Identity Project v2

In some down time that I've had between projects I returned to this from the beginning of the year to adjust audio and add some music.

Story Writing

So this week we were kind of between projects and were giveen a mini-project to write some ideas for a short story using some random element. My elements were:

Aerobics, secret diary and a welcome back. The idea I settled on was:

After a long journey through space the monkey named Aerobics (Aer for short) returns home. He reminisces on his journey by looking through his video diary.

Once we had our basic ideas we were put into the groups and told to combine our ideas into one story. Beginning, middle and end. We were then given a starting sentence. Our story is as follows:

Everyone in the office turned and stared when the doors burst open, pinning a temp between the door and the wall. Moment of silence as a group of alien monkeys disguised as generic office workers walk in. They are all unified as if one single entity, except for their leader, a woman named Delori. Dressed in a similar suit to her henchmen only grey. A large office chair spins around to reveal the protagonist Mr. Long a 'little person' boss.   Mr. Long removes the secret binoculars from his desk drawer and hides them in his suit pocket. The binoculars have the ability to reveal the office workers and Delori for what they really are. Delori points at Mr. Long instructing the office workers to chase him down. They charge through the office, bashing anything out of their way. Mr. Long jumps out the window to the street below. A chase scene ensues where Mr. Long soon begins to stumble and fall. His legs can't keep running so he uses his arms instead. He makes it to the coast where he finds a blue VW camper. Fluorescent Moon, the hippy that owns the camper offers him a lift to America. There's a shot of a map of the world where we see the van go from Ireland to different points in America leaving a rainbow trail behind it. This is then followed by the Alien Monkeys. When we return to Mr. Long he's tired and his clothes are all torn, he's on his last legs. He retreats to a motel room. There's a moment where it seems he has lost them. But over his shoulder the room door slams open and in walk the Alien Monkeys/ The first weapon he finds is a pillow. He throws this at the aliens in desperation. The Aliens misunderstand this, they think this is the standard method of fighting on earth and begin to pummle and eventually overpower Mr. Long with pillows. Mr Long is held down by the aliens. One Alien arrives over with an Info Extractor 9000 to get the information needed to work the binoculars from his head. Just as it's about to be put on his head Delori gets a call. She tells her minions to hold up. She has an argument over the communicator. She clicks her fingers and points towards the door. All the aliens leave. Mr Long picks himself brushes himself off and begins the journey home with an alien ship flying into the sky. 

It's far from perfect or even good. But the point of the exercise was to show that the more substance and back story you add to a story the more interesting it becomes (at least... I think that was the point)