Approaching the story

APPROACHING THE STORY

I have always imagined this story as an action packed hyper realistic animated movie, which was the primary reason for studying 3D, animation, VFX after my graduation and later joining Visual Communication for my Masters in Design in UID, Karnavati University, Ahmedabad. My views and opinions were shaped by watching thousands of movies, webseries and documentaries. I have been an avid reader of fiction books, global news articles relating to environmental reports and world politics and other genres. From early childhood, I had a keen interest in fictions and hence I developed a strong English language skill set. I have a keen interest in other Indian languages as well like Punjabi, Himachali, Urdu, Haryanvi(a dialect) and of late Marathi and Gujarati. It all began in a dream during my graduation years, when I saw a Snow-leopard jumping from the top of a high speed metro train onto the other one coming from the other direction, cutting the steel of the train with his blades to enter inside and exit by breaking the window on the other side of the train within a split second. Ofcourse, in the dream it happened in slow motion and thankfully a knock on the door made me wake up and I found it hard to remember what I was just watching in the dream but somehow I held on to it and wrote this much information on a parchment. Everything else I built around it with my concious imagination. When I got the opportunity to write a book for our “Design for Print” module in UID, I was delighted to write it about the origin stories of Snowleopards, Tasmanian Tiger and the first part of the meeting scene. I was an animal lover from early on forming plots of this story made me an environmental enthusiast. Watching the Cowspiracy Documentary was a turning point in my life as it changed my outlook towards the environmental protection efforts forever. Earlier I was not much of a meat eater but after watching the documentary and reading a lot about the vegan movement I shunned meat from my diet. So as

of now, I am a vegetarian who wishes to be a vegan soon but leaving milk products is as hard for me as leaving meat would be for a meat lover. Regardless, I was obliged to include this message in my story and I found it challenging but a very interesting plot when apex predators like snow-leopard and a tasmanian tiger would restrict humans from eating meat. For the course of this project, I have decided to approach the story in form of a script intended for a webseries of seven episodes.

CHARACTERS

Extincts Council: • Snow Leopard • Tasmanian

Tiger • Dodo • Black Rhino • Passenger

Pigeon • Ibex

Migrating Animals : • Lioness • Leopard • Jaguar • Cheetah • Puma • Tiger • Sphynx • Clouded

Leopard • House cats

• Wolves • Hyenas • Foxes • Pet dogs • Wild Dogs • Jackals • Crocodiles • Alligators • Ghariyal • Komodo

Dragon • Lizards • Snakes

• Elephant • Rhinoceros • Hippo • Bears

• Bevers • Muskats • Rabbits • Mouse • Rats • Honey badgers

• Cow • Buffalo • Yak • Goat • Pigs • Horse • Antelop • Deers • Boars • Bisons • Bluebulls • Giraffes • Zebra

Birds: • Eagles • Hawks • Vultures • Owls

• Penguins • Kiwi • Ducks • Swans • Cranes • Geese

• Pigeons • Crows • Sparrows • Peacocks • Parrots • Chickens