Green Serpent 1rst version
So a brief history lesson.Back in early 2006 I had been working
at making animated clips for 3 "mini-movies" whose scripts I had worked out in my head.One of the mini-movies got completed but the other two didn't.The notion was to treat the clips as a film-makers American Erector Mechanno Set.The clips were set at a low frame speed of 3 to 5 frames per second and each clip lasted perhaps 3 to 8 seconds.
The clips sat on the back shelf for years afterwards,till in 2013 it looked like the
TSA Bash might have some kind of film festival component to it.It didn't happen,but the American Erector Set toolbox concept got another airing.
Hoare Fang
Motif Title and Description
005 aliens and minaturized submarines in
body
a pre ww1 submarine inside a body ,a
helmetted diver breating air bubbles,a
sphere and its escort passes in the
background in front of a beating heart
010 Cellular transformation
015 corsetted woman screams
020 cylinder turning phonograph
025 Devil turns robed woman into nude man
030 dragon bursts thru roof
035 dragon flaps wings
040 dragon tf close inside windowed room
045 dragon tf closer inside windowed room
050 dragons head flickers tongue
055 experimental photos and models
060 falling man turns into dragon
065 falling trunk from tower into schooner
070 Frost Fang by avi and by cel number
075 Frost Fang the Reluctant Dragon drawing
080 going snouty in front of dragonsegg caverns
085 woman grows close inside windowed room
090 guitar gertie does the striptease drawing
095 Living Lizard
100 running woman turns into bosomy dragon
105 sea serpent hoare fang underway
110 a sea serpent sinks or its capsized
hull bobs in the waves
115 snaky human into a dragon's dragon
120 steam buckboard wagon and train
125 Views of the Settings
a) Hoarefang Tower island
b)SS Hoare Fang side view
c)SS Hoare Fang aerial view
d)Hoarefang Tower with dragon
130 waves against submerged ships figurehead
135 western dragon breathes fire
140 whipping rope beside man in front of
dragonsegg caverns
145 woman closes then opens mouth in front
of a mirror in a room
150 woman in roomlistens to a cylinder
phonograph player in front of the
Bloody August Mirror
155 various charcoal-mation cels of womans
morphing form
160 Wreck of the Sea Serpente
SS Hoare Fangs ancestor runs up on the
rocks in distant shots.The mere dragon passengers
and crew flee the wreck,some not successfully.The
dead mere-dragons return to their true feral dragon
shapes..A feral dragon appears on the wrecks
conning tower and communicates to the huddled
masses .A deal is made.The rocks rise and the
wreck comes above the deadly waters.
0165 sinking of the sea serpente
Green Serpent
episode 01
( based on Grimms Fairy Tales
Little Red Riding Hood and the 17th
century fairy tale
The Great Green Serpent
by D'Aulnoy )
Characters
Little Red Riding Hood
The Big Bad Wolf
Giant Big Ben
The Preacher
Big Bad's lost love
SS Hoare Fang and her folk
( assume for this script that Hoare Fang
is the afterlife for a sea serpente passenger
liner wrecked long long ago and far far away.
Hence she sails through a unformed universe
and is a world onto herself in this otherworldy
chaos or endless ocean.All the other
settings,the island with the tower,the church
are all somehow within this ghostly liner.
She and her original crew and
passengers are doomed to this eternal wandering,
unless like Ebeneezer Scrooge,they can save the
Lost Souls,doomed loves,etc of the worlds.
In the Promenade only one film plays on the
rickety old projector,the final moments of
Hoare Fang.The film always breaks just before
cel se014 in clip m160.That film won't get to the
'Redemption" part (cels se 014 to se027 unless
a good deed is done.)
Opening
video-modified m130
( put individual cels sh000 to sh 010 into Paint
and spraypaint light green sparklers moving from
left to right 'will o wisps' and recompile to make a
clip the length of the Opening and Credits music)
music-greenserpent from the Hoare Fang music archive
as a alternate Follow the Drinking Gourd from
Taylors Tunebook at the Contemplators website
duration-the first 43 seconds of greenserpent's
4 minute 19 second length aught to leave the
impression of a 'Flying Dutchman loveboat'
music lyrics (?)the cold wide stillness when i swim in this bay
i am drowning all by myself
for the swell in me for the green serpent
i am not alright
Act 1
video-a modified m100
( use the first cel of the building by itself
for the duration of the Preachers "I
pronounce you husband and wife".Then
time the remaining clip of woman running
out of building to BBll's line .cut out
portion of clip where the running woman tf's)
audio-to be supplied
duration-still image and animation adjusted to the
length of the characters lines
video-m100 still image cel
Preacher-and since no one has raised any objection
to why this man and woman should be
lawfully wedded,i now pronounce you
video-the modified m100 of woman running out of
building
BB's lost love- ( screaming) he's a werewolf
Act 2
(scene starts with little red in front of the mirror,
listening to some bouncy devil tune
video/cels - M 150
repeat clip to length of audio track
music -What Do You Do With A
Drunken Sailor/Farmers Curst Wife/The
Ghost Lover
audio effect -woman laughing
duration- 66.6 seconds ( 3 fps)
(number of the Beast )
audio effect ( loud) Click
( laughter stop abruptly.For the tune that means stopping the tune at some inappropriate spot in mid tune )
video -M150
audio/music-silenced
duration-5 seconds
video- M150
audio- Big Bad Wolf 0005
Big Bad Wolf ( cold emotionless) hey hey hey,its your
ex-partner here ,the Big Bad Wolf.While you were
out shopping with Granny me and Big Ben came
by and left this message.I know you wrecked my
wedding.Meet me on the Promenade at 10
tonight.Be alone!
