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. 1)

So the Pick n Mix project started on Monday, the third - and yes I had to check the date...

so. what have I done so far? well.. i struggled for ideas up until saturday. I spoke to Kathy and Derek (my lecturers) and they suggested branching off from my cards and coming up with something related to the cards but not exactly true to the words I was provided.

so I shall explain.. My last post was about the Art nouveau remake piece, which was the first instalment of this project, we were provided on the 3rd with a further three cards with random words on them. My cards read:

Style: Art Nouveau

Place: New York

Show: Reality tv

Character: Ceramic knick knacks. 

So everything was going fine until the characters, thats where all my ideas stopped and I hit, not a mental wall... more like the project was this bottomless pit and the only way to escape was to come up with an amazing idea not only my lecturers would like but my class would too. so... it was hopeless, and I'm scared of the dark, and failing, so I got myself into this downward spiralling anxiety ridden project. 

So, when in such a predicament you speak to friends and teachers for ideas

nothing. 

I literally had nothing. it had been 5 days since the class and usually id be full of ideas, incapable of just choosing one. but this time i was done for. there was nothing. my house mates tried to help but even then.. it wasn't working. 

I literally gave up on saturday night. sat down, watched tv ate dinner with some housemates and chilled.

epiphanies happen at the most random of times. ill tell you that for sure. id ben straining my brain for an idea for 6 days straight and id even tried to pretend like i was chilled and not thinking about it in order for something to come to me, but it wasn't until id literally given up all hope and just said i won't even bother, ill wing it in a week, that i realised something I read. 

You see id done loads of research, on each one of my cards and it was a single line of text in pages and pages of reading that i remembered something along the lines of 'Reality Tv is any program which is partially or completely unscripted' - you know what that means:

Chat shows  - Late night with Seth Meyers

- The Graham Norton Show

- The Tonight Show staring Jimmy Fallon

- The Ellen DeGeneres Show

- The Late Late Show with James Corden 

They all count!

Comedy Tv - QI

- 8 out of 10 Cats

 -  Mock the week

- As Yet Untitles

This is where the ideas started flowing.

So heres the research bible so far :)

Proof of Concept and research into Reality tv:

 

Ceramic Knick Knack research

Art Nouveau in New York Research

This is when i started brainstorming ideas and had a brain melt. Nothing worked. Nothing Fit. Nothing seemed just right. There were ideas but not one that I actually wanted to produce. 

So, i continued my research into how id animate, what colours i should use to display certain moods or time periods.  Then into character design, hoping that if I came up with a character I liked then maybe I could construct an animation around the character...