Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Some b/g info...

The setting: the school

An all boy’s privet school – The look of the school is upper class, so you would think that the school nurse would be well qualified and not some psycho guy wearing a dress. It has good students, who get good grades, and for some reason ever since the school nurse came to work there, it has had of on the lowest sick/fatality rate of any school. It seems that the students of this school just don’t want to get sick for some odd reason.

The nurse: Main Character

He seems to be not quite right in the head. All his life he has wanted to help people, but somehow ends up making things worst. It is un-known as to how he passed nursing school, but it might have involved a freak accident that put his teacher out for the rest of the year, and for some reason all the class records when with him. And how he got the job as a nurse at an expensive school like his is still unknown to most. He has good intentions, and really isn’t all that bad. Because the previous school nurse was a woman and loved by all the students, the new nurse wanted to be more like her, I guess this explains the short skirt, or maybe it is because he just likes the way it looks like when he spins around in a circle.

Rough sketches




Visual research for Idea three: Nurse Boy (3)




Æon Flux -
Peter Chung
A 2d animation that I watched when I will little, this might explaine why I am so messed up, I guess.. I love the clean look of the animation and the movement of the character.




My intent and central themes...

  • To create a short 2D animnated film.
  • It is to be a funny animnation - more dark humor unlike something like 'The Simpson'.
  • I want to make people laugh.
  • I wish to test my animnations stills - to see how much I have learnet.

Questions to ask:

  • Which ending do you like?
  • Would you like to see a different ending all together?
  • What other ways do you think the nurse could ‘heal’ the students?
  • Do you like the ways he has at the moment?

A first draft treatment.

Scrip/Walkthrough for Nurse Boy

Scene: The class room – the weather outside is nice and sunny – it is later afternoon.

The shot opens with a wide shot of the class room with students sitting there studying as all good students do. There is nothing out of the ordinary looking about this class room.

Student one: “Cough”

Hearing one of the students cough the rest of the students in the class room look at him in alarm, they look like the end of the world is coming.

The students begin to look around – as if they are waiting for something.

(Idea – maybe the weather changes and it becomes a thunder storm outside)

The shot changes to the windows which face into the hall of the school building. There is a figure that is moving along the hall way.

Just then the door is kicked in and there standing there is the not quite right school nurse.

The students in the room start to freak out and start running around the room.

The school nurse walks briskly up to student one.

School nurse: “Someone needs some healing” (or something corny like that)

He pins student one to the wall and beings ‘Healing’ the rest of the class.

(This part of the scrip needs a lot work and I know this)

Ideas so far:

  • He throws smaller needles into the face of other students- they fall to the ground screaming in pain.
  • Students that try to get out of the window – he throws banges at them and makes raps them like a mummy.
  • The nurse pores pills into a students throat and they froth at the mouth.
  • Uses big band-aid and cover the students mouth so that they can’t breath.

Ending one

The school nurse walks back to student one and takes the big needle from the wall and student one falls, when he student one gets back up the school nurse stabs him with his giant needle and pumps him full of the stang liquid.

Student one fills up with the liquid and more or less pops, sending parts of himself around the class room.

The school nurse stands there with a proud look on his face.

School Nurse: “All is right with the world” (or another corny line)

The school nurse walks out of the scene.

There are students lying around the class room half dead, and just then one of them moves a little trying to get up.

Just as the student does this a small needle comes flying across the scene and hits that student on the head – the student falls back down to the ground.

End

Ending two

The school nurse walks back to student one and takes the big needle from the wall and student one falls, when he student one gets back up the school nurse turns around and stabs another student with his giant needle and pumps him full of the stang liquid.

This student pop and is scatted across the room.

(I need to figure out how the nurse leaves the room)

Student one is left standing there, with a puzzled look on his face.

Student one: “Cough”

End

First draft synopsis: (is taken from a back post)

The main character is a high school nurse who is a little bit over-the-top when it comes to helping people. This makes the students of the school very nervous about being ill, or becoming sick. This will be a short 2D animated film. The story will start off with a classroom full of students quietly working, when one of them coughs just a little. All heads turn to that student with expressions of panic and horror on their faces. The door is suddenly thrown open and standing there is the school nurse with a big needle in his hands (and lots of other first aid paraphernalia on him). He walks up the student who has just coughed and says a really corny line like, “Someone needs to be healed”. He starts throwing needles around and pills everywhere as he tries to treat all the students in the class room. While this is happening, all the students are freaking out, trying to get away. But in the end all the students are all over the room, either with needles sticking out of them or with foam coming out of their mouths (from being given too many pills), while the school nurse has a very happy look on his face – the expression of someone who has done the right thing well. The film concludes with another corny line, such as, “All’s right with the world”, as the nurse walks out of the room, with everyone in it not looking all that healthy.

Storyboards + Flow

Flowchart/Flow of Animation

Starts of quite, good students working → Student coughs this leads to mayhem begins →school nurse come into the class room and stats the mayhem → Lots of gore and ‘healing’ → after the school nurse leaves the class room is left in chaos.

Storyboard - Note this is only a first draft, not a final storyboard in anyway. I still have many ideas, some of which I might put into the animation and some that I might not.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Final Concept Task

I express my idea as a ‘Post Secret'.