In a world where objects come to life when the humans sleep, the evil dust bunnies that reside and hide under the bed of Jack's room plan to drain the life energy of Jack to take over the world. Jack is peacefully sleeping after a late night study session until the digital clock hits 7 o' clock and begins ringing. Jack's day needs to begin, or he will be late for the test he studied so hard for. Jack springs up, but his body felt week, and resists Jack's attempts to get up. Jack continues his struggles to get up, and after multiple attempts, and landing in different awkward poses, falls back into slumber, and falls into an even deeper sleep that before.
Seeing Jack's struggle, the inanimate objects around his room start coming to life. The alarm clock, Gear, whose main duty is to wake Jack up every morning to start his day begins to hop closer towards Jack, and rings his alarm again. The alarm rings normally at first, but is unsuccessful. Gear opens up the hatch on the top face of his cube body, and reveals a giant horn, and blows. The volume steadily gets louder and louder, shaking the entire room. Despite the constant efforts of the clock. Jack is still sound asleep in a twisted position. The alarm clock gets serious, and begins his transformation revealing his true form, and starts physically waking up Jack. Even after all the slaps to the face, and physical abuse, Jack is still asleep, now bruised. Gear wonders why Jack wasn't waking up as it has never happened before.
He closes his eyes to think and concentrate, and hears a sound coming from under the blanket that is covering Jack's body. Gear lifts up the blanket, and discovered two dust bunnies sucking the life force out of Jack's chest. This is the reason why Jack has been getting weaker and weaker, and unable to get up. The dust bunnies look up, and immediately pounce towards Gear. Gear transforms his left arm into a sharp blade, and defends himself from his attackers. Jack swiftly slashes his two enemies in two, and immediately, Jack is once again conscience, although only slightly. Realizing that he needs to get rid of the problem from the source to wake up Jack, he hops off the bed, and lands on the floor.
He moves the blanket covering the entrance to the dust bunnies' lair, and carefully walks in. Inside, it is revealed just how many dust bunnies had accumulated under Jack's bed. The dust bunnies look up towards the light of the outside world that Gear had revealed, and see the intruder. A few dust bunnies quickly assault Gear, and are instantly defeated and immobilized. Realizing that Gear was an opponent that they could not defeat alone, they combined their bodies, and formed a giant, menacing looking dust bunny. Gear looks back in horror, but then a great idea forms in his head, and begins to run towards his enormous enemy. Running and dodging the giant dust bunny's aerial projectiles, Gear opens the compartment on the chest of his body, and takes out his weapon of choice, a vacuum cleaner. When Gear got into vacuuming range, he turned it on to its highest setting, and the giant dust bunny began to get sucked into the tiny vacuum cleaner. As soon as the dust bunny was completely sucked up and defeated, Jack immediately wakes up, and realizes just how late he was.
Jack quickly gets dressed, grabs his backpack, and runs out of his room. Gear comes out from under the bed, and covered in dust from his previous battle. The objects around the room celebrate the victory that was just achieved, and dance and party until Jack comes back from school.
Seeing Jack's struggle, the inanimate objects around his room start coming to life. The alarm clock, Gear, whose main duty is to wake Jack up every morning to start his day begins to hop closer towards Jack, and rings his alarm again. The alarm rings normally at first, but is unsuccessful. Gear opens up the hatch on the top face of his cube body, and reveals a giant horn, and blows. The volume steadily gets louder and louder, shaking the entire room. Despite the constant efforts of the clock. Jack is still sound asleep in a twisted position. The alarm clock gets serious, and begins his transformation revealing his true form, and starts physically waking up Jack. Even after all the slaps to the face, and physical abuse, Jack is still asleep, now bruised. Gear wonders why Jack wasn't waking up as it has never happened before.
He closes his eyes to think and concentrate, and hears a sound coming from under the blanket that is covering Jack's body. Gear lifts up the blanket, and discovered two dust bunnies sucking the life force out of Jack's chest. This is the reason why Jack has been getting weaker and weaker, and unable to get up. The dust bunnies look up, and immediately pounce towards Gear. Gear transforms his left arm into a sharp blade, and defends himself from his attackers. Jack swiftly slashes his two enemies in two, and immediately, Jack is once again conscience, although only slightly. Realizing that he needs to get rid of the problem from the source to wake up Jack, he hops off the bed, and lands on the floor.
He moves the blanket covering the entrance to the dust bunnies' lair, and carefully walks in. Inside, it is revealed just how many dust bunnies had accumulated under Jack's bed. The dust bunnies look up towards the light of the outside world that Gear had revealed, and see the intruder. A few dust bunnies quickly assault Gear, and are instantly defeated and immobilized. Realizing that Gear was an opponent that they could not defeat alone, they combined their bodies, and formed a giant, menacing looking dust bunny. Gear looks back in horror, but then a great idea forms in his head, and begins to run towards his enormous enemy. Running and dodging the giant dust bunny's aerial projectiles, Gear opens the compartment on the chest of his body, and takes out his weapon of choice, a vacuum cleaner. When Gear got into vacuuming range, he turned it on to its highest setting, and the giant dust bunny began to get sucked into the tiny vacuum cleaner. As soon as the dust bunny was completely sucked up and defeated, Jack immediately wakes up, and realizes just how late he was.
Jack quickly gets dressed, grabs his backpack, and runs out of his room. Gear comes out from under the bed, and covered in dust from his previous battle. The objects around the room celebrate the victory that was just achieved, and dance and party until Jack comes back from school.
The first two acts seem very fun. Am wondering if you could give the objects a reason to help Jack? Why do they want to help him? Is it because he is a kind master? How would you show this?
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It is a good reason as to why Jack doesn't wake up, but the whole "wrong" and "right" side would be almost impossible to communicate to the audience. The draining life force concept would also be difficult to communicate visually. Maybe just having the bed want to keep Jack in the bed, because it is lonely, or scared of being alone. You could also have the bed be evil. Am just not sure the details would be clear to the audience.
Also, if you have ALL of the objects in Jack's room come to life, you will be doing a LOT of animation for "side characters." Just something to think about.
Very difficult to relate to the initial problem. How are you going to show that dust bunnies are alive, evil, and sucking the life force from Jack? The backstory information is unavailable – you need to write something you can show your audience that they can grasp. I think the battle is interesting, though I agree with Elizabeth’s concern that the final scene of celebration may prove daunting to animate.
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