This week we had to pick out a piece of art and create a short story of it. I picked out her work because the characters remind me of Disney’s show Gravity Falls. I have always been attracted to cartoons that incorporated the “scary factor”. Here is my spin off on her artwork.
Episode 1: First Day of School.
The white ghost drawn alarm rings a loud boo. Ana wakes up in surprise with a bright smile in her face. She get out of bed and ties her long black hair into a high ponytail. She puts on her favorite sweater. “Ana, hurry up you don’t want to be late to your first day of your new school ” her mother screams. Ana screams “I’m coming mother!”. She gathers her backpack and stuffs in her pencils and ghostbusters notebook. She heads to the kitchen has her breakfast and gets driven to school. Classes pass by with the usual boring subjects. During her science class she gets paired up with a girl named Stacy. Stacy has long orange locks with big thin glasses. It almost seems as she was hiding in her sweater. “Hi my name is Ana”, Ana says while enthusiastically extending her hand for hand shake, “how are you?”. Stacy quite shy keeps a quiet smile and extends her hand for a handshake, “I’m Stacy nice to meet you”. Although the girls appeared to be very different they seemed to compliment each other. When Ana took out her ghostbusters notebook, Stacy flinched. She said in a hushed tone, “You believe in ghosts?”. Ana replied, “Yes they are AWESOME!”. Stacy was not expecting that response. She explained that she saw them too but no one believed her. She explained that she was scared of them. Ana told her not to worry that she will introduce her to a friendly ghost named Chris after school. Hours later, they met up underneath the corner tree. They walked along to a park. Ana saw a glimpse of Chris and gave him a smirk. Chris zooms by and appears very quickly in front of Stacy. She screams! “Stacy this is Chris! I told him that he was going to meet my friend and was very eager to welcome you”. Ana shaking replies, “Wow nice to meet you. Promise you won’t sneak up on me like that anymore”. They go to the playground and play on the swings and slides. The girls get along just fine. Stacy is warming up to the idea that there are friendly ghosts. The girls walk home and agree to hangout after school everyday. Ana wants to teach Stacy how to better communicate with ghosts and be more confident in their encounters.
I imagined this as the start to a TV series or movie. I would begin the first episode/scene as the development of the friendship and introduction of the characters. The show will then be about Stacy’s ability to get better along with ghosts and face the drama of high school. These two girls will have each others back and with ghosts as their friends there is nothing anyone can do to hurt them. They must protect their secret of ghosts so that they can maintain the status quo to one day become prom queen. They don’t want to be labeled crazy. Through the series I would imagine how Stacy becomes more confident about her abilities, gains insight to the cliquy group and starts rejecting the idea of ghosts. Ana will have felt lost and betrayed but like most happy endings, Stacy will see that being popular and materialistic measure close to nothing when dealing with the power of friendship and trust. Happily Ever After!
linda 