Very quickly want to jot down the scenario.
Is the main gist ... love? diversity? even weird carnie-circus people can find someone? etc...?
No. The whole point of the exercise is a simple squashed-clown-fat-lady gag, couched in a sort of overcoming-even-the-most-difficult-of-circumstances to achieve a happy ending.
Begin with hands of a person playing an amazing organ, but only funny circus music coming out.
Pan back to see bearded lady organist, perhaps circus canopy empty church.
Initially feet x 3 down aisle (half man half woman first, then strong man, and perhaps a clown ... or?). Followed quickly by noise of mass movement and previously empty pews are full (kind of instant).
Wedding march (still with circusy sound) begins and monkey-flower girl throwing popcorn from stripey container leads the way (could do a few acrobatics along the way), heavy quaking footsteps (King Kong style) alarm on congregations face, then relief when big bride arrives.
Mild panic ...no flowers, magician(giving bride away) produces from sleeve, after 3 tries - scarves, bunny, flowers.
Bride continues to proceed with magician, but wedged, pews and people all lean away to make room, suction sound and then POP as she gets through and reels forward, (leaving magic behind) on ridiculously high shoes.
Jumping to see and be high enough, someone brings the little clown groom a set of steps, climbs and is at happy level (biggest smile spreads on face).
Open-mouth clown-priest turning head towards each ...do you take this... little clown overcome with tears, finds BIG polkadot hanky, shakes it out, blows nose loudly, where to put? Bride gently takes it away and deposits it in ample bosom.
Clown head priest continues, ring? More panic, where (perhaps this can be extended depending on timing)? Eventually found, about to put on finger, overbalances, falls against bride, together they teeter, backwards, forwards, back again, then straight forward squashing little clown. Initially turning round and round to find. Locates and peels away from body, squished flat, shakes out a little - very floppy, tries again, lifts an arm, drops, then another. Finally, perhaps someone whispers in her ear...removes little groom's red nose, holds clown (real) nose to mouth and gently blows, popping/inflating bodyparts, bit by bit.
You may now kiss the bride - drum roll. The kiss.
Great applause,cannons, fireworks, tickertape etc...
Little ankle bump (in air) by clown-groom as newlyweds proceed, happily married, back down the aisle, followed by happy crowd.
Last scene, huge woman and tiny clown, cart and mini trike, peddling madly, blissfully into sunset.
(basic storyboard and character possibilities on the way)
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Very cool, there may be a few things that need a little bit of ironing out but I think this would be a great basis for the storyboard. We'll need to start thinking about the music and sound fx early on, timing will be an important element and the music will somewhat dictate parts of the timing. We kinda have two choices for the music, find something royalty free or have someone clever throw us something together (really quickly). If we can find some royalty free music that suits our needs then it will obviously be the best option, it's never a good idea to rely on outside sources. Any voices will also need to be recorded early on which shouldn't be to difficult to get done if a few of us spend one or two sessions really attacking it.
Before we start thinking about that stuff we need to get this storyboard (and animatic) off the ground as fast as possible, I probably won't be a huge help with this part of the process but I'll still chip in wherever I can, does anyone want to volunteer to be lead storyboard artist? If one person can take the lead they'll be able to distribute segments around to the others.
Whilst some people are working on the storyboard others may want to begin on character design, I really liked the characters that Annie drew up and it would be great if she had some time to do some more..... ^___^
I think anmac has done a fantastik job pulling it together, finding a story. There is plenty to work with, well done.
that cipher 666 persons pretty smart too
I had nothing as you all know.
I can give it a go the animatik but I know a girl who is better at it!!!
Lets see what anmac has got first
there is a lot of stuff in the story but that may mean short scenes that are manageable
Can’t start till thurs afternoon maybe if I have a go then figgy can fix it
im thinking 1950 puppet animation in the style of the book anmak brought in, to belt through the animation
Very encouraging and constructive comments, thanku. Agree on need for sound as quickly as possible, ironing, clever animatic figgy girl and (of course) 1950's style. Have v. rough storyboard together, but will make more legible before uploading.
hEY!
Rob had a collection of CD's/DVD's at Hamilton with a tone of royalty free sound files. I know cos I've got copies of them somewhere, I'm jus diggin in the crates now.... I'll keep you posted if I find em.
pEACE!
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