Chosen Story Outline - Major Film

Story Outline

The original outline for the story, where the werewolf and the zombie fought over the baby who in the end turned out to be a monster hunter, felt to cumbersome for the animation I wanted to do. With three characters, I felt that there would be to many characters on screen and too much happening at one time. I decided to redo the story from scratch, though kept the theme of an interaction between a monster and a young child. The zombie won out against the werewolf as the number of things I could do with the character where greater and provided me with more laughs when I began writing up a gag list.

The premise of the story is, what if a mother was too cheap to hire a real babysitter, so hired a zombie instead? The question why, is simple. The mother is desperate for a night out, but is cheap. The advertisement for babysitters at "Scarily Cheap Prices!" and the zombie is the only monster in the book willing to work brains and not money.

Summary

The scenes opens onto a dilapidated house on a hill in the woods. The camera pans into the under window of the house and into the room of a toddler. The mother appears and lowers the child in her arms into the crib and steps away, turning off the lights as she leaves. Downstairs the mother looks through babysitter profiles with 'Scarily cheap Prices' on the front of the folder. She sorts through the various monsters showcased, but settles on the zombie. She runs up the company and the scene jumps to the hallway as the camera trucks up to the door, when a knock taps on the door. The door is opened to reveal the zombie. He waves nervously as the mother rushes by him and pushes him inside, slamming the door behind her. The zombie is left standing in the hall, when the baby begins to cry. The zombie panics, fumbling up the stairs and enters the baby's room.

The zombie tries to calm the baby by playing peek-a-boo, but he opens his eyes to much and they fall out, making the baby cry even harder. The child grows more distressed and the zombie pick it up, rocking it up and down to try and calm the child. It does nothing, and the child begins to flail, knocking the zombie's head off. The head bounces across the room, coming to a stop as it bags into the far wall. The zombie finds the baby laughing at him as his body comes to pick up the head. Cradled in his own arm, the zombie talks to the baby through moans and groans, and convinces the child to sleep. After the baby falls a, he puts his head back in place and turns to walk out, but trips and falls. His head comes tumbling off once more and he panics as it bounces to the stairs.