SCRIPTFRENZY + plot help, please!
Perhaps stupidly, I signed up for script frenzy this year, as I decided to back out of nano last november.
I'm writing a screenplay for an animated film that I once envisaged actually making with puppets myself, and now kind of consider trying a hand at animating a much shorter version of. (If I am insane, anyway.)
the basic plot: a FAIRY TALE FAERY TAIL.
Faeries are typically born without tails, but this one is born with a tail. He/she/it is raised trying to hide the deformity until no longer able, and is then abandoned on an island. And Island of freaks and monsters. Except s/he/it meets another faery on the island, same age and similar looking. Who turns out to be a goblin, born without a tail, and dumped on the island. Also they meet hideous monsters who are just plain lovely/crazy. The two kids plan their own parent trap and do a switcheroo, heading back to the other's home and finally fitting in. except of course they don't and yadda yadda things go bad then turn good and they all learn a lesson and have a dance party the end.
MY MAJOR QUESTIONs AT THE MOMENT:
GENDER: Should my Goblins and Faeries have genders? They are born in lerp-like gooey dew drops on the 'Family Tree' and not from the usual sexual reproduction, so I see no need for gender. When I first watched WALLE I thought the robots were ungendered and I was blown away and in love with the idea, then I realised they were gendered and felt disappointed. Why the need??! If they aren't gendered will the audience gender them anyway? Will they gender the two species, making faeries female and goblins male or vise versa?
PARENTS: Ought there to be two parents in a family? If I remove the need to pair up in order to reproduce, should they still fall in love and pair? Would it be too strange to have a society that only ever has single parents? Would I be limiting myself (dialogue and plot wise) to only have opne parent deciding the fate of the children?
halp pleas!