Final Script

{Titling}
-01.000
The opening animation will display the title, and the movie description. Both will be shown on black because the next scene will be very dark. The titles shot will be as long as whoever makes it (with in limits of course) and will play up to time 00.000 of the animation.

{Atrium of Apathy}
02.000
This is the shot where the newbie stumbles around in the newbie trap. He hurts himself at every turn, stumbling over his half finished creations. This shot is very dark, and it is hard to see anything and the music is gloomy and depressing. {Beyond the waste land, cut required}

{Curious K}
00.500
Kernon is working at his desk, at one point, he switch from his desktop PC to his laptop, then a few seconds later, he starts to notice the noise, and looks up. The noise was quiet though, so he continues working. 6 seconds later, there again, is a bang, rumble, and groan, and looks up again, listens, and stands up and starts to walk to the doors of his office

{Hallway walk}
00.300
The camera slowly follows behind K as he walks down the hall way, and stops by the door that leads to the newbie trap, and listens. Then the camera shows him opening the door.

{Newbie Found}
00.220
The camera is slightly behind the newbies shoulder. The newbies head is sagging, he is breathing, and making groany, whiny painful sounds. Then all of a sudden, the door cracks open, powerful light streams in through the crack, newbie stops sound effects, and lifts his head to look. The door continues to open at a moderate pace, and eventually shows K's head through the crack, BUT, the scene is quite whited out. In the same way when you walk out of the basement into a very bright summer day. Kernon sees the newbie and flings open the door. Comes to him, sits down beside him, looks him over, and then puts NewBs arm over his own shoulder, and stands up, lifting the newbie to his feet.
Kernon will have sat at the newbies Left, because the newbie has a wound on his upper right arm.
Kernon then leads the newbie out the trap room, down the hall way and his office. With his left hand he pulls up one of the waiting chairs and sets the newbie down.

{Rehab}
02.200
(Continued) Kernon walks over to the File cabinet and pulls out the Medkit and out of that, he pulls a roll of bandage and wraps newbies arm several times around with it. He puts away the med equipment and gives the newbie the BlenderNewbies Dvd pack, and pulls out a “map” which is a screenshot of the blendernewbies forum.

{Instruction}
01.100
Kernon then helps him stand up, (the newbie can stand on his own now) and leads (he doesn't hold him up, just walks in front of him) him out the office door, to the end of the hallway, opens that door, and out onto a deck like structure. There they together lean on a rail, and Kernon motions with his arm to the horizon, where in the distance is a glorious (something spectacular) structure. But in between the viewers and the destination, lie many hardships, such as canyons, mountains, etc. Kernon then points to him the stairs that lead off of the desk, the newbie thanks Kernon with a handshake, then looks at his “help material” (the DVD pack and forum) then with a determined motion, he walks down the stairs, and leaves the camera's view. Music; Escalate!!!

black screen, with credits and maybe a bit of special fx and some pepy orchestral music.

Some random thoughts:

the animation will be roughly 402 seconds, 6.7 minutes, or 10,050 frames long.
10,050 frames at lets say (to be generous ) 15 seconds render time per frame is 41 hours render time! (thats amazingly fast! I think we can probably afford to add some eyecandy.)

myrmedon wrote: I originally had 3 scenes in mind.

000: Opening Titling
-x 00.000
Movie title, background story will be shown here.

001: NewB_Stumbling.001
00.000 00.200
The camera fades into the darkness of the newbie trap room where the newbie is stumbling around blindly.

002: Kernon at work
00.000 00.200
The camera warps to Kernon's office where he is hard at work, punching away at the keyboard, you can very faintly hear the sounds that the newbie is making in the newbie trap.

Notes:
Kernon will be punching away at his Desktop's keyboard, and once, he pauses to glance at the laptop on who's screen is is requiring input. He leans over and hits once in the vicinity of the enter key. Then the screen changes and he goes back to work on his desktop PC.

003: NewB_Stumbling.002
00.000 00.200
The camera is back in the newbie trap, now the newbie starting to get more desperate and is blundering about even harder and making more noise. All of a sudden he smashes rather hard into the wall, which emits a dull-hollow-drywall sort of thud. Instant cut on that sound.

004: Kernon at work
00.000 00.200
The camera warps to Kernon's office where he is hard at work, punching away at the keyboard, you can very faintly hear the sounds that the newbie is making in the newbie trap.

Notes:
Kernon will be punching away at his Desktop's keyboard, and once, he pauses to glance at the laptop on who's screen is is requiring input. He leans over and hits once in the vicinity of the enter key. Then the screen changes and he goes back to work on his desktop PC.

myrmedon wrote:Easy, DVD is on one of the shelves, and while K gets it, blendernewb walks around the room curiously, examines the flag pole and nearly knocks it over

myrm