Thanks a lot for your feedback and ideas. I took your input and here are my ideas so far.
STORY 1
WORKING TITLE: Tricks for Treats
SETTING: Guy’s back yard
TIME: Summer day and goes on into the evening
PROTAGONISTS: A young guy and his smart dog
GOAL 1: The guy wants to teach his dog really cool tricks to show off to his friends and family
GOAL 2: The dog wants to eat the treat
GENRE: Comedy
PITCH:
We open with the dog owner looking at a Dog training book. We see a shot of the book cover. It guarantees to teach the dog the incredible somersault trick! The owner opens the book to the incredible somersault trick and rubs his hands together in expectation. There is a funny drawing of a command and a clipart dog doing the summersault trick.
The owner then turns to the dog with a treat in his hand. The dog gets super excited seeing the treat and starts trying to please the owner. The owner starts giving the new command and the dog starts attempting tricks... first he sits… the owner shakes his head and tries again. The dog lifts his paws and dances… the owner shakes his head again and shows the dog the book picture… we can see he is getting annoyed… the dog continues to do tricks and the owner continues to show the book, each time more frustrated, his hair disheveled… the dog laying down... rolling over... the dog is obviously confused and has never seen this command before each time give the owner a more quizzical look. Fade out...
Time has gone by... the shadows have changed... the sky is turning orange... by now the owner is tired, hunched over... tired of trying... he's obviously been trying this for hours.... yet the dog is still super excited… still looking at that treat.
Finally he gives up and throws the treat in the air as he turns around to leave. It is then when the dog in trying to catch the treat, jumps up in the air and does the incredible somersault trick. Landing on his feet and lays down to eat his bone. Fade to black and the credits roll.
MORAL: Patience is a virtue.
HUMOR IDEAS:
The owner could also try to perform the trick himself landing on his head. The dog could be smart and actually be playing the owner making fun of him and at the end laugh to himself while eating the treat and wink at the camera.
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STORY 2
WORKING TITLE: Light as Air
SETTING: Guy’s garage
TIME: Daytime on a weekend
PROTAGONIST: A self-conscious young guy that has a crush on the girl next door
PARTNER: Guy’s dog, always wants to play with his favorite toy
OBJECT OF DESIRE: Girl next door
GOAL: The guy wants to show off his manliness to attract the girl
GENRE: Comedy
PITCH:
We open with a thin skinny guy is in his garage, garage door open. We see that his dog is by his side looking up at him with a dog toy in his mouth… The dog pushes the toy towards the owner but he does not even look down. The guys attention is focused on something across the street. We see a camera angle of his point of view and realize he sees a girl across the street listening to some music. He looks up and thinks... there is a flashback.
We see a strong guy at the gym curling a dumbbell with 100 lbs. written on it. An excited girl is looking at him lift. Flashback ends.
The skinny guy looks down at his muscles and his arm looks pretty sad and he kicks a black ball that was lying on the floor next to him and his dog. A bell goes off and he gets an idea. He picks up the black ball and looks at it... Fade out…
The next thing we see is him walking past his dog and sitting on a bench right outside his garage. He has a dumbbell on the floor that looks peculiarly like the ball he had kicked earlier but now it has the words 100 lbs. written on it. He picks it up and with the same pose and expression as the guy in his flashback starts doing some curls.
He puts it down, making sure he fakes how heavy it is, wipes his brow, and waves to the girl next door.
We then see the dog who is chewing on his toy look at the dumbbell and we hear the familiar bell sound… the dog now gets an idea. He sees one big toy instead of a dumbbell.
He drops his toy, and walks over the dumbbell, picks it up with his mouth, and runs off with it... The guy looks down at the dog, looks back at the girl all embarrassed and chases after the dog.
Credits roll.
MORAL: You should not try to act like something you’re not.
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STORY 3
WORKING TITLE: Pumped
SETTING: Joe’s Gym
TIME: Daytime
PROTAGONISTS: A pumped up strong guy that loves to do bench presses and curling and a thin lanky character that is insecure about his image
GOAL: The guys want to show off how much they can lift
GENRE: Comedy
PITCH:
We open up with a shot of the outside of a location… in big corny letters it says… Joe's Gym. Then we see the inside of the gym and our main character has come into the scene and is looking all insecure… he goes to take the heaviest dumbbell and cannot even move it. He takes the second one and it’s still too heavy. He resigns himself toe the smallest dumbbell and does a couple of curls.
It is then that a really bulky strong guy comes in and takes the heaviest dumbbell, the 100 lbs one, and starts curling like nothing.
The skinny guy quickly puts the small weight down and goes to the leg press machine… he’s better at this one and puts in 100 lbs… the strong guy is waiting nearby for the leg press machine.
He starts doing some leg presses and finally finishes, gets up tired and leaves screen right.
The strong guy then comes over to the machine and looks a little impressed… he looks left and right to make sure nobody is looking… and puts the weight down to 20 lbs… the strong guy has really small weak legs.
Roll credits
After the credits we see the strong guy sitting in the leg press machine but his feet do not reach the foot platform. It seems his this machine is also not made for his body type.
MORAL: Even the most confident guys can have their own insecurities.
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STORY 4
WORKING TITLE: Rules
SETTING: House living room, bedroom and dinning room
TIME: Daytime
PROTAGONIST: A guy’s dog
ANTAGONIST: A guy’s cat
SUPPORTING ROLE: The owner
GOAL: The dog wants to have liberty to do as he wants
GENRE: Comedy
PITCH:
We open in the living room of this guy’s apartment. We see the dog jumping on the couch and the owner reprimanding him for it and scolding him, he’s not allowed on the sofa. We then see the dog, turning to look at the family cat who is sitting comfortably on the back of the owner’s chair.
Next we fade to the bedroom where the dog is told he is not allowed in the closet, but again he turns to look at the cat who is sleeping on the owners pillow this time.
Finally it moves to the kitchen, where the dog is told not to beg for food- however the cat appears to be walking across the kitchen table sampling food as he goes.
We then go the next scene where the dog is in a costume shop and he is buying a costume from the dog clerk. (a cat costume!)
MORAL: Life is unfair
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STORY 5
WORKING TITLE: Microdog
SETTING: Scientific lab, 3 coffee shop exteriors, coffee shop
TIME: Daytime
PROTAGONIST: A smart and awkward scientist
PARTNER: The scientist’s dog
ANTAGONIST: The coffee store signs
GOAL: The scientist wants to be able to have a cup of coffee in the company of his best friend
GENRE: Comedy
PITCH:
We open with a scientist looking over his new invention. It looks like a ray gun of sorts and it is on his lab table. He makes the last adjustment and is happy to be done. He wants to go for a cup of coffee. He looks at his dog that is sitting next to him and motions him to come.
Next scene they are walking towards the corner. They look at the door and see a sign “No dogs allowed”. They continue on and go to the next coffee shop “No dogs allowed”. They go on to the next location, another sign. Fade out.
They are back at the lab and the scientist looks at his ray gun and back at the dog. He decides that he needs to test it anyways and shoots at the dog… who shrinks to a tiny size. He puts his hand out and the dog jumps on. He then scoops the dog into a matchbox and the scene fades out.
The next scene we see the scientist sipping on his coffee at the coffee shop and the micro-dog happily eating a crumb on the table next to the matchbox.
Credits Roll
MORAL: Its nice when your inventions find good uses in your own life.
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