STORY AND PLOT

In the beginning I was trying to think up a story using the drawings I had already done as reference.

The very first story featured all three characters, the troll, the deer and the faungirl and the main action would happen in a clear much like the one in The Troll and the Deer, as seen in the first post. Here I was still thinking of the faungirl as the main character and the plot would follow her lost in the forest looking for her adoptive mother, consequently leading her to a meet up with the troll.

A perspective test looking down in the forest. The faun girl would be wandering about here

A mock-up screenshot for the first plot idea

At some point, I let go of the faun girl and thought of a setting with a very different, much darker nature to it. It followed the deer being chased down by a couple of wolves. As the deer was close to being caught the troll appeared and killed the wolves. Thinking the troll just saved her, the deer approached him not knowing that he merely eliminated the predators that were on his way of capturing his dinner.

After this, I went back to the original idea of making a more easy going story, where the troll wasn't as menacing as expected. Eventually I let go of the deer and for a while tried to come up with something that would involve the troll saving the faungirl from certain doom.


Lastly, after many considerations, I ended up letting go of the whole idea of the story and coming up with something new. Now, instead of having the troll and the faungirl meeting up by mere chance, I decided that there would be something linking the two that would bring them together. Seeing as both characters have similar backgrounds, there is the chance that, in a way or another, they can relate to each other. The faungirl sees in the troll the endearing side he has, and hence, a protective figure she lacks after losing her parents; and the troll sees himself in the faungirl, from when his whole species was extincted from the forest and he was left alone as a child.
In the plot of the short film I will be producing, the side of the troll is the one that I'll focus on, but I always like to have an idea of the motivation of all the characters, even if in the end it won't be important for the audience to be aware of.