Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The animatics
The creator's play animatics from Shanmugapriya Maruthapillai on Vimeo.
The below is a short sinopsis of my finalized story.
The Creators Play
>
> “The Creators Play” is an artistic interpretation on the journey of life
> inspired from some tenets of eastern philosophy including “Advaita” and
> “The Upanishads”. The purpose of this story is to illustrate the
> philosophy of self realization or surrendering to the greater force. An
> eastern philosophical belief is that an individual can become one with the
> greater force and attain a blissful state once he is devoid of all sins in
> the journey of life.
>
> The story starts with an assumption that the creation has already been
> made. A ball (planet) starts rolling and a hand that’s controlling the
> ball is pushing it. Inside the ball, the central characters of the story
> Shakthi , a young female and Shiva, a young male are stuck in a whirlpool.
> The whirlpool takes them into a river. The river represents the journey
> that Shakthi and Shiva need to take along with several others stuck in the
> whirlpool. The hand drops all of them stuck in the whirlpool in to the
> river with each one getting their own boat to sail.
>
> Every boat contains bags of sins incurred by the sailor. Bags of sins are
> representations of the results of bad karma. In eastern philosophy karma
> means action. All karmas have consequences in controlling life’s destiny.
> Bags of sins are accumulated at birth by getting some from the previous
> generation and from the result of bad karma done from birth until the
> present time.
>
> Individuals start sailing their boats and they throw one bag at a time in
> the river. Meanwhile there are some passing clouds that are delusive, all
> the clouds carry different kinds of Maya elements , that are objects of
> distraction, Maya means illusion. Some of the Maya elements include having
> unrealistic desires, amassing unnecessary wealth, immoral sex, vanity,
> vengeance. These eventually lead them to commit sins. The sins here are
> depicted as bag's , as the boat sails shiva and shakthi are tempted to
> collect more wealth, and so they raise their hands to collect the wealth
> from the passing clouds. But , all they accumulate is bag's of sins. when
> the people are unable to handle the amount of bag's, and when things go
> out of control , the boat capsizes, and the sailors fall inside the
> Whirlpool.
>
> The grater force picks up the people who fall into the whirlpool and puts
> them back in another person’s boat as a child. The child represents the
> rebirth/reincarnation of a person with sins after death. Reincarnation is
> another belief in some eastern philosophies.
>
> At some point of time in his journey Shiva meets Shakthi and she enters
> Shiva’s boat. They sail together. The journey continues as Shakthi and
> Shiva witness the things that are happening around them and continue to
> throw the bags in the river. On their way, they meet a person who's boat
> gets stuck on a rock, Shiva and Shakthi gracefully tries to help him, the
> boat gets released the person thanks Shiva and Shakthi. The person moves
> on, suddenly Shiva and Shakthi realize that some bags of sins reduce from
> their boat. This is due to their doing of Good Karma. It is also in the
> eastern belief that when a good karma is done their sins reduce.
>
> So they move on, and now the greater force pushes the boat that Shakthi
> and Shiva are in and they have a rocky ride. The boat falls from a very
> high water falls, representing the big change that is about to happen.
> Once the boat lands in the river, the greater force drops a child. This
> child is the rebirth of a person who fell in to the whirlpool. As a
> result some extra bags are added to the boat. The boat continues to sail
> as the baby grows. The baby gets his/her own boat when it becomes an
> adult and is separated from Shakthi and Shiva.( depicting some incidents
> that happen just like that without any reasons)
>
> Shakthi and Shiva continue to witness that the place around them is
> chaotic. There are now more people, with more bags and it is making their
> struggle worse. They try to throw the bags as fast as they could.But they
> could not take their eyes off Maya (illusion) elements as they wanted to
> see more of it.
> The Maya elements have not completely gone of their mind yet. So they
> worked really hard, and tried to push the maya elements, still the maya
> elements wont go. Now they concentrated really hard and they got a bow and
> arrow ( depicting, if we really concentrate and target the obstacle it can
> be tackled) , and so they used the bow and arrow to destroy the Maya
> elements.
>
> Finally the Maya elements were gone, and they found themselves in a very
> blissful place. Now as they are sailing they see the hands of the greater
> force appearing in front of them and starts pulling the boat towards it.
> Shakthi and Shiva surrender completely to the greater force and the
> greater force embraces both of them into itself.(Depicting the philosophy
> of , Man + Impurities = Man , Man - Impurities = God ).
>
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