For our pre-production module we were giving 4 random cards. One containing a character, one had a setting, another had a genre and the last had an artists name on it that we were to use as our style inspiration. We had to use these cards and come up with a film or TV show incorporating all 4. My cards were:
Character: Street Sweeper
Setting: Road Side Tea Stop
Genre: Panel Game Show
Artist: Laurent De Brunhoff
Lets start with the artist. Laurent De Brunhoff is the son of the creator of the Babar series. He went on to write and illustrate many of the books and TV series over a 60 year career.
I was fairly happy with this style. The simplicity and colours are great for animation. Although I had hoped for something a little bit more challenging.
The genre: This I was not happy about. I was really looking forward to writing an interesting short film for this project but a panel game seemed very boring. And something that would never actually be animated due to the fact that panel games are not scripted. They are generally just made up of celebrities asking questions.
However when I merged the Babar style and idea of talking, human like animals with the panel game format things got a bit more interesting. Yes you would never animate celebrities answering questions but if they were animals then you would have no choice but to animate them.
This got me thinking about why animals would be answering questions and what those questions would be. Who would want to watch animals answering questions?
I decided on a game show, aimed at children, where animals answer facts about themselves and other animals. It could be both entertaining and educational.
But I still had to incorporate a street sweeper and a road side tea stop. I did some research about animals that clean such as pilot fish that clean sharks etc and decided on the oxpecker bird. Oxpecker's are the little bird that live on the back of rhinos and buffaloes cleaning them of parasites and tics.
Using a due of a rhino and an oxpecker gave me an African theme so when it came to choosing a setting I chose the African plains and my set, the road side tea stop, would be the animal equivalent - a watering hole.
Now that I had my concept the next stage was to create a presentation and pitch my idea to James Henry, a professional television script writer.
Character: Street Sweeper
Setting: Road Side Tea Stop
Genre: Panel Game Show
Artist: Laurent De Brunhoff
Lets start with the artist. Laurent De Brunhoff is the son of the creator of the Babar series. He went on to write and illustrate many of the books and TV series over a 60 year career.
I was fairly happy with this style. The simplicity and colours are great for animation. Although I had hoped for something a little bit more challenging.
The genre: This I was not happy about. I was really looking forward to writing an interesting short film for this project but a panel game seemed very boring. And something that would never actually be animated due to the fact that panel games are not scripted. They are generally just made up of celebrities asking questions.
However when I merged the Babar style and idea of talking, human like animals with the panel game format things got a bit more interesting. Yes you would never animate celebrities answering questions but if they were animals then you would have no choice but to animate them.
This got me thinking about why animals would be answering questions and what those questions would be. Who would want to watch animals answering questions?
I decided on a game show, aimed at children, where animals answer facts about themselves and other animals. It could be both entertaining and educational.
But I still had to incorporate a street sweeper and a road side tea stop. I did some research about animals that clean such as pilot fish that clean sharks etc and decided on the oxpecker bird. Oxpecker's are the little bird that live on the back of rhinos and buffaloes cleaning them of parasites and tics.
Using a due of a rhino and an oxpecker gave me an African theme so when it came to choosing a setting I chose the African plains and my set, the road side tea stop, would be the animal equivalent - a watering hole.
Now that I had my concept the next stage was to create a presentation and pitch my idea to James Henry, a professional television script writer.
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