Rough Outline #1

I'm interested in trying to look at the role of masking and the effect it has on identity. i created a story that takes away the identity of a character and replaces it with the mask identity. In the story, i chose for it to effect the characters in the background so that it changes how the city interacts with itself. This also places the main character, who is unaffected, outside of the identity crisis, which in turn creates this identity paradox: a masked hero with a dual identity in a city of people with an imposed identity.

SYNOPSIS: Superhero saves citizens from identity stealing robots during a Halloween like festival.

I. Hero Patrols City

A. We open with a shot of the superhero surveying the city from a roof top. She then begens to explore the city from the roofs and makes her way down into the city streets where we can see that is a festival with many people wearing masks, which allows her to blend in.

B. A parade of floats and costumed people moves through the streets as the hero looks on.


II. Bots attack

A. Suddenly one of the floats explodes and several bots run into the crowd. The bots touch a victim to steal that persons identity while the victim takes on the identity of the mask he or she is wearing. The parade and festival goers begin to interact with each other much differently.

B. The hero fights and destroys a few of the bots and the stolen identities are automatically restored to the owner. The remaining bots flee and the hero gives chase.

C. The bots regroup under a radio tower and send out a signal. the ground shakes and the tower rises up revealing a giant robot with many faces emerging from the ground. The robot steps on the smaller bots and attacks the hero.


III. Hero defeats Robot

A. The robot activates a vaccuum like weapon and begins to steal all of the identities of the citizens in the immediate area while physically attacking the hero

B. the hero dodges a punch and gets the robot's hand stuck in the ground. she runs up the robots arm, but it manages to free itself and attempts to shake her off which temporarily stops its identity vacuum.

C. the hero manages to make her way inside and deactivate the robot thereby saving the day. All the citizens' identities return.

D. Elsewhere, a darkened figure broods at his failure