PROJECT NAME: INTRODUCING REV AND LID
TREATMENT
This 2D animation will introduce Rev and Lid. Rev and Lid are two main characters that I plan to use in educational videos at a later stage. Rev is a characterization of a motorbike and Lid is a characterization of a motorbike helmet. Rev and Lid travel around inside various theories. The theories are their countryside. Working
STORY SPINE
Rev meets up with Lid at the Bike Shed. They discuss their previous journeys. That includes Kant’s Phenomena and Noumena, Hegel, Plato’s Forms and criticism of art, Aristotle’s teleology and Saussure. Rev and Lid leave the Bike Shed to go and see more of Saussure.
SCRIPT
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The scene opens with Rev riding towards the Bike Shed. There is travelling music playing in the background. Rev enters the Bike Shed and meets up with Lid who is sitting at the desk reading a travel guide.
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Inside the Bike Shed
Rev (to Lid) ‘Hi Lid, What’s up?’
Lid (to Rev) ‘I’m just planning our next trip’.
Rev (to Lid) ’Give us a look’. ‘Remember when we visited Kant’?
Lid (to Rev) ‘Yes we visited the Phenomena and Noumena there’.
Lid (to Rev) ‘What’s the noumena then?
Rev (to Lid) ‘It’s the world that is unsensed and unorganized by us. It’s how it is before our senses and our mind packages it into the phenomena’.
Lid (to Rev) ‘If we don’t sense it and our minds don’t organize it how can we know it’s there?’
Lid (to Rev) ‘Hegel didn’t think it was’.
Rev (to Lid) ‘Hegel didn’t like Kant’s distinction between the phenomena and noumena’.
Lid (to Rev) ‘Kant wasn’t the only unliked person on our travels. Plato didn’t think much of us when we visited there’.
Lid (to Rev) ‘Plato said we were twice removed from reality’.
Rev (to Lid) ‘I don’t understand that’.
Lid (to Rev) ‘The person who drew us used their real motorbike and helmet as models’.
Rev (to Lid) ‘So, we are copies of the real motorbike and helmet’.
Lid (to Rev) ‘That’s right. But the real motorbike and helmet are only copies of ideal forms of a motorbike and helmet’.
Rev (to Lid) ‘So if the really real motorbike and helmet are ideal forms, then the motorbike and helmet models are copies of them.
Lid (to Rev) ‘And we are copies of that. So, we are twice removed from the ideal forms
Rev (to Lid) ‘Cheer up Lid. At least Aristotle liked us when we visited there’.
Lids (to Rev) ‘Aristotle said we had a goal – a purpose. That’s what he meant by teleology’. Tele comes from the greek word for goal, purpose or end. And ology just means the study of something. So teleology means the study of goals or purposes’
Rev (to Lid) ‘What’s our goal?’
Lid (to Rev) ‘To travel’.
Rev (to Lid) ‘So where are we going today?’.
Lid (to Rev) ‘We haven’t been to Saussure yet’
Rev (to Lid) ‘Are there many attractions there?’
Lid (to Rev) ‘Yeah look at all this stuff’
Lid (to Rev) ‘Look at all those places. Semiotics, signifier and signified, diachronic and synchronic linguistics etc.
Rev (to Lid) ‘So what are we waiting for’
Lid and Rev ‘Lets take off’.