>>94858143Okay.
The whole short would have been about the actual science team, working together, and Mei being close with some or all of them. The team is established, you get to warm up to some of them even, definite fanart/fanfic bait.
Then, there would be some conflict surrounding the anomaly they're supposed to be studying- it causes an accident, or it almost gets someone killed, in a way that none of the characters are able to be aware of at the time- and Mei saves them in a moment of improvisation. Since they never noticed that it was the anomaly that almost killed one of them, it gets to flit about at the end of the last scene while everyone is happy. I'm keeping "anomaly" purposefully vague because let's face it it's probably just global warming but let's say it's represented in the short by strong, sinister gusts of wind or whatever, it's got to have a presence, that's the important part.
Then the short ends where the short Blizzard made begins: with the scientists settling everything down and preparing for hibernation. There's a time lapse where you see the effects of the anomaly (bigger gusts of wind or WHATEVER, the point being the presence it had before becomes even stronger) wearing down on the power supply, and you see everyone die one by one. Mei comes out and shit all her friends are dead, which the audience might actually care about because they spent about five minutes hanging out with them instead of just seeing one guy's disembodied hand on Mei's shoulder.
Then it cuts to the scene where Mei finds Winston's recording, and the camera trails back, showing hints of how Mei made it out of the research base.
Basically show the parts that aren't ALREADY spelled out in the backstory we know of her. Everyone already knows that everyone dies and she makes an ice gun to help her get out of the station. But we never knew who the team was and what they were studying, exactly. That's what the short should have been about.
