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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