Final film project ideas...

I'm not much of a storyteller. I like to draw and work out problems in the visuals, but anything to do with story is really beyond me.

The idea for this story about a girl who vomits ladybugs when she opens her mouth actually came to me about a year or two ago. I had a homework assignment to pitch 2-3 short story ideas for an animation project, and I kind of already knew what I wanted to do for that project and I had to make up something else. It was super late and I was exhausted so I doodled these.

I just really made myself laugh with these, especially the tripping over a rock.

These images don't really make up a story though. The concept was super funny to me, but all the ideas I had were for visual gags and there wasn't really anything tying them together. How did this start? Why is this happening? How will it be resolved? Will it even be resolved? I had no idea, and to be honest, I didn't even like the idea of there being a reason, a lesson, or a theme attached to this idea. I just wanted to laugh at this girl throwing up hundreds of ladybugs.

My boyfriend talked it over with me and actually came up with the story. He wrote me a script, which I shortened to fit the 2 minute time constraint of the project. I told him I wanted it to be a fable in the Roald Dahl style. He went in a Dr. Seuss direction with the script, which I don't want to go with, but I love the story structure.