video/cel M150 dressed woman image
overlain on m0125a tower island
duration timed to length of the Narration track
audiotrack-supplied narrator 010
Narrator:(N010)when Jack robbed the giant Big Ben the giant was
hard up for
clothing.So when Big Bad Wolf,who suspected that
Little Red had ruined his wedding,learned that
Jack and Little Red were cousins,the plot was
hatched
( take individual cels from m150 and run them through
Paint to shift image fraction of a inch in random directions
so that when they are put back together as a video clip the
visual effect is of a room shaking whilst the phonograph is
still turning )
video-the modified m150 clip
audio- Giant 005
duration- as required to suggest Big Ben is banging
away at the building Little Red is in
Big Ben-fee fi fo fum,i smell the blood of a
englishmun
Act 3
( since the Promenade aboard SS Hoare Fang does
not have any image cels or clips as at the time this
script was made,use various tricks.Perhaps cels
from m130 with a background overlaid on the image,
of the coast moving from left to right.Or the m105
clip speeding up or slowing down in sync with the
conversation between Big Bad Wolf and Little Red)
video -modified m130 and m105
music-'whoisat'
( available as midi in Taylors Tune Book archived
at the Contemplator website.record to Video
Framer 1.07 's audio recorder as a wav file )
duration-long enough for Big Bad to get plastered from
the whiskey bottle he's purloined from Hoare Fangs
shipboard bar and grille.about 33 seconds according to
Who Is At My Window Weeping's cycle.
video -clip m160
( start at wrecked sea serpent on the rocks,end just before
the dragon on the conning tower appears,roughly
cels se0004 to se0013)
audio-papercrumbling
( Big Bad Wolf was crumbling up the latest letter
from his lost love,who was explaining why she
can't
marry a guy who turns into a werewolf when a silver
wedding band is placed on his finger )
audio effect-heartbeat fast,heartbeat medium,heartbeat slow
in background as the letter is read in the main
audio track.time as required to leave
impression of a cooling love via the
slowing heartbeat
lost loves letter -Dear Johan....
video -clip m105 stopped midway,with the craft frozen
on the screen,cel su007 used as still for length
of silence
audio-'dead' silence
duration-9 seconds of silence
video-m160 from cels se0014 to se0027.the feral dragon
on the conning tower saying 'enough already,save
yourselfs"
audio-paper tearing sound ( the lost love letter)
duration-start audio track with paper tearing sound,then
Big Bad Wolf's 'enough already' declaration
Big Bad Wolf- ( somewhat slurred ) Enough!
video-clip 130 added onto itself to make up the 25 second length
of the Getback music tune.start first chunk at slow sluggish
speed,increase speed ( via video framer 1.07's speed
function or frame rate adjustment )till the final few
seconds suggests things are moving again
music-GETBACK from the Hoare Fang music archive
Act 4
video- m20 timed to length of Narrator audio
audio- supplied narrator 015
Narrator-and so Big Bad Wolf confronted Little Red in the
Promenade and though she lied through the teeth
he learned in a roundabout way that the control
for the cursed silver ring that had ruined his
wedding lay in Little Red's trunk.They were both
due to depart Hoare Fang in three days.Big Bad
needed
that trunk to go away permanently if he'd ever
have a chance in the world beyond the Endless
Ocean
video-the still m70 timed to narrator 020 audio-supplied narrator 020
Narrator-the ships bartender told Big Bad that there was this
black gang dragon he knew who came up occassionaly
to visit him.for a small price he'd see that trunk never got
out of never never land
video-m 065 using a modified cel fa0012 with the 'trunk'
erased from the deck of Hoare Fangs shore ferry
perhaps jiggle fa0012 in Paint to create a clip
leaving impression of rocking boats,as like the
giant shaking building scene
audio-general crowd noise of passengers departing
the ship.possibly happy chatty Little Red and more
nervous and worried Big Bad Wolf.suit to taste
duration-as required
video -m020
Narrator-and so the ships bartender holding a bottle of
whisky.he made as if to give it to Big Bad but
stumbled and the bottle rolled across the deck to
the edge.that was a $40 bottle of whisky and
Big Bad noticed it seemed to be rolling close to
Little Red's trunk.Big Bad went after the bottle
and slipped on a banana peel.the big wolf's feet
crashed apon the trunk as he hit the deck and both
the bottle and the trunk went sailing over the edge
video-m015
Little Red-( loud screech/scream) My Trunk!
video-m065 cut at cel fa0005
.freeze at this point.
music- 'sleepy.mid' from Taylors tunebook in background
Narrator-frost fang of the Black Gang was sitting beside the coal
loading gate,just above the passenger tender
Clara Anne.so when that trunk came into view
video-m135
then take the still image from m065 ,fa0005,and paint
it with a nice orange fireball.then do a cel with collapsing
fireball,and no trunk
music-keep 'sleepy.mid' in the background
video-m105
Little Red-(softer than before) my trunk
video -m120
alter the cels to include a brown oval ( Big Bad Wolf)
moving from right to left,and then aboard the buckboard
hitching a ride from that goggle wearing driver
Closing
video-the modifed m130 from the opening with the green
will o wisps.perhaps Paint closing credits into the
will o wisps
music-Love is Easy from Taylors Tunebook to end things
on a lighter mood.sort of a lullaby tune.The Mist
Covered Mountains from same source as alternative
Finis
