Script to Screen: Mind Maps





 I had the most fun planning this, but I did have some trouble deciding what to do with the microscope and I feel I would like a few more suggestions however I already have some ideas formed from doing this and feel confident enough to plan out a plot and story from using these. The prison I feel is the most flexible feature and the one I might mess with more in the story because it could be used metaphorically rather than the microscope which I feel some people might not know what it looks like. The bodybuilder I might play it safe and make it male so it fits the archetype better but play with what visually is a bodybuilder within the story to make it more interesting.





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  1. tutorphilJanuary 12, 2019 at 7:18 AM

    Hey Odin, God of Thunder... just me chipping in as inspired by your various maps above! My first impression here is that you've almost got somekind of Marvel-esque origin story here: it's common that men in prison spend a lot of time working out, so there you've got this immediate fit between your environment and your character; it's also a trope of superhero origin stories that a person is experimented on (sometimes against their will, sometimes as part of an undisclosed plan by 'them') - and what that those experiments ultimately result in some kind of super-power. Indeed, I'm pretty sure this is the origin story for Luke Cage!

    But... in terms of 'body-builders' I did think straight away of animals famous for their size-to-strength ratio - so ants/termites sprang to mind, and the idea that your story takes place on a microscopic level somehow?

    There's a classic structure here maybe of rivals - so two body-builders vying for some kind of strongest man competition - and how, in their respective efforts to win/cheat, things get more and more out of hand... ending up with someone/both of them going to jail...

    & this is a wild card; but the microscope again got me thinking about your story taking place at the cellular level, and I thought about 'stem cells' as being literal 'body-builders' - this is an animation after all... so maybe you could go in this sort of direction...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU7-qLo7GPo

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