Rough Plot Description

After selecting the song Re Your Brains I spent many hours listening to it over and over again, thinking about what could be happening during certain lyrics and musical segments. After much thought I wrote down a rough draft of bullet points, that goes through every shot, event, and important character movement to figure out unstrained everything that will occur in the video. This was also a great opportunity to figure out how many characters I wanted to use, and how visually Tom and Bob would interact with each other.

As I mentioned before, this written form is unstrained, meaning I didn’t hold back much when writing it in terms of limiting myself to a sensible amount of drawings and realistic work required. I’m sure as I go further with this project and get into the animatic, things will get cut out or changed altogether for things like timing and execution.

Animation Outline: First Draft

• Tom is in a cold, dark, sterile office begrudgingly typing away on his computer.
• He hears his boss Bob’s voice coming from the window next to his computer.
• Tom’s window is closed has the shade down; he rolls his eyes.
• He takes a sip of coffee from his “code monkey” cup, and sits it on his desk.
• He reluctantly goes to open the shade to see what Bob wants.
• On the line “…except that I’m a zombie now” Tom opens the shades to see a zombie Bob greeting him.
• Bob has his face pressed up against the window and is drooling on the glass
• Tom jumps in a “what the fuck” manner.
• He runs to the door to see zombies of Jill from accounting, and Bill from marketing stumbling towards his office in the hall way.
• Tom pushes his file cabinet up against the door. Grabbing what else he can to barricade himself inside.
• He presses himself up against the side of his desk which is opposite to the window where Bob is talking to him.
• Slowly he crouches up to look over his desk and out the window.
• While Bob continues to speak, he sees fellow co workers get attacked and bitten by Zombie Jill and Bill. The windows are broken and there are more zombies in the background.
• Camera pans back to Bob who is holding a memo and says “But here’s and F.Y.I, your all goanna die screaming”
• Camera flies outside to a sea of zombies (Like outside the mall in Dawn of the dead).
• We are shown the massive crowd of zombies from the back surrounding Toms work building. All screaming “ALL WE WANNA DO IS EAT YOUR BRAINS”
• Bob picks up some eyes from one of the dead co workers below off screen, and throws them away. “We’re not unreasonable, no ones gonna eat your eyes!”
• Another shot of the crowd of zombies swaying in an almost “comb by yah my lord” kind of way.
• Bob flips through his notes, acts suggestive while pointing to a pie chart behind him on a stand up dry erase board.
• Cuts to Tom horrified, unbelieving face with jaw dropped and eyes wide open. His head still stuck out from behind the side of his desk.
• A zombie hand smashes through the glass of the window.
• Many more zombies start pouring into the building.
• As they start scratching at the door, Tom kicks it open crushing several zombies.
• Tom stomps their heads as he steps on the broken door on the floor
• He runs away from the broken windows deeper into the building, pushing away the zombies as they attempt to grab him.
• Holding his coffee cup, he pours his remaining hot coffee in a zombies face, and breaks the cup on ones head.
• He also throws his pens, pencils, and other stationary at them.
• It is then he notices Janice, the nice sweet looking sectary that he had previously been to nervous to talk to surrounded.
• He noticing the emergency shot gun in the “emergency shot gun, break now to open” case.
• Possible idea if there is room: he ignores the emergency fire alarm, cleaver, and chainsaw in favour of the shot gun.
• He pushes a moving cart, jumps on it and starts shooting at the Janice surrounding zombies. Hitting one of them in the head.
• He hits the rest with the cart and they tumble like bowling pins…but with more blood.
• One of the zombies tries to pull his shot gun away from him.
• Tom shoves it to the ground, aims his gun and blows it away as blood his face and he smiles.
• Amongst all this we cut to zombie bob realizing that he indeed a monster. “I’m, not a monster Tom…well? Technically I am…I guess I am”
• Tom grabs Janice and pulls her into a windowless room, slamming the door shut from inside.
• Zombie bob awkwardly walks up to and knocks on the wall to the windowless room Tom and Janice are in. He does it in a way that shows he knows he’s bothering his employee but he really has to tell him this important information.
• He taps his watch “Got another meeting Tom maybe we could wrap this up”
• Bob points over to the door where three zombies are attempting to get it open. One is chewing on the door knob; the others are standing around looking confused. “…I report back to my colleges who are chewing on the doors. I guess we’ll table this for now”
• Tom is shacked up with Janice. Janice is under bed sheets; Tom is shirtless smoking a cigar.
• They are secure with silent hill 4 like locks on the door; there are many weapons around, and plenty of food.
• We inter cut with them and Bob as he gives his motivational speak. He eventually leaves walking off with a sense of pleasure that he did a good job as he says “…and we’ll put this thing to bed, when I bash your head open.”
• Tom gives the thumbs up to concerned Janice, to reassure her that everything is going to be fine.
• Tom hugs Janice and suddenly notices the big oozing zombie bite on her back.
• His hands fly off her in terror, then his expression changes to a “what the hell” look. Tom shrugs.
• He puts his arms around her again and they tumble like lovers off camera to the ground.

THE END

• 3 main characters, crowds of generic zombies, 2 less generic zombies

1. Tom
2. Bob (zombie)
3. Janice
4. Random Zombies (same one different clothing / body parts missing)
5. Jill (zombie)
6. Bill (zombie)