Brainstorming Notes

Claustrophobia + Agoraphobia Idea

It starts underground (claustrophobia).  2D animation style. (Deliberately narrow view/screen of animation to enhance claustrophobic feeling.

Ends getting outside (agoraphobia). 3D environment. 

Over populated industrial world set underground.  

Focus on single main character suffers with claustrophobia.

Show emotion – sweating, eye movement, facial expressions

START:

Animation starts by showing apartments compact together, all sounds coming from different windows. Zooms through window in the middle to the main character.

Things that annoy main character: finger tapping, slurping drink, scratching, loud talking/shouting, noisy eating (apples? Crisps?), heavy breathing, dripping water, baby crying, pen clicking, ticking clock, hysterical laughter, industrial sounds (gas hissing, clang of metal etc).

Close ups of all the annoying things that main character focuses on. 

Sound important! – Several different annoying things, move from one to the other with the sound building up – then all together linked/synced with annoying animations to form a sort of beat that drives the main character crazy.

How does character escape to get outside or above ground?

-          Finds tunnel going up?

-          Washed out of a sewer pipe? – Onto a vast empty plane? Comes out of pipe from a giant wall. Unable to climb back in (too high up).

-          Being chased by something? Something sinister?

-          Trying to escape? Evacuate – some happens/ goes wrong

-          Told to do go somewhere, ends up out of the norm.

-          Could be something the character finds/possesses that takes him away.

See character get washed through sewage pipes, could be top down 2D style.

END:

See’s pipe in wall that goes off in both directions – obvious where he came from and that he cant go back.

He looks away from wall and sees huge empty area – happy at first rejoices and runs around in all the empty space.

Then gets lonely and misses old home (use seasons/weather to show passage of time (day/night?)

Fat guy pops out the pipe too (who was annoying and driving him crazy earlier)

They are glad to see each other

Then fat guy does his annoying thing (eating loudly)

Ends with close up of main characters face about to lose it again.