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Final 7 Sentence Story

1. Character opens up refrigerator as his morning habit.
2. He sits down in his entertainment dome after making a snack.
3. Once he begins to watch TV he hears a loud banging on the door.
4. He becomes very nervous and attempts to drown out the sound by turning his music up
5. The neighbor refuses to go away, brining out paranoia in the character. He again turns up the volume.
6. The house begins to shake at its foundation and before the character can react his house crumbles around him.
7. He is forced to be outside for the first time in years and realizes that he was missing so much in his life by being consumed by television.

Group and Self Premises

Group B: Man whose job is boring until an interesting package arrives.

1. A janitor is cleaning a company employees desk off late at night.
2. He notices a package on the side of the desk, it is rather large.
3. The janitor, being curious, opens the package.
4. He discovers inside the package a series of photos of one in particular person.
5. He searches further and discovers that person is the same person in all the pictures on the employees desk.
6. He discovers a huge amount of money in the bottom of the package and realizes this is a murder for hire package.
7. He quickly alerts the authorities and they reward him with enough money that he can quit his job and move somewhere nice.

My Own Premise : A man is told about a book with secrets that, if discovered will make
him famous.

1. A man is chatting with an old friend he hasn’t seen in awhile.
2. The friend is discussing a book that he has heard about, secrets in it so large that if proven will make him rich and famous.
3. The main character is intrigued and soon convinces himself that he will find this become and make his wildest dreams come true.
4. The man searches everywhere, going to obscure, rare print bookstores, searching the internet endlessly, and going to libraries around the county.
5. The man soon realizes that the book may not exist at all and he has wasted years of his life searching for it, losing his job along the way.
6. The character is chatting with a bunch of old friends, discussing the man that told the main character about the secret book.
7. They start laughing hysterically when the main character tell them about the story he was told, saying to him that is a practical joke he has told for ages.

Mindmap

Final Story

The story begins as the main character "Cacci" opens up the refrigerator door. His gigantic eyes begin moving around rapidly to find something that he likes. He finds nothing. Cacci moves around very awkwardly due to the fact that his legs are abnormally small compared to his huge mid-section. Cacci makes it to the couch where his illustrious entertainment center is revealed. The character watches the television for hours without leaving; his daily routine. He turns it on to a music channel where there enormous amounts of bass emitting from his speakers. His neighbors begin to yell, but Cacci is unaffected and continues to turn the volume up. This in turn causes his neighbor to become infuriated and knock on Cacci's front door. Cacci has panic in his eyes and his fear of the outside world becomes apparent to the audience. At this point Cacci shrinks lower into the seat to avoid being seen. He also turns to volume up to dangerous levels to drown out the knocking. By turning it up to maximum levels, Cacci unknowingly causes the foundation of his house to shake. The shaking becomes more violent as the current volume is sustained. Cacci realizes what is happening a second before the houses abruptly collapses around him. He is forced to view the outside world around him. As he looks around he realizes what he has been missing out on. He sees beautiful, vibrant colors around him. His fear turns to joy as he smiles for the first time in many years.

Character Animation Research

Ladybugs (also called lady birds or lady beetles) are small, oval-shaped winged insects. These shiny insects are usually red with black spots or black with red spots on the wing covers. The number of spots identifies the type of ladybug. Most ladybugs are less than 1/4 inch (4-8 mm) long. As ladybugs age, the spots fade. There are about 5,000 different species of ladybugs throughout the world. A common species is the two-spotted ladybug (pictured above); it is orange-red with two black spots. These tiny predators (Family Coccinellidae) are helpful in gardens because they eat many garden pests (like mealy bugs and aphids). Birds are the major predator of the ladybug. When not flying, the wings are covered by a pair of modified wings (called elytra). When flying, the elytra open up. Like all insects, ladybugs have: 6 jointed legs (black), two antennae (black), and an exoskeleton made of chitin (a material similar to our hair and fingernails). Their three-part body consists of a head (with the mouthparts, eyes, and antennae), thorax (where the legs and wings attach), and the abdomen (containing the reproductive and most of the digestive organs).

