Monday, September 27, 2010

Midterm Proj: Theme, Story, Character, Genre

Theme: My overall theme for this project is the idea of reaching or striving for an ultimate goal. I derived this idea from the my previous proposal about the idea of number influencing
a decision. In this case it can be taken literally because of the character. I wanted to be like a
character using numbers as a stepping stone for a larger idea.

Story: My story takes place inside a container that holds balls for lottery machines. Inside of the container there are a variety of different numbers. A ball in particular (the "one" ball) feels that he is sort of a loser because the other lottery balls don't talk to him. With that idea in mind he devises a plan to get noticed and appreciated. The plan is for him to become the winning lotto number. Every lottery drawing have 5 numbers and then the winning number. In order for him to accomplish this, he has to fight past the other number to get to the lottery machine first. Eventually after a failure the lottery ball accomplishes his goal only to be found out that for this drawing, there is no winner. So he is then placed back with the rest of the numbers.


Character: The character for this story is called "One". As a character One is very isolated. He had the tendency to let isolate himself and constantly feels the need to build his ego and gave a level of appreciation. Appreciation and acknowledgement is very important to this character. He feels that since he is the first number, other numbers should look up to him. Instead the other numbers ignore him.
I based this idea of the character based on the symbolic meaning of the number one, which is
(ego, self, self-expression)



Genre: I plan on having this genre to be a little comedic but more so adventure like.



Heres an example of the machine I would like to use:


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