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Maybe I'm being too ambitious, but I've never done any film that has anything to do with being digitally painted or colored....  Oh Man!

KALLISTI:  "TO THE PRETTIEST ONE"

PITCH:

The theme behind this digitally painted animation is GREED.  This is a story about gods with Absolute Power versus the Free Will that given as a gift to mankind.  However, even with Free Will, Man has foolishly chased after Absolute Power.  There is no end to this cycle of GREED, as depicted by the Golden Apple.

STORY:

FOR CENTURIES, MEN HAVE BEEN GREEDY.  THEY WANT THE POWER OF THE GODS--SYMBOLIZED AS A LEGENDARY GOLDEN APPLE.  A BEING IN THE MOUNTAINS HOLDS THE KEY TO IT, AND NO MEN HAVE EVER RETURNED FROM THAT PLACE.  

PRESENTLY [WITHIN THE FILM], TWENTY MEN  COME TO INVADE THAT TERRITORY, BUT BEFORE THEY ARE ABLE TO EVEN GET UP THE MOUNTAIN, THEY ARE STRUCK WITH AWE BY A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AT THE PEAK.  UNABLE TO REACT AT ALL, SHE TAKES THEIR LIVES, AND TRANSFORMS them INTO ANOTHER ONE OF HER GOLDEN APPLES...

THE GOLDEN APPLE:

Yes, it's from Greek Mythology.  However, I don't want to mention it as THE source for my pitch, even though it is an accurate source of inspiration, because I am not animating a specific story.  I'm animating MY concept and using a motif from the past.  In the Myth, the Goddess Eris [of Discord] got angry she didn't get invited to a party all the other gods attended, so she set off the Trojan War by getting the goddesses to bid on Prince Paris' favor...  Another side of the Golden Apple is the theory of Cognitive Dissonance.  This is a type of self-reflection with opposing ideas; for example, in Aesop's fable of the Fox and the Grapes, the fox persuades himself that the grapes must be sour since her cannot reach them from the ground...  This aspect also has to do with desire for something that will only lead to bitterness for something that can not be attained  [in my story's case, NEVER be attained].   

My story does not have to do with defending the go, however.  It has to do with the endless strive for this perfectly unreachable goal.

VISUALS:

My first year short is going to be an digitally painted animation about a goddess and an army of men.  Men try to invade a land of powerful lava for an unknown reason, and at the top of the volcano stands a seductive woman.  Without dialogue, this piece will focus on the intensity of the painterly shots and few characters to bring out greed for power in place of life.

CHARACTERS:

A goddess (female) versus a god (male) because there is more of a dynamic relationship--women are seductive and even though the army of men are coming to fight something they haven't seen yet, they still have that desire aspect, which becomes even more powerful when they find out the being is a woman.

PURPOSE:

Open-ended for the audience's interpretations.  There is no "right" answer.  [I don't like "right answers."]