate cherries he had picked when he swallowed a pip. over the next few days a tree began to grow out of his head. I cant remember how it ended.

idea four

a true story from when i went skiing in italy with senoir school

On our first day on the slopes we practised on small slopes once we got the hand of turning. As we began to practise going down the slope i remember seeing kirsty the girl a few places in front of me begin to go off to the side and couldnt change direction, she was heading straight for a kind of hut/shed at the bottom edge of the slope. I saw her crash into the hut, I saw her arms, legs, skiis, and poles flying everywhere rolling further down the slope until she stopped. she wasnt really hurt and started to laugh it was really funny and reminded me of some cartoon I had seen.

idea five

I like the book and movie memoirs of a geisha as there are some very interesting discriptions, scenes and memories described. As the book is a kind of diary of a woman telling her memoirs of growning up and becoming a geisha I liked the idea of animating part of her memories.

I thought the opening shot could be of the woman as she is now- old sitting in a dark lit room or cafe smoking a long pipe (this could be silhouetted) then there could be a shot of her face wrinkled, and then zoom in on her eyes through which we are then taken back to her childhoon memory. she was taken away from home to begin her jouney as a geisha in a city within japan. she was taken by train. Have a shot or too of what she can see from the train window, the mountains of her home town, blossom trees without their blossom (maybe in silhouette). The city she is being taken too comes into sight, you can see rooves, lights and smoke. she has a look of sadness and fear on her face.

I need a ending something with a twist maybe or she/we hear a noise and the memory ends?

I think i like idea one and five the most but they need working on i.e better endings or they may be too long to do a 50sec anim from.