Coccinellidae is a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds (British English, Australian English, South African English), ladybugs (North American English) or lady beetles (preferred by scientists). The word "lady" in the name is thought to allude to the Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic faith [citation needed]. The family name comes from its type genus, Coccinella. Coccinellids are found worldwide, with over 5,000 species described, more than 450 native to North America alone. Coccinellids are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, head and antennae. A very large number of species are mostly or entirely black, gray, or brown, however, and may be difficult for non-entomologists to recognize as coccinellids (and, conversely, there are many small beetles that are easily mistaken as such, like tortoise beetles).
They are considered useful insects as many species feed on aphids or scale insects, which are pests in gardens, agricultural fields, orchards, and similar places. Because they are useful, colourful, and harmless to humans, coccinellids are typically considered appealing even by people who hate most insects,[POV] though a few species are pests in North America and Europe. Some people consider seeing them or having them land on one's body to be a sign of good luck to come, and that killing them presages bad luck.
Biology
Coccinellids are typically predators on Hemiptera such as aphids and scale insects, though members of the subfamily Epilachninae are herbivores, and can be very destructive agricultural pests (e.g., the Mexican bean beetle). They are also known to eat certain plants and crops when no other food is present, making them a possible pest to farmers and gardeners. While they are often used as biological control agents, introduced species of ladybugs (such as Harmonia axyridis or Coccinella septempunctata in North America) can outcompete and displace native coccinellids, and become pests in their own right.
Coccinellids are often brightly coloured to ward away potential predators. This defense works because most predators associate bright colours (especially orange and black or yellow and black) with poison and other unpleasant properties. This phenomenon is called aposematism. In fact, most coccinellids are indeed poisonous to smaller predators, such as lizards and small birds; however, a human would have to eat several hundred coccinellids before feeling any effects.[citation needed] Adult coccinellids are able to reflex-bleed hemolymph from their leg joints, releasing their oily yellow toxin with a strong repellent smell. This becomes quite obvious when one handles a coccinellid roughly.
Most Coccinellids mate in the spring or summer, and the female lays a cluster of eggs (numbering from a few to a few hundred, depending on species) as near as possible to an aphid colony. In most species these eggs hatch into a larval state within a week. This state lasts 10–15 days, and they then go into a pupal stage before becoming an adult coccinellid. The entire life cycle of the Coccinellid is only 4–7 weeks. Most ladybird species are univoltine, producing only one generation a year, although some are bivoltine.
Coccinellids lay extra infertile eggs with the fertile eggs. These appear to provide a backup food source for the larvae when they hatch. The ratio of infertile to fertile eggs increases with scarcity of food at the time of egg laying.[1]
Some species are migratory and form large aggregations during the migratory period. They also form large aggregations when they go into hibernation in winter.[2]

Habitats
Most coccinellids are beneficial to gardeners in general. In the spring, one could usually find a ladybug in a vegetable garden feeding on aphids. As in many insects, ladybugs in temperate regions enter diapause during the winter. Some species (e.g., Hippodamia convergens) gather into groups and move to higher land, such as a mountain, to enter diapause. Ladybugs are usually found where aphids or scale insects are, and they lay their eggs near their prey, to increase the likelihood the larvae will find the prey easily. Since aphids and scale insects occur nearly everywhere in the world, ladybugs are also cosmopolitan.

Coccinellids as household pests
Although native species of coccinellids are typically considered benign, in North America the Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), introduced in the twentieth century to control aphids on agricultural crops, has become a serious household pest in some regions owing to its habit of overwintering in structures. It is similarly acquiring a pest reputation in Europe, where it is called the "Harlequin Ladybird" (see main article "Asian lady beetle" for discussion).

Revised Seven Sentence Story

1. Character wakes up and goes straight to the television.
2. He sits in front of the television and hears outside noises from his nearby window.
3. Character appears frustrated and turns his gigantic speaker system up.
4. Neighbors from outside yell at character to turn the volume down.
5. There is a knock on his front door, but character locks up and audience realizes he is agoraphobic.
6. Character turns volume up to a maximum level, shaking the foundation of his house.
7. The house completely collapses around the main character and forces the character to live normally again and faces his fears of the outside.