Animatic version 1 (without sound)

The Red Herring...

A few treasures from the oracle...

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If ur gonna use a red herring like this, then might as well go all the way to mislead and subvert audience expectations

so, forget abt making it the pet, your storyboard with the barking dog sound good and logical now, ie the dog is barking because it's not a pet, its a scruffy street mongrel hauled back to be fattened as a macabre/cheap version of meatloaf

now you work your narrative on 2 parallel levels:

(1) you have your butcher fatten the poor unsuspecting mongrel (up to this point mistaken as a pet by audience) for the kill;

(2) you as the director-writer fatten your unsuspecting audience for the kill 

so picking up from your original storyboard, go for the macguffin after the "pet feeding-*pet*pet* good dog" cliched moment of affectionate bonding and stroking

(1) do a cut-away shot to something seemingly unrelated (cld be environment, storm outside abating etc); (2) camera slowly pulling out to re-establishment (3) slow fade to black

basically u PLAY UP to the audience's stereotype or expectations of nice warm fuzzy ending, except this is a false ending

u need to pace very carefully here, basically it shud slow down enuff to lull audience into a false sense of security-some editors will tell u pacing shud slow to mimic human breathing 

(commando friends have told me that is exactly how they kill chicken with their bare hands in the jungle, u must stroke your animal affectionately...slowly...until their breathing becomes slow and relaxed....then they twist the head off in one gesture.)

I know cos I am vegetarian

then sharp sound of cleaver slash

CUT TO: aftermath of slaughter etc 

basically the dog didn't see it coming, and neither shud the audience

u dun even need to show butcher eating fattened pet (that's stating the obvious + there's unspoken screen taboo abt death of animals and children in film, ie it evokes v strong neg aud reactions. implied is gd enuff.)

mebbe the last shot shud be a recipe book open to the page on How to Make Christmas MeatLoaf? I dunno 

subtle but clear enuff 

Story Version 1.1

Alternate story directions:

• The pet animal is food, in a cage waiting to be slaughtered...
• The pet animal is from the outside, a wild creature trespassing into the house...
• Chef/butcher eats the fattened pet animal after all..

Script 1.0

The theme will revolve around Stereotyping and Stigmatization. Medium will be 3D, style will be hyper-realistic caricature.
referances:
Fallen Art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HMz1WKkso&feature=fvw
Ark:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tch8mHk81ug
The Cathedral: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8GyHvBogrI
Sebastian's Voodoo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ePWK0qfisE&feature=related


Story v1.0

1. Setting: Gloomy, stormy night, establishing shot of hut on a hill
2. Slowly zoom in to lit window, noise and activity going on inside. (thumping and clanging)
3. Pan around messy kitchen, dirty pots and pans, assorted utensils especially knives hanging off wall.
4. Focus on Cleaver stuck in chopping board, grubby hand unsticks it violently.
5. Hands furiously at work, chopping, dicing, smashing
6. slowly reveal chef/butcher
7. Thunder claps outside as storm starts to intensify, a animal bark draws focus to a adorable pet animal.
8. Back shot of chef/butcher working furiously, pet animal running around his feet barking and yelping at the rain/thunderclaps/lightning flash
9. Chef/butcher gets increasingly annoyed, with the chopping, thunder, and incessant noise of the pet animal.
10. noise reaches cacophony, Chef/butcher snaps.
11. POV pet animal, Big hands grabbing it
12. pet animal wimpers and yelps as butcher/chef ties a sack up
13. browses through his hanging utensils, lifts a heavy two handed club
14. raises it up and smashes the sack. stunned silence
15. reaches into the sack and tastes some red goo
16. licks his lips in approval
17. scoops some pieces and goo from the sack and pours a mountain of it into a pet feeding bowl
18. pet animal perks up behind the mountain of food and digs in with gusto
19. chef/butcher sighs in content and tickles his pet behind the ears
20. sits down on a stool at a table and tucks in to a drumstick, bones and all.
21. The End
    

Other versions:
Brings sack out onto railway track to get smashed.
Eats the pet after stuffing it full of food.

Comments on this version
Punchline revealed too fast if framing is not right
Too long drawn?
Punchline weak
cliché

Objectives:
I want the audience to stereotype the butcher chef based on his environment and home. The image i have is an obese, grubby, creature
that will portray a self-centered and indulgent character that is probably violent and detested by society. The plot reveals that appearances
are not what it seems as he has a kind heart and love for his pet hence reversing the audience's labelling in the first 2 minutes at the end.