Off the bat (like one out of hell (which is quite fitting for our subject matter)) we knew what the genre was gonna be, hell I knew what the genre was gonna be before I even got in a group, my favorite genre for anything, dark or black comedy. Dark comedies are great, they make you feel like the world around you has lost it's mind while still having room to take itself seriously.
While researching dark comedy I found this great article called What Is Dark Comedy And How To Master It, Now I have a few funny bones shaking around inside of me so I knew a lot about this, but it covers the main characteristics that make dark comedy comedic. The main thing to focus on is the social commentary aspect, something that we want to focus on heavily on our short.
To cut the short short, the plot will focus on a character who is power hungry giving up their humanity for control of the world through satanism, it's a pretty obvious metaphor, Otto, the main charcter, uses the power of religion to fufill her own personal desires while being manipulated by someone who wants something out of her, it's a critique of religion and of the people who see it as a means to grow their status. We'll make jokes throughout the whole thing that play into how ridiculous the situation that Otto - someone dissatisfied with her lack of power through christianity and turns to satan - is in. One joke I had in mind was having Otto putting up these ridiculous flyers with incredibly satanic imagery with text surrounding it talking about salvation of the soul and what-not.
Not too sure what image to attach to this so I'll just put a drawing of a pentagram I made, that seems quite fitting.
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