Milestone 1


Milestone 1 Deliverable


Story Proposal description

 

    My one-minute story animation will come in the style of a trailer for something like a game or movie. The trailer opens with a fade from black to show a dark mechanical room with a figure shrouded in darkness positioned in the center. The figure starts speaking in a deep, low voice that is altered by its mask, giving it a more mechanical and robotic sound. The figure speaks throughout the trailer, giving its dark and foreboding monologue about the universe it exists in, whilst weaving a narrative of despair for all other lifeforms of the universe that It deems lesser than itself. As the narrator carries out their monologue, a multitude of scenes appear briefly on screen (3-10 seconds each) that give a visual to what the narrator is talking about.

    In brief, the narrator begins with a description of the current bleak state of the universe where the only harbors of life from the endless black hole-filled void are the Sentinels. Massive artificial constructs created by a long-lost alien race to harbor and facilitate life, now often holding long-extinct creatures and peoples which that ancient alien race resurrected through unknown sciences. The narrator goes on to then describe the plight that these resurrected creatures and peoples find themselves in upon escaping the cradle of their Sentinel, calling their struggle a blind race for salvation which ultimately leads to the same end. The narrator will mention how all those resurrected peoples did not deserve to be brought back as in its eyes, if they were so weak as to die out in the first place, then they deserve death.

    The trailer ends with a close-up of the narrator giving its final words, showing the glowing red mouthpiece of the figure brighten and dim each time it speaks a word. The final scene is of a slow zoom-out from the gear and rail star artifact shown sporadically amongst the scenes, out to reveal that it is inside of a destroyed ship and that the ship is within a ship graveyard where a massive otherworldly portal structure looms amidst the wreckage.



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