Friday, May 25, 2007

Status per May 25 2007



Lydia and the magician are interviewed by a journalist of a local newspaper while Stijn still searches for the lion tamer. Lydia is the only one talking and the journalist doesn’t get the opportunity to ask any questions. He takes some pictures and starts writing down Lydia’s story in his notebook. The boss of the circus realizes he can no longer wait for the lion tamer. He signals and the lions are directed into their cage in the circus ring. His wife enters the ring and announces the lions act. She ends with “please welcome our famous lion tamer, the best lion tamer you can find in the northern hemisphere…”. Normally the lion tamer would enter the cage at this exact moment and direct the lions to their spot in the cage. This time however, no lion tamer enters the cage… The wife of the boss of circus tries again. The audience is getting impatient and slowly clapping their hands. The lions are roaring wild. They are not going to sit on their usual spot. After a third and unsuccessful attempt to announce the lion tamer the boss of the circus realizes he has to do something. Lydia and the magician have to do their act without the assistance of the lion tamer this time. He walks into the rings and with some self confidence tells: “Ladies and gentlemen, tonight we are going to do things a little different, even more spectacular as we even did before. Ladies and gentlemen enjoy our new lions show!”. The journalist takes pictures of a cage with wild animals but without a lion tamer: those pictures would certainly make the circus look bad when published in the papers. When Stijn and Els have arrived in the tent, Lydia and her magician walk into the circus ring. The magician starts his performance by waving his hands and his long cape in the air. The audience rewards them with a huge applause. The lions become even more wild from the waving and the applause, they are still not sitting on their usual spot and are roaring wild.

Film so far (17 min 34 sec)

Up until now there are 14 finished chapters:

Chapter 1: "Love of a monkey" (1 min 06 sec)


Chapter 2: "What a body" (1 min 31 sec)


Chapter 3: "What a show off" (1 min 29 sec)


Chapter 4: "Bla bla bla" (1 min 56 sec)


Chapter 5: "A secret?" (2 min 04 sec)


Chapter 6: "Incredible" (0 min 48 sec)


Chapter 7: "What is in the box?" (1 min 00 sec)


Chapter 8: "What does she want?" (0 min 41 sec)


Chapter 9: "Is she a witch?" (1 min 54 sec)


Chapter 10: "She is lying!" (1 min 47 sec)


Chapter 11: "Restless lions" (0 min 40 sec)


Chapter 12: "Lights on" (0 min 42 sec)


Chapter 13: "Let me do it" (0 min 42 sec)


Chapter 14: "You can feel it" (1 min 06 sec)

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Status per May 20 2007



During the break of tonight’s show the boss of the circus has to decide: the lion tamer has still not arrived in the circus tent and what to do with the act of the lions without his lion tamer. He speaks about his dilemma with his wife and the other strong men. Stijn and Els are sitting in a quite corner of the tent and they are worried. Lydia arrives dressed in her fancy cape. “I am going to do the act myself without the lion tamer. I’ll enter the cage, no problem”, she says. “I don’t need that sissy of a lion tamer for my act”. The boss of the circus hesitates, he is not sure about Lydia’s plan to do the act herself without the lion tamer. Nevertheless he orders the strong men to build up the cage in the arena. Lydia leaves saying: “Let me do it! I’ll perform without the lion tamer, I know how to work with those wild animals for sure”. “We will see about that”, the boss of the circus shouts at her. “I am the one who decides what’s going to happen in this circus tonight”. The boss of the circus seems to be very stressed. Lydia walks to a quite spot in the circus tent, somewhere behind a rack with costumes and some empty crates. Stijn has heard every detail of the conversation and sees Lydia leaving. He decides to follow her. Lydia rubs her body with some slimy substance. At first Stijn cannot see what it is she rubs on her body but then he notices the pot on which he can clearly read “grease”. “What are you doing?”, he asks Lydia. “I am rubbing my body with grease so I can crawl through those small holes and slits easier”, Lydia snarls at Stijn. “But entering a cage with wild lions having grease all over your body might be dangerous”, Stijn warns her. “Mind you own business”, Lydia snarls again. “Go and play outside with that little friend of yours and let me do the serious stuff”. Stijn understands Lydia is not going to change her mind. He leaves the tent running directly to the lion tamer’s trailer. Stijn knows he is in his bed so he starts knocking on his door. “You have to perform. You have to! Lydia is planning to enter the cage with grease all over he body!”, Stijn shouts desperately. “The lions will attack her when they smell that grease, it is very dangerous!”. Whatever Stijn shouts and knock it doesn’t have any effect, the lion tamer doesn’t show up and the doors stay closed ....

