Storyboard

Storyboard -

Equipment List

Equipment Needed

Set- 

Cardboard
Paint
Paint Brushes
Scissors
Black Biro
Ruler
Black Permanent Marker


Characters-

Polymer Clay from Hobbycraft
Knife for the ridges in Caspers body
Cheese grater for Caspers hair
Pin for Normans hair
Buttons for the eyes
Paper and pen for the mouths
Scissors to cut out the mouth movements
Paper clips for the body


Shooting-

Lights
Camera
SD card
Fully Charged battery
Charger
Tripod
Voice Recorder for the narrator and the voice overs


Post Production-

SD card reader
Laptop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Hard drive to save the finished video on to

Script

Script

Casper and Norman

Casper- I can’t wait to get some sweets

Norman- me too Casper

Casper- come on Norman, lets go trick or treating

Norman-Okay, I'm excited

Knock knock- only show the bottom half of the other characters

Trick or treat!!

The boys knocked on the first door. A tall old lady answered the door. Oh hello boys, you scared me a bit there. Take a few sweets my children.

Thank you Mrs. Peters, said Norman.

Enjoy yourselves and don’t go scaring any more old ladies tonight.

She was really scary, wasn’t she Norman? Questioned Casper.

Yeah! Why was she so tall, replied Norman?

Trick or treat!!

Boo! Help yourselves boys, before all the other children get their mucky little paws on them.

Thank you for the sweets Mr. Draco, said Casper.

You’re very welcome boys, now run along.

The boys argued whose turn it was to knock next as the walked towards the house at the end of the street.

Trick or treat!!

This was no ordinary neighbour. We are all changing, my children. Turn around murmured the skeleton. The boys were shaking in their boots. I want to go home Casper, Norman whispered.

Casper and Norman scare fully walked home.

They knocked on Normans door. Normans mother answered the door, but she had become a skeleton too, in fact the whole family had, as had the entire street. Norman turned to look at Casper, but he had already gone, Casper was not real, and neither was this story. This was just a nightmare which Norman created in his sleep.

Secondary Research

Secondary Research- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTFI7_tAgm4 This video really stood out to me and has inspired me. It looks very professional and the creator has made it look very easy to make, I would like to make my animation in the same way, with the wire and the clay. I am going to attempt to make mouth movements too.

After watching several animations that have already been produced, I have decided that I will be making my animation out of polymer clay and wire structures, this is what was used to make Wallace and Gromit and creature comforts etc. I have previously worked with this material and I found it easy to work with and easy to modify for each individual shot. Despite this, it was quite fiddly and the clay got stuck to my hands a lot, which was quite an undesirable feelings. This does not change my mind however, I think the end results look great and it is fun to make.

After finding out what my friends and family would be interested in, I will be making my animation based on my idea 3. I have found out that my audience would be interested in an animation about Halloween as it fits the season nicely too. I will have background sounds, narration and dialogue too. I will be recording the sounds myself, apart from the instrumental sounds, I will find out if I have permission to use an eerie soundtrack. I will also use a green screen, as I like the appearance of realistic scenes and cartoon characters.

Three Concepts

Idea 1- two identical twins are invited to a party, one of the siblings has a boyfriend, although a deluded friend decides to lock the sibling with a boyfriend in a closet, when the sister and her sisters boyfriend are downstairs drinking, the boyfriend quickly comes on to what he thinks is his girlfriend.

Idea 2- a young boy was desperate for friends, he found a five pound note in his pocket and wrote his number on the note with a instructions saying- ring me, occasionally people would ring and would talk to him about what they were spending the fiver on.

Idea 3- two boys decided to go trick or treating for Halloween, they dress up and take a pot for their sweets, as they knock on the doors around their house, their neighbours were willing give them both a handful of sweets. After the third door, a skeleton answers the door, and tells the boys that everyone is changing, losing their skin and guts, the boys just laughed and assumed he was playing a trick on them, the man told the boys to turn around and look at the neighbourhood, everyone was the same, the boys ran home, one of the boys mothers answered the door, but she had changed too, everyone had changed apart from the boys friend, who was in fact the only normal looking one, but he wasn’t real.  

Final Idea

I will be making a Claymation animation, in the style of Aardman Animations, as I am inspired by their work. As it is October 2015, I will be producing an animation with the genre of horror for the Halloween season. I will be making my animation out of Polymer clay.

I will not be holding my camera during the filming of this production, I will use a tripod and I will take the photographs as and when I need to, this will benefit me as I will be filming and producing this animation on my own therefore I will not be able to hold the camera and move the characters around, whilst remembering where I last had the camera placed.

My animation will be targeted at a young demographic, despite it being horror themed it will not be frightening to the point where it will terrify the children.

During the postproduction I will use a fade to black or fade to white film transition, however if I do not feel that it works well with my animation then I will try something else, perhaps a film dissolve.

Inspirations