Stage 2 thematic research

Grizzly tales for gruesome kids 

This video loosely relates to one of the characters from my story as they both share a theme of being trapped inside of something. The boy in this video is obsessed with computer games, so much so that he would later wish that he could live in cyber space and get away from his nagging parents. The boy eventually gets sent instruction over the internet from a mysterious figure named 'the post man' to scan his body into the computer and send it away in an email. Upon that happening the boy gets sucked into his computer monitor where he is greeted by his desktop interface, the interface scans him for virus's and then throws him into a pit of trojan worms so that the boy can be debugged before going into cyber space. The boy was stripped down to his bare essentials, an eye ball, two hands, a brain and a box of fluid to keep it all in. The boy would float around cyberspace with all the other 'brainboxes' and play whichever game he desires. A evil computer virus then attacks and the boy panics, he types in a code and the mysterious figure posts the boy back through his computer and into the real world, though the boy now looks as he did when he was in cyber space. His mother was not shocked to see his new form, in fact she was delighted as now she had him right where she wanted him, she would place him in a box of water away from his computer and would lock the door to prevent the cat from mistaking one of his eyeballs for a gold fish.  

This episode was particularly scary for me as the little boy was named Jack so in an odd way i felt as if i was the boy in the story. Jack loves to talk, he interrupts people all the time and never gives his tongue a rest, his parents got so annoyed with him that they decided something must be done to sort him out. They hire a creepy looking magician to maybe distract Jack with magic tricks so he might just shut up. The magician is also a puppeteer and he shows Jack some of his dummies, one of which talks without the old man helping it, the dummy then jumps out at Jack and tells him to not make the same mistake he once did. Jack ignores the warming and meets up at the magicians house for a free magic lesson, the man then makes a wooden jacket for Jack which acted as a small coffin for his body, Jack got changed into a puppet. Jacks parents came along the puppet in a store and bought it because it reminded them of their son who had been missing for weeks. The puppet was in fact Jack but he could not speak because his mouth was zipped shut.

In this episode of the Grizzly tales, a boy is obsessed with prank calling and is always on his phone. one day 'the gas man' phones the little boy and tries to sell him some helium with his key selling point being that the boy could potentially make the best prank calls ever as he could pretend to be an alien. The little boy had always dreamed of impersonating the queen for a prank call and buys the helium as he thinks that it will aid him in doing so. The boy soon realizes that helium soon wears off and is constantly inhaling the stuff to keep up his squeaky voice, the boy eventually floats off into space because of the mass helium intake and ends up on a satellite, his phone then dies and he can never make a prank call again.