Film so far (16 min 27 sec)

Up until now there are 13 finished chapters:

Chapter 1: "Love of a monkey" (1 min 06 sec)


Chapter 2: "What a body" (1 min 31 sec)


Chapter 3: "What a show off" (1 min 29 sec)


Chapter 4: "Bla bla bla" (1 min 56 sec)


Chapter 5: "A secret?" (2 min 04 sec)


Chapter 6: "Incredible" (0 min 48 sec)


Chapter 7: "What is in the box?" (1 min 00 sec)


Chapter 8: "What does she want?" (0 min 41 sec)


Chapter 9: "Is she a witch?" (1 min 54 sec)


Chapter 10: "She is lying!" (1 min 47 sec)


Chapter 11: "Restless lions" (0 min 40 sec)


Chapter 12: "Lights on" (0 min 42 sec)


Chapter 13: "Let me do it" (0 min 42 sec)

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Status per May 12 2007



Stijn has not found Lydia. In the evening Stijn, Joep and Els return to the lions cage. The lion tamer is there also. He shakes and looks very nervous and frightened. The lions are still very restless. The lion tamer tells them again he is not going to perform this evening, he will not enter a cage with these restless wild animals. The evening show is about to start and the first spectators are entering the circus tent. A few moments later the big lights of the circus switch on. Thanks to this bright light Joep the monkey sees something is crawling in the cage. He lights his torch and then Stijn notices it too. It the snake Stijn and Joep saw in Lydia’s mysterious box….. this snake crawls through the lions cage. At that moment Lydia appears again. The snake escaped from her box and she searched for her snake all day. The snake crawls to Lydia. She takes the snake and puts it the bag she carries with her. She walks towards the lion tamer. “Don’t be a coward, tonight you have to perform”, Lydia shouts at him. “My spectacular act needs the lions and your support”. The fear and nerves are too much for the lion tamer and he collapses. “You are a sissy indeed”, Lydia shouts at him. After that, the lion tamer went to his bed, hiding under the blankets and shaking all over his body. Stijn and Els have told the boss of the circus what has happened today. The boss decides to have a look at the lion tamer’s condition. Lydia is there also. The boss of the circus tries to convince the lion tamer he has to perform tonight. “You have to perform, every competent lion tamer has to know how to calm down these animals”, the boss says. The lion tamer stays in his bed and doesn’t intend to perform tonight. “Now you can see with your own eyes what a coward he is, I told you before he was a sissy and does it in his pants every time he enters the cage”, Lydia says. “Watch your language missy”, the boss shouts at Lydia. “One more lie or a problem with that creepy snake of yours and you are fired”. “You wouldn’t dare! Your circus is nothing without me and my act, I am the only reason this circus still makes money”, Lydia shouts back. “Watch out mister, tonight a journalist of the paper is going to interview me, I could tell him what a sissy your lion tamer is and what a bunch of loosers the rest of the circus is”, she threatens.

Film so far (15 min 45 sec)

Up until now there are 12 finished chapters:

Chapter 1: "Love of a monkey" (1 min 06 sec)


Chapter 2: "What a body" (1 min 31 sec)


Chapter 3: "What a show off" (1 min 29 sec)


Chapter 4: "Bla bla bla" (1 min 56 sec)


Chapter 5: "A secret?" (2 min 04 sec)


Chapter 6: "Incredible" (0 min 48 sec)


Chapter 7: "What is in the box?" (1 min 00 sec)


Chapter 8: "What does she want?" (0 min 41 sec)


Chapter 9: "Is she a witch?" (1 min 54 sec)


Chapter 10: "She is lying!" (1 min 47 sec)


Chapter 11: "Restless lions" (0 min 40 sec)


Chapter 12: "Lights on" (0 min 42 sec)

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Status per May 5 2007



Els, Stijn and the wife of the boss of the circus are having breakfast in the kitchen of the cook. They are talking about Lydia’s new act and about the snake Stijn saw last night in Lydia’s mysterious box. The wife of the boss of the circus tells she wanted to jog this morning with Lydia, like every other morning, but she could not find Lydia anywhere. Usually she waits outside her trailer when she is ready to start running but this morning Lydia wasn’t there and she wasn’t in her trailer either. Stijn says he wants to know where Lydia has gone and leaves the kitchen, starting to search for Lydia. He asks everyone he meets about Lydia whereabouts but no one knows where Lydia has gone. When he arrives at the lion’s cage he also asks the lion tamer if he knows where Lydia could be found. The lion tamer doesn’t know about Lydia’s whereabouts either but he has other things to worry about. The lions seem be very restless this morning. Both lions are in one of the corners of the cage and are roaring all the time. One of the lions even tries to break the bars of the cage with his theeth. “If the lions stay so restless for the rest of the day I don’t perform with them tonight”, the lion tamer says. “No money in the world makes me perform in a cage with two restless lions”.

Film so far (15 min 02 sec)

Up until now there are 11 finished chapters:

Chapter 1: "Love of a monkey" (1 min 06 sec)


Chapter 2: "What a body" (1 min 31 sec)


Chapter 3: "What a show off" (1 min 29 sec)


Chapter 4: "Bla bla bla" (1 min 56 sec)


Chapter 5: "A secret?" (2 min 04 sec)


Chapter 6: "Incredible" (0 min 48 sec)


Chapter 7: "What is in the box?" (1 min 00 sec)


Chapter 8: "What does she want?" (0 min 41 sec)


Chapter 9: "Is she a witch?" (1 min 54 sec)


Chapter 10: "She is lying!" (1 min 47 sec)


Chapter 11: "Restless lions" (0 min 40 sec)