As a group we looked though a few scripts and decided upon a couple that we wanted to use. Yasmine Coles and Mark Gingells scripts were of particular interest to us but decided to pick Myles Mccauliffe's script and adapt it a lot so it wasn't so hard to produce. Myles original idea was based around a Taxidermist, who created a new animal by sewing two animals together. The main character then photographed his creating and posted it online, where it was discovered by National Geographic who were interesting in investigating the new animal. The protagonist fools them and they are interested in showcasing the 'Hippophant' and making him a very rich man, the money and fame takes over but in the end he is found out. We wanted to take the basic storyline but change it so that the creation was easy for us to produce yet still was interesting to watch.
Once we knew we wanted to turn Myles script into our own creation we took the time to speak to Myles about what he wanted form the film. We told him that we were going to move away from the idea of a new animal creation but he then gave us a website to help if we did to decide to stick with it. http://www.headsandtails.co.uk. We investigated the website but decided we wanted to change the creation of the main character. It didn't take long for us to come to a decision that a hangover cure would be something easy to produce and interesting to film and as it was a student project it seemed like an appealing creation to the set audience.
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