Visual Storytelling -HP (Story Brief)


"What if a woman raised a pig like a child, and what if that pig had dreams of free running"

*The story of a pig named Parker 
*Set in the early 2000s
*Fly-over state, small town (Reference Hobbs, NM)

*-Pig walking down the road in the middle of the night
-car comes and hits the pig as its crossing the street 
-woman gets out of the car to access the accident, phone in hand to record for insurance
-discovers a small piglet cowering behind the body of the pig
-woman decides to take the pig home 
-pigs name is Parker
*-woman decides to raise the pig as if it were her own offspring 
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-Sequence of scenes where pig "grows up" (pigs mature faster than humans)
*-pig feels like an outcast to the other children in the neighborhood
-has no friends, spends most of time alone and with mother
-Mother offers to take Parker with her to run errands in order to combat boredom 
*-enter "Goodwilt" store
-Parker discovers the action section of the store and is drawn to a "Hardcore Parkour" tape
-becomes engrossed with parkour (from very limited resources)
*-plays "free running" with mother 
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-Pig is now a young adult (in reality only a few months have passed) 
-Mother is struggling financially, so he decides to get a job 
-job at local grocery store
-Old woman (owner) is nearsighted and mistakes Parker for overweight teen
-Coworkers (family run, family of old woman) don't like Parker 
*-Coworkers make job difficult, turn old woman against for incidents around the store
-pig feels like and outcast yet again 
*-Goes home after a bigger incident at store gets him sent home early
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-Is going around his room moping
-gets annoyed and knocks stuff over
*-discovers Parkour tape (tape is a locally recorded tape)  
 -notices that there is an advert in the box that was never noticed before
-Advert has website on it
-asks mother how to access website and she informs him about an old computer sitting in the storage space
- discovers parkour competition locally held every year
-must submit video entry
-deadline for submission is (?) week(s) away
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-commence training 
*-Parker begins to train (rocky sequence)
-mother is supportive/ cheerleading
*-Gets in trouble at work for lack of focus
-Coworkers cause him to create an accident 
*-gets fired 
-sad scene, decides to focus more on parkour
-must edit the video together
-gathers all of the footage to edit it
*-notices he has been taping over a previous video
-decides to watch it 
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***VIDEO
- Mom explaining that she hit something in the road
-damage to car
-small pig
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*-Parker goes to confront mom
-gets frustrated and runs away
-runs into wooded area behind the trailer park 
-feels like days
-surviving on instinct
-removes clothes, walking on all fours 
-smells something in the distance
*-truffles--- TRUFFLE TRIP
-Magical being guides him home 
-comes to sense on the way back 
*-Mom and pig reunion and apology 
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-Finishes video
-sends it in 
-gets accepted 
*-leaves town 
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To be continued??? 

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