Pick n Mix Project (Instalment no.3 )

I spent the last 24 hours in the studio around lectures and seminars all that boring stuff redoing the storyboard, and for a very good reason. I had a dream about ted the teddybear doing a sketch called Singing in the rain. and thats where the 'meets james corden' from the previous instalment comes in...

so all that was the stuff you saw before basically with some stage directions and an extra frame for the intro.... I took out the basic camera shots because i can't really plan that until the audio is recorded... but then... i did this.. and the backgrounds took the majority of the time tbh... so... we have no1 the ceramic woman doing 'Goodmorning Baltimore' from Hairspray  infant of the New Amsterdam Theatre - and if you read any of the research i posted (don't worry i don't expect you to have) then you'll know that the New Amsterdam Theatre is a Building in Manhattan, just off Times Square, built in 1902-3 and was designed by the architecture firm of Henry Hertz and Hugh Talland. The Building was used as a movie theatre in the beginning of 1937 and closed in 1985. It was then leased by Walt Disney Co. and renovated in 1995-7 to be the flagship of Disney Theatrical Productions presentations on Broadway -  how cool is that! 

I was originally going to do her singing Taylor Swifts 'Love Story' as it includes a reference to Romeo and Juliet... and .. therefore shakespeare but i thought it was too much of a leap... so i just went with the whole Broadway thing...

The Second background was an art Nouveau style sky, with simply just clouds and swirls and Art nouveau-esque style. I don't know...I thought it'd be funny to do the FBI version of I believe i can fly or... possibly the numa numa song ... 

next we have the Russian Doll named Ronda (or something) singing Vanessa Carltons' "A thousand miles'  just because id love to see her run with no legs or arms, her head bopping of with every bounding leap to see another doll inside... but then i might just be weird. 

And lastly we get to my dream of 'Singing in the rain by Ted the Teddybear (yes i see how childish that name is..)

but how brilliant would it be that a bear sings the song with top hat and umbrella!?

this would be scripted of course... but on the plus side.... reality tv is completely unscripted or atlas partially unscripted. 

Pick n Mix Project (Installment no. 2)

So yesterday i posted about all my issues with the Pick n Mix project I'm currently doing and Ive gotta be honest, getting all that doubt and anger with myself out on paper... kind of.. really helped. I continued my night doing this basic storyboard for an intro.. hopefully explaining my story for the series I am to complete.. So... S1 E1 of Snowball Snowdown - and yes ill probably change that... because its corny af.

So this is the basic intro sequence on the left and to the right theres the basic shots ill need for the episode as any one person speaks.

So the premise is, its a game show.. kind of like... QI meets James Corden meets Mock the Week...  Basically, Snowball the ceramic Cat is like the Stephen Fry of the Animated world, he knows all, though he doesn't have a sidekick. Ted the Teddybear (all names are subject to change because clearly I can't be trusted to name anything... Hell i named my dog bossy and my plant oxygen.. ) and Bobo the Bronze Owl are regular Characters on the show, and team leaders who each have a guest on each episode as their team member. 

the shots I planned to use were al close up to mid shots of individuals or their pairs and the occasional  longshot to display the whole set for things like scores. I was playing with the ideas of panning shots for movement of characters so that the character can be on a walk cycle loop as the background moves as its meant to be animated in 2D. 

So.. 'Why is the script not included Tasha?' i hear you ask. Well.. ITS REALITY TV WHICH MEANS I DONT HAVE TO WRITE A SCRIPT!

best thing ever about reality tv with this project is, I can write questions and answers on cards and give it to the person who's going to be voicing Snowball and then give random answers to the other 4 voice actors some of the answers to be correct and others not.. but they won't know... and basically, sit everyone down. get people to just have a chat around the questions and then make jokes as they go... 20 minute episode with around 5 questions in total... simple... then all I would have to do is edit the sound track together, film the voice actors as they go as reference footage for movements, as well as lip-syncing.