tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942315674015111766.post3322289368756747896..comments2023-04-18T12:01:03.585+01:00Comments on Vikki Kerslake: From Script to Screen: Possible ThemesVikki Kerslakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15329977973876749879noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942315674015111766.post-2557545819282741632013-01-14T13:38:38.263+00:002013-01-14T13:38:38.263+00:00Hi Vikki,
Okay, I've just been bouncing your ...Hi Vikki,<br /><br />Okay, I've just been bouncing your 3 components around in my brain, and I'm just sharing here some of the connections I've made - useful or not!<br /><br />It did occur to me that perhaps the notion of the playground (in which the seesaw resides) could be pushed around a bit; for example, in the aftermath of WW2, children used the bombsites in London as 'playgrounds'... I was wondering too, if you had a lot of children buried in a graveyard, how would all those ghost children play in that environment? Perhaps for them, the graveyard would be a lot like an adventure playground. Perhaps your gravedigger is a grumpy character, who is always being punked by the ghost kids? I was thinking about the 3 ginger boys in Brave in terms of the way they might persecute the gravedigger (the way they persecuted the maid with the cakes in the film?).<br /><br />It does seem as if there's a natural combo between 'digging' and 'cellars' - after all, a cellar is simply a store room under the ground; perhaps the cellar is your gravedigger's residence - perhaps he lives below the Mausoleum? What would a gravedigger keep in his cellar, I wonder? Maybe, this is a story when the gravedigger keeps chasing away the ghost kids, but ultimately builds them a see-saw on which they can play happily?<br /><br />It did occur to me too that in digging a grave, your grave digger could dig his way into a cellar by accident - and that there's something down there; maybe it's a wine cellar, and maybe the grave digger gets so drunk he has an experience not dissimilar to this famous sequence from Dumbo:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944cPciN-kw<br /><br />I can absolutely see how a see-saw/playground surrealism could creep in and how you could have a great time creating a dream sequence; there's another celebrated cartoon that has this structure; MGM's Bottles, which I always loved as a child:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVWD_DYzBSk<br /><br />You could embrace a kind of classic cartoon-inspired stream-of-consciousness 'Happy Harmonies' approach. Take a look at this animated short too for inspiration for how 'wild' things could get for your gravedigger...<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_hgktpIu4Q<br /><br />tutorphilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842833126210822641noreply@blogger.com