Premise: A Small Evacuee - Script Draft 1

Notes: 

• I've decided that I'm not going to include their father in it, just keep it to Fred, Doris and Rosa. (The Dad only appears in the family photo in the first shot).
• Fred never speaks.
• I'm not sure if I should keep scene 5.

Possible names for this animation, for now I'm calling it 'A Small Evacuee':

• A Small Evacuee
• A Time Apart
• Torn Apart
• Twice Torn Apart (Because he was evacuated twice)

Next steps: Start drawing visuals/shots and design Rosa.

Collaboration: Final Script

Fantastic Voyage: Script + Poem + Animatic (No Sound)

I haven't recorded the poem narrated yet so the timings are out of place but this does a good job visually explaining what I am going to do. I still need to find background music that can run in the background without drowning out the narrator.

Final Script

Last script upload now with shots matching the animatic.

Script Draft 6...

@Phil Script Draft 5

Script to Screen OGR 2

I haven't finished my OGR, I have the mother and robot characters and the cellar set left still to design as well as the storyboard left to do... I am going to try and finish this all by Monday.

@Phil Script Draft 3

Taking on board your last feedback, I have put a years space between the daughter's death and the robots creation and have conveyed this with calendar input, the daughter isn't so depressed she's angry and had enough. 

Also what would make a better ending, a diary entry from the daughter when she was a kid as a hint as to what made the girl kill herself when she got older or the diary entry we watched her write at the beginning or is this giving everything away???

@Phil Script Draft 2

@Phil Script Draft 1

Final Step Outline

Script will be based on this:

1. Mother working in lab/cellar on robot, camera zooms out of room to outside the closed door that has a do not disturb sign.
2. Daughter holding diary in front of the front door looks opposite at the sign and *sighs* and sits on the bottom of the stairs crying, then just suddenly stops. She begins to write in the diary when she's done she puts the diary down on the stair table and gets up in a trance, she walks out the room but the camera doesn't follow instead it looks at the diary and then the clock on the wall. *fades to black*.
3. At the park, the daughter is on the edge of a mini dock at a lake where the daughter falls in.
4. *Few days later*
5. Back in the cellar we watch the mother struggle to concentrate on her work because of her guilt, we watch her go to the stairs and sit where the daughter was, she notices the diary on the table in the corner, she takes it and hugs the diary. The mother jumps up with an idea and rushes down to the cellar to the robot she was working on in the first scene.
6. In the cellar she scans every part of the diary and some software on the computer extracts quotes and forms a speech database. The mother programmes the robot and it comes to life, she begins to ask questions she knows the answer to thanks to the diary. The short conversation starts off sweet and quickly turns deep, the robot storms out back to the lake, the mother doesn't realise straight away what's happening she just stands in the cellar staring into space deep in thought before realising what's about to happen.
7. Back at the lake, the robot is on the edge like the daughter was, the mother is on the path not near the robot, she doesn't say anything, the robot begins to quote from the suicide note before watching the robot fall in from the mother's pov.
8. Final shot is a slow zoom on the diary.

Script to Screen Reading

Reading 'Film Directing Shot by Shot' I found some useful stuff in there about storyboarding and how I'm going to do this project, in chapter 5 it talks about five phases of pre-viz before producing a proper film so I've done this post to jot down some notes.

Phase One: Scriptwriting

• Memory and research (photoboards/influence maps)
• Connections (flow of scenes)
• Sound and music
• Sketchbook/Thumbnails

Phase Two: Production Design

• Script breakdown
• Pictorial Design of film's environment, set design, props, characters etc.
• Continuity Design (composition of shots and staging of action)
• Location scouting
• Illustrated script (sketches and pictures alongside script)
• Overview Meeting (In my case self reviewing)

Phase 3: Script Analysis

• Shot plan
• Storyboard

And once I have the story board I can begin the animatic and after that the CG pre-viz.

Screen to Script - Beauty and the Beast

Learning to use adobe story for the first time the task for this lesson was to take a clip from youtube and reverse engineer it back into a script. I chose to do a clip from Disney's Beauty and the beast.