Script

As part of the project we have to write about 3 pages of script of one of the episodes to show what it might be like. Surprisingly the lecturers said that nothing needed changing...not even any advice...


Scene 1 EXT. Town Square (MIDDAY)

It is sunny, just before midday at the 'Festival of Fast Food'.

A large stage dominates the center of the paved square, with a judges table atop; draped in immaculate white linen.

There is a lot of noise coming from the bustling crowds that have turned out for today's event.

Wooden stands of rival fast food diners line the walls of the square.

Each stand has it's own grill and service area with it's logo adorned in fabric above the stand.

GREG, HEEMA and ERNIE arrive at the festival with boxes of food and drink.

They find most rival diners are already set up and have begun to serve the eager festival goers.

The trio quickly find the Quick Stop stand.

                            GREG
                        (arrogantly)
                OK. You guys get set up here...
                I'm going to check out the 
                competition.
Heema and Ernie look to each other and give disapproving glances as Greg walks off.

                            HEEMA
                      (annoyed sarcasm)
                Sure...no problem.


They head around the back of the stand and Heema unlocks it.
They start to furiously unpack and prepare the stand to serve the customers at the festival.

Meanwhile, Greg is meandering around the square trying the different foods from all of the stands.

He spends almost 15 minutes filling his cheeks and his arms with all sorts of different types of fast food.

He glares at each of the stands' employees as he does so.

Greg returns to find large queues have formed outside the Quick Stop stand.

The crowd is waiting in anticipation for the shutters to open.

Greg nips around the back of the stand just as Heema and Ernie finish setting up.

                            HEEMA
                Greg we're about ready to go. 
                We could use your help up here!

Greg is behind the stand and has hold of 2 sauce bottles; chilli and mustard.

                            GREG
                         (snapping)
                One minute!

He looks round into the stand to see Ernie and Heema finishing cleaning all of the equipment in preparation.

Neither see Greg.

He sneaks back behind the stand and inspects the sauce bottles.

Greg then opens them both and mixes the two together, whilst looking over his shoulder ensuring no one can see what he is doing.

Screwing the top back on; Greg steps into the stand and hands the bottle over to Ernie.

Ernie looks at the bottle with confusion. He begins to ask Greg  about the sauce.

                            ERNIE
                         (confused)
                What sauce is thi...?
Greg purposefully cuts him short, slapping his hands together.

                            GREG
                      (with authority)
                Lets get this stand open! Heema
                you'll cook the food and Ernie; 
                you'll take the money and prepare 
                it for the customers to take away...

Greg pops his collar and grins.
                            GREG

                ...I'll keep check of the stock
                behind the stand.

Greg steps out of the stand.

He sits on a box and leans against the back of the stand and relaxes.

Heema pokes her head out, she sees Greg sitting on the box with his eyes closed.

She scowls at him and spins around, walking back into the stand.

Greg laughs to himself.

                            GREG
                          (cocky)
                Now just to wait for the 
                complaints to roll in. Ha!

A short while passes and Greg begins to hear customers praising the sauce.

He immediately sits up and leans his head towards the back door of the stand.

Greg's face glazes over as he listens intently.

                            CUSTOMER
                (mumbling, mouth full of food)
                Mmm! This sauce is delicious. 
                What's in it?

Ernie squeezes some onto his finger and tastes it.
                            ERNIE

                Hmm...It tastes like chilli and
                mustard! I guess I must have 
                mixed them by accident.

Ernie looks around to see all of the customers commenting on how great the sauce tastes.

Greg hears Ernie say this and quickly becomes angry.

Knowing that he created this sauce and he's getting no credit for it.

Ernie looks across to Heema, through the now smokey air and shrugs his shoulders with a smile.

She smiles back.
                            HEEMA
                 Who'd have thought?

Greg wriggles and rushes to get up, but his bum falls into the box.

Leaving him stuck and Ernie to claim the creation of the sauce.

Front Cover Design

I am deciding to print my book at 10x8, as a landscape book. I also changed my mind about binding it the way I was going to. I am going to ring bind it so that the pages are more easily visible and the book won't be forced to want to close on itself.

I think that this is a pretty good size for a ring bound book as some of the landscape space will be taken up by the spiral spine, leaving a good area to work with. I am also making my front cover myself with an image on card and the covering it with sticky back cellophane to give it a shiny and more professional finish.

Here are some designs for my front cover

Here was my first design, I just took the front of the diner and added a thick black border all the way around the outside. However it looks a little empty and needs something more interesting in the background.

This is when I was going to perfect bind it, I left a white edge to wrap around the spine.

Here is my final design I think. I left it quite blank near the left edge as this is where it will overlap and not be seen, also where the holes for the spiral spine will be.

I thought it would be a good idea to have a main front cover to show the main area where the action will be taking place and the main characters involved. Then to have a title page just inside with the title and "By Robert Beard"instead of trying to fit it on the front cover and having it blend in with the background.

These are my two designs. 

Rockpool

A long time since my last post but I'll make this one relatively brief, since it's about an idea that I'm not actually using for my final piece.


The idea is about a rock pool and and old crab who was washed up a long time ago, and I took my main inspiration from octonauts...

Synopsis


Mr. Wilber is an old and wise crab who was washed up into a rock pool many moons ago. He tells the young sea shrimps tales of his time out in the open ocean; battling monstrous creatures and meeting beautiful maidens. The young ones he is telling the stories to re-enact them in a flash back style and change their clothes to fit with the story. 


Here are some character designs I began with, I didn't have a lot of time left so I picked the ones I thought fitted with the idea and began to clean them up and colour them

Here are the finished character designs, with a little bio each

Changing my Style

After doing some sketches I developed my ideas and the style seems to have developed along with it!

It's now more like the style of Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom, just not quite as simplified.

Here are the designs for Willow, the main female character.

I think I chose the top left because it is the most suiting to the style and story. The others just look a little scary and wouldn't be suitable for a the series or a younger audience.

Here I did some line work and body development, with the left hand idea being the almost final design. I also changed her ear.

and these are some colour tests, I chose the right hand one. I like the muted pastel colours and think it looks natural for the story line

Some Greasy Characters

Well here are the main characters for my Fast Food Restaurant Mockumentary idea.  I have a total of 6 that would make regular appearances throughout the series.


It's going to be a very big post so I'm going to split it up into a couple of smaller ones!


Here goes...
For this post I'll show you my developmental work and my chosen designs.
As I said I have 6 main characters, a manager, checkout operator, fryer worker, new starter and 2 drive thru workers, and here they are.

 So...top left we have the manager, I drew her head and was very happy with it so I experimented with her body to suit her personality and face. 


Top right is the checkout operator, I was overall very happy with the design straight away and only changed her trousers to a skirt in the final design.


Middle left is the fryer worker, I was trying to capture a dumb looking character who quite clearly eats in too often. I think I achieved it with the bottom of the 3 characters and you can see in the final designs below.


Middle right is the new starter, I wanted a young guy for this, just out of school and innocent looking. I was going to go with the top of the 3 designs but decided that the middle one would suit the character better, looking more like a teenager than a young child.


The bottom 2 are the drive thru workers, the left is the fatter of the 2, slightly high looking and will do anything for the right price. For the one on the right I went with the head shown here originally but later decided to change it to the top right of the 4 designs, as you can see below in the final concepts.  The two go together like dumb and dumber!


As mentioned above, here are my final designs in the style I mentioned in my previous post.