Collaboration: Story Development So Far.

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After further discussion with the group last week, we have agreed to adding a secondary character to counteract our original character actions within the skits. With this came with reworking the original skit ideas and also dropping the video store skit to allow for better story within the other 3 skits (Rolling Diner Waiter, The Hotel Bellhop and The Launderette Attendant).

For our second character we decided to go for an older character in his 50's who comes across as very serious and grumpy and tends to have an air of self-proclaimed importance.

Adapted slightly from Kim's original profile.

Moom Sr designs by Kim Davis.

Through adding this secondary character it should in theory allow us to have better dynamic within the scenes, since now there is a cause and effect (action/reaction) happening within the scenes. To gain better understanding we each attempted to create 'beat sheets' that follow this action and reaction structure; to then combine our outcomes to get more of a cohesive idea of how we want the scenes to flow. To do this, we conversed over teams and Saskya typed up our new scene flow with the addition of Moom Senior to react to Moom Juniors actions; ultimately ending up with Moom Junior blaming Moom Senior for the accidents that occur within the skits.

Typed up Beat Sheet by Saskya Olsen.


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