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Story Development

Story Development
The Premise.
Passion drives a person to extremes.
Being true to your values defines your actions.
Negative actions have consequences.
To be compassionate under different expectations.

LOG LINE - Passion drives a person to extremes.
- When a zoo gets new animals a hunter free's them to begin the greatest hunt ever
- A Hunter decides to fight large animals with only a pair of handcuffs
- A Person is arrested after hunting people in a safari

LOG LINE - Being true to your values defines your actions.
- A hunter under Expectations from his family decides to let a captured animal go.
- A hunter tracks down big foot but after seeing it with its family decides not the spread its existence to the world
- A whaler decides to save his friend over capturing a big prize.

LOG LINE - Negative actions have consequences.
- A Hunter is arrested in the desert after trying to hunt animals
- After a failed whaling mission a hunter deals with the loss of his crew and friends.

LOG LINE - To be compassionate under different expectations.
- A hunter is tracking animals down before its realised he only wants to take pictures of the animals
- A hunter finds a lock monster only to give it access to the ocean

A hunter under Expectations from his family decides to let a captured animal go.
Step Outline 1.
- Ape caught
- Ape Loaded
- Small boat on return
- No food
- Ape helps fish
- Hunter doesn't catch anything
- Ape Shares Food
- Ape saves hunter from ocean
- Ape wants to go home
- Man wants to see his family
- man lets ape go
- man heads home alone with new supplies

Step Outline 2.
- Ape caught
- Ape loaded
- hunter looks at contract
- SNAP
- Cage rips off
- Hunter panics
- Ape still on boat
- picture fly's of edge
- hunter catches it and starts to fall off
- Ape breaks chains to save the man
- Hunter looks at picture
- Sees chains are broken

- turns the ship around.

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