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Sunday, 28 December 2008

Ewan's Treatment



So the first shot is a close-up of a fishing rod and reel, and then the next part is all one scene. The characters are huffy and aren't looking at one another. After a while, the man breaks the silence by picking up his rod and hat and storming out. He's looking out for a reaction however and when his wife slumps he gets a clue she's upset and comes back to give her a kiss on the head.
So the woman is left alone and we get a glimpse of her treasure, a hula dancer. Her musings lead her to look out the window and her eye is drawn to their overgrown ancient car.
The man is climbing an enormous wall now, the wind whipping him until he finally reaches the top. Meanwhile the woman is excitedly packing her bag. She leaves the man's toothbrush behind and lonely on the shelf as she does so.
We see the man enjoying his fishing, perched precariously at the top of the wall. A shadowy threat looms beneath the surface of the sea.
(Ithink I'll plop in another quick cut back to the woman to push the tension at this point)
The monster explodes out of the water, the lure in its jaws, while the man reels in the line furiously. A huge wave sends him over the edge and he is left dangling. The string breaks and he falls down to earth.
The wife, caught in the act of escaping, runs to see what the noise was and stands in the doorway, shocked at the scene. The man, unhurt by the fall, runs and embraces his wife, happy to be alive and to see her, but after looking around, the house is half bare. Suddenly, he spots their car, full of luggage. He goes out to examine it. His wife is distressed at the unwanted confrontation and closes the door until she hears the engine starting. He fixed it for her! She runs out to join him. The final shots are of the jiggling hula dancer and the lonely toothbrush.

Saturday, 27 December 2008

Haha!

There appears to be a few drawings missing and the pans dinnae work, but enjoy!

Wednesday, 24 December 2008

Ewan's Update

Finished the bastarding animatic!

Although intimidated by the quality, thoroughness and length of Andy's post I shall endevour to press ahead with my update. Anyways, it's not how long it is... yada yada. I plan to send my animatic to Donald and Alan and then find a good editor to give it some Rythm, before sending it to my long suffering composer, oh yeah and maybe posting it here too. ^_^ Peace!

Wednesday, 17 December 2008

Andy: Blog 2 Post 1

Here is an update on what Andy The Animator has been up to:
1) I finished my animatic a few weeks ago...

2) I've arranged for a beautiful young lady, Miss Darryl Ryznar, to "act" in my film, which I hope to be shooting in Edinburgerland at the start of Term 2 (circa Jan 6th). [Keep your hands off her Mike!] I've arranged for another beautiful young lady, Annalise Wimmer, to get me footage of her Beagle in Hungary for my film during the holidays... (Why has this blog suddenly turned into "Compliments R Us"?)

3) I'm trying to instigate a New Wave movement in Scottish cinema, so I'm going to get all experimental on my film: Part of this involves recording the dialogue in Finnish. [Don't complain you racist people: why should a bunch of scribbles on 1000s of pieces of paper that create the illusion of movement be speaking in English? The drawings by themselves don't speak any language, so how can you justify them having any particular language or accent?] (The main reason my film will be in Finnish is because it sounds cool!)
(While I'm dishing out compliments I might as well tell you that it is the lovely Erica Weiste who is going to record the dialogue for me. For those that don't know, I lent my expert scanning skills to Erica's graduation film "The Gardener" last year, and it was shown in the Kettupäivät (Fox Days) Film Festival in Helsinki at the start of November).



4) I've got my essay deadline on Jan 7th; but I'm not doing any of the important work that I really should be doing. Instead of that I am whittling away the days until Term 2 by watching a lot of films.
- You should track down "Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana" & "Calamari Union" by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki cos they're really good (in a super strange New Wave / non-conventional kind of way)!
- Alfred Hitchcock's "ROPE" was filmed in a really interesting way. ROPE is about a couple of homosexual murderers, but you're not allowed to refer to them as homosexuals - you have to refer to their sexuality as "it"... The film has Jimmy Stewart from that Christmassy film about the guy who wanted to kill himself & Farley Granger from that tennis film about 2 train passengers who arrange a couple of murders).
- "The Exorcist" was lame; and "The Shining" was really boring...
- "Wall-E" was rubbish; it's a shame there's nothing else in the mainstream worthy of winning animation awards these days...
- "Quantum of Solace" was the most pointless film I've seen in a VERY VERY long time!!!

5) I set up my own blog yesterday called "One Man And His Blog: Rambling Through Fields of Animation Since 2005" at www.armacpherson.blogspot.com
You should go visit it and read the essay that got three A's...

I think that's me caused enough trouble for one blog... I could add something abusive about Owen, but I'm going to behave for my first blog post on "Mike's Desk"!
In fact, while I'm dishing out so many compliments, I might as well say that I can't argue with Owen's comment on a Facebook photo of him and Paul: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=172221&id=299400241&ref=mf

Tuesday, 16 December 2008

Ewan


Just workin' on my animatic at present, which looks a little bit like this -