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Hi, pnetters.
I need some help. Since I got here and started working on this teeny weeny cartoon I've been wracking my brain for the perfect title. Let me give you the inside scoop on the plot. I'd love as many suggestions as I can get.
We open with a wooden diningroom chair, at night, in some sort of open yard/field. Big starry sky. There's a seat belt tied to, and dangling from the chair, and some pegs and straps with clamps in the ground, around it.
Light from a door creeks open and shuts. A silent little man calmly walks out, with a fish bowl under one arm. He stares at the chair, looks at his two little goldfish, and then back at the chair.
He looks at his watch, looks down at some pegs and walks toward them. He quickly flips the fishbowl upside down and places it on the ground. A little bit of water seeps out, but overall, everything stays in place. The fish bob from upside down to upside right as he clamps the upsidedown fishbowl down to the ground. He pats the fishbowl affectionately. He cares about his fish.
He looks at the chair and looks at the sky (there are a lot of these slow, pregnant pauses). He walks toward the chair, sits in it and proceeds to buckle himself in. He then tips his chair backward until he thunks on his back, on the ground. He then reaches for the other two pegs/clamps in the ground and clamps his chair down to the ground.
pause for a few beats... and he raises his arms slowly and lets them sway straight upward. He then raises his feet slowly -- the same. We soon see the water in the fishbowl turn upside down and his hair (he only has three little hairs) point upward.
The scene slowly turns upside down and we zoom far, far, far out to see the entire globe. We see that he's dangling from the bottom of the earth.
Others fall off, "eek! aaaa! ooo!"
he hangs there. dangling.
Fade to black.
It's going to be accompanied by elevator music, to give it a "just another day" feel -- a little ironic, considering it's, like, the end of the world.
I've been describing it to people as "the Noah's Ark of Gravity", but I want the title to be just a little ambiguous, so that people aren't expecting something to do with gravity giving out.
I had been going with "Pre Ptolemy", because not many people really know who Ptolemy was, as opposed to Newton. Newton in the title would be a dead give-away.
I owuld love some sort of Noah implication, but not so obvious. ..."Akry?" That's not quite right.
I need help.
If all else fails, I'll go with "Pre Ptolemy", but it's not really "PRE Ptolemy", it's post... it's just the breaking of gravity.
help? anyone?
I need some help. Since I got here and started working on this teeny weeny cartoon I've been wracking my brain for the perfect title. Let me give you the inside scoop on the plot. I'd love as many suggestions as I can get.
We open with a wooden diningroom chair, at night, in some sort of open yard/field. Big starry sky. There's a seat belt tied to, and dangling from the chair, and some pegs and straps with clamps in the ground, around it.
Light from a door creeks open and shuts. A silent little man calmly walks out, with a fish bowl under one arm. He stares at the chair, looks at his two little goldfish, and then back at the chair.
He looks at his watch, looks down at some pegs and walks toward them. He quickly flips the fishbowl upside down and places it on the ground. A little bit of water seeps out, but overall, everything stays in place. The fish bob from upside down to upside right as he clamps the upsidedown fishbowl down to the ground. He pats the fishbowl affectionately. He cares about his fish.
He looks at the chair and looks at the sky (there are a lot of these slow, pregnant pauses). He walks toward the chair, sits in it and proceeds to buckle himself in. He then tips his chair backward until he thunks on his back, on the ground. He then reaches for the other two pegs/clamps in the ground and clamps his chair down to the ground.
pause for a few beats... and he raises his arms slowly and lets them sway straight upward. He then raises his feet slowly -- the same. We soon see the water in the fishbowl turn upside down and his hair (he only has three little hairs) point upward.
The scene slowly turns upside down and we zoom far, far, far out to see the entire globe. We see that he's dangling from the bottom of the earth.
Others fall off, "eek! aaaa! ooo!"
he hangs there. dangling.
Fade to black.
It's going to be accompanied by elevator music, to give it a "just another day" feel -- a little ironic, considering it's, like, the end of the world.
I've been describing it to people as "the Noah's Ark of Gravity", but I want the title to be just a little ambiguous, so that people aren't expecting something to do with gravity giving out.
I had been going with "Pre Ptolemy", because not many people really know who Ptolemy was, as opposed to Newton. Newton in the title would be a dead give-away.
I owuld love some sort of Noah implication, but not so obvious. ..."Akry?" That's not quite right.
I need help.
If all else fails, I'll go with "Pre Ptolemy", but it's not really "PRE Ptolemy", it's post... it's just the breaking of gravity.
help? anyone